Iraq will ask the United Nations to end immunity from local law for U.S. troops, the government said on Monday, as the U.S. military named five soldiers charged in a rape-murder case that has outraged Iraqis.
"Analysts say it is improbable the United States would ever make its troops answerable to Iraq's chaotic judicial system."
...A chaotic judicial system set up by the US itself!!
Paul Hue's argument that the Iraqi elections are a victory for democracy rings as hollow as his skull. His contradictory statement that Americans "know" the new Iraqi government is not sovereign confirms his schizophrenic ideology.
"The day before handing formal sovereignty back to Iraqis in June 2004, the U.S. occupation authority issued a decree giving its troops immunity from Iraqi law. That remains in force and is confirmed by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1546 on Iraq."
The new Iraqi puppets will have no more success appealing to a US-controled UN Security Council than the old Iraqi puppet (Hussein) did. The impotence of an Iraqi government that can't even protect its children from lawless US aggression is the fire that fuels the rage of the insurgency.
The only way the puppets will acheive legitimacy in the eyes of their people will be if they thrown the Americans out of the country. The question is will they be able to acheive this before civil war destroys the nation.
US citizens could make this easier for the Iraqis by forcing its own government to abandon this illegal colonial occupation, and by prosecuting all of its war criminals from the lowest private to the commander-in-chief.
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How can the Iraqi govt offials be "puppets" if they are "struggling against their masters"? I could have posted this article as evidence that these officials are not puppets. Nadir, do puppets "struggle against their masters"?
Colonial puppets often struggle against their masters. Sometimes they even succeed in removing their tethers.
I think even the Iraqis who encouraged a US invasion just wanted to be rid of Saddam and then for the US to leave. They now realize the Americans have no intention of leaving, and they want them out. Now is the time for them to fight for autonomy because Bush is in a weakened political state. We'll see if they succeed.
Nadir: Are you under the impression that 100% of Iraqis want the US troops to leave NOW!!!? Surely this figure doesn't hold within the 20% of the population classified as "Kurds."
Your strange definition of "puppet" is impossible to counter, except with a dictionary, which presents only definitions that you apparently reject. In a world where you can invent definitions, we can all just use any words we want at any time. I hate Bush, he likes the Iraqi govt, the word "puppet" is bad, I shall call that govt a puppet, dicitonary be damned. The same goes for words like "colony/colonial" and "imperialism." Just throw them at govts that you dislike, because they are negative words.
Are the following govt's (derived from US military invasions, and official rulers of lands containing US military bases over 60 years old) US colonial puppets, constituents in a US network of imperialism? How much money annually do their citizens send to the US imperial govt?
- Japan?
- South Korea?
- Germany?
- Italy?
- France?
I will try to remember that when you use these words, you have your own special definitions, but as a favor to me, but can you please use definitions documented in dictionaries?
We ignorant Americans realize that Iraq's govt enjoys an inchoete sovereignty. We do not believe that it is strong enough to survive the absense of US troops. We do not believe that our understanding of this wobbly democratic govt is undermined by Bush flying in as part of his capacity as the commander of that military without notice of that govt. This article posted by you supports our view that this Iraqi govt is independant of the US, that it fails to qualify for
Nadir: What fraction of Iraqi's want US troops out NOW!!!? They elected representatives who have not made such a request. They should do so well as the many nations who've hosted US military bases for 60 years (Germany, Italy, France, Japan, etc.), several of which annually attract collectively a million or so Arab immmigrants. It seems that housing US military bases correllates strongly with religious freedom and economic prosperity.
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