Remember the
hoopla about those FABULOUS elections, where Iraqis held up their purple fingers? Gosh it was so great to let freedom ring!
"...Across Iraq today, men and women have taken rightful control of their country's destiny..."
Well so what if you had elections!? We own your intelligence agency, and their documents.
Here's what Bush's idea of "rightful control of the country's destiny" looks like...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The CIA has refused to hand over control of Iraq's intelligence service to the newly elected Iraqi government...
more after the jump...
Until we get the Ohio election model perfected for Iraq, we'll just have to make do with the old style soviet model...
...The director of Iraq's secret police, a general who took part in a failed coup attempt against Saddam Hussein, was handpicked and financed by the U.S. government, and he still reports directly to the CIA...
...Immediately after the elections in January, several Iraqi officials said, U.S. forces stashed the sensitive national-intelligence archives of the past year inside American headquarters in Baghdad in order to keep them off-limits to the new government.
Iraqi leaders complain that the arrangement violates their sovereignty...
I guess they're about as sovereign as we're letting them be.