Tuesday, April 27, 2004
A new kind of sovereignty
A sovereign government that can't pass laws or run its own internal security. What is that, exactly? A temp agency? (from AP)
John Negroponte, nominated to be ambassador to Baghdad, said at his Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that Iraqis will have ``a lot more sovereignty than they have right now'' after the June 30 handover, but the United States will still have a key role in providing and overseeing security, and the caretaker government won't be able to make laws.
Negroponte said the focus of the transitional government would be to organize elections, and the cabinet ministries will carry out the government's day-to-day operations.
