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Originally Posted by Undertoad
My definition of "sovereign nation" is...
...it's what the people vote for.
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So their government does not hide out in American protected green zones? So they don't travel with Blackwater security? So transportation is provided by Iraqis? When Americans tell them what to do, then what do they do? Either what the Americans tell them or nothing. The Iraqi government is only the latest version of Ahmad Chalabi. Each version changed when the previous one cannot do enough of what America wants.
At least the S Vietnamese government was protected by Vietnamese - not by Americans. At least the S Vietnamese government - president and parliament - did not hide out in American bases. But that too was an elected and American puppet government.
This current Iraqi government gets respect because so many parties (the Kurds, al Sadr, some Sunnis, etc) need the central government as cover or as a channel to work with their otherwise adversaries. The only reason this Iraqi government can remain in existence is completely dependent on the largest military and financial power to protect and finance it.
Today an Iraqi government official was burned in a car bombing. Who was his security, who extracted him from the burning car, and who arranged to have him flown safely back into the American green zone? Blackwater – paid for by the US government. This Iraqi government is independent of America? Hardly.