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Another War College speech lie - "full sovereignty"

Wed May 26, 2004 at 05:42:32 AM PDT

Blair gets it; Bush does not... See [and this from the Daily Telegraph (!)]:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/26/wirq26.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05 26/ixnewstop.html

"US snubs Blair call for Iraqi veto on attacks"

Guardian version: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1224870,00.html

"Blair jumps the gun on Iraqi veto"

In other words, "full sovereignty" means the US still does what it wants in Iraq after 6/30. What does real sovereignty mean to these knuckleheads? "Super-sized full sovereignty"?

"Naturally enhanced full sovereignty"? What?

Key grafs:

"Tony Blair's call for a new Iraqi government to have a veto over coalition military operations after a hand-over of power at the end of next month was rebuffed in Washington last night.

Within hours of his asserting the right of the incoming government to prevent American forces from mounting another Fallujah-style assault, Colin Powell, the secretary of state, said that US forces would be under US command, with the right to do "what is necessary" to protect themselves.

His insistence on operational freedom was the first public sign of disagreement between America and Britain over the planned hand-over of power to an interim government on June 30..."

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