I seem to recall yesterday sovereignity being handed back to Iraq. Did I miss something? Was it handed back to Iraq and the NY times? they should keep their big noses out of this and let Iraq run their own country.
I seem to recall yesterday sovereignity being handed back to Iraq. Did I miss something? Was it handed back to Iraq and the NY times? they should keep their big noses out of this and let Iraq run their own country.
Brokaw, over video of a flag being folded during an outdoor funeral service and a shot of rows of flag-draped coffins: "I know that you and others like you are grateful for the liberation of Iraq. But can't you understand why many Americans feel that so many young men and women have died here for purposes other than protecting the United States?"
Allawi: "We know that this is an extension to what has happened in New York. And the war have been taken out to Iraq by the same terrorists. Saddam was a potential friend and partner and natural ally of terrorism."
Brokaw pounced: "Prime Minister, I'm surprised that you would make the connection between 9/11 and the war in Iraq. The 9/11 Commission in America says there is no evidence of a 'collaborative relationship' between Saddam Hussein and those terrorists of al-Qaeda."
Allawi: "No. I believe very strongly that Saddam had relations with al-Qaeda. We know Saddam had relationships with a lot of terrorists and international terrorism. Now, whether he is directly connected to the September atrocities or not, I can't vouch for this. But definitely I know he has connections with extremism and terrorists."
Precisely. Saying that we, or in this case, the NYTimes, can dictate to the judicial system of a once again sovereign country simply feeds the myth that we are still in control, and the handover was, as Alcee Hastings put it, "a myth."
They have no problem using the problems in Iraq to produce negative "political dividends" to the Bush reelection campaign, and put a damper on the positive developments, so why should something as significant and overdue as the trial of Saddam be verboten?
Maybe Chirac needs to tell the NY Times to mind their own business and quit trying to tell Iraq what to do.