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So Iraqi sovereignty two days early... I can't help but wonder why. What is two days waiting, really? Was it Allawi's Birthday or something? I seriously doubt Bush just felt "extra nice" today. Could this have something to do with the trial and hand-over of Saddam? Apparently a close relative of Chalabi's was going to be the one and only judge presiding over Saddam... perhaps they are trying to get him over to Iraqis now and get the innumerable controversies out of Bush's hair? Could this have something to do with the increasingly coordinated bombings? Surely, when a former CIA operative (Allawi) is in control instead of nobody at all, that sort of thing will no longer have anything to do with Americans. As if we didn't have enough reason to raise an eyebrow at the Bush administration over Iraq... John Negroponte is now the US Ambassador there. His embassy is a remodeled former palace of Saddam Hussein's... making it the largest embassy ever... because it's really a palace. So, we hand over sovereignty to somebody who was nice enough to be our dog when Hussein was in power (he also lead a horrendously bloody and failed coup attempt during that time... which means that he has blood on his hands as a killer just like anyone else in Iraq threatening a sovereign government), we give Hussein back to him so that it looks like we're giving it back to a totally unaffiliated government, we give other friends who happen to be Iraqi positions on the court that will try Hussein, we claim we've never spoken with any of these people on the matters we speak with them about, and then we say that we don't understand why the terrorists don't like the new government. It must be because they hate freedom.