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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: PartyTime who started this subject5/25/2004 7:05:06 AM
From: John Sladek   of 173976
 
US Offers Iraq 'Sovereignty Lite'
by Thalif Deen

The United States and Britain are asking the U.N. Security Council to transfer political and administrative power to Iraq while holding back sovereign power that legitimately belongs to the Iraqi people, say critics of the move proposed Monday.

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"The whole thing is a sham," says Joan Russow of the Canada-based Global Compliance Research Project. "It would appear that the Security Council will cave in to U.S. and U.K. pressure to essentially absolve the two countries for their preemptive/preventive aggression against Iraq: an undeniable violation of the rule of international law."

"If the current resolution is adopted," she told IPS, "a dangerous precedent will be set – that the Security Council will overlook distortion of facts to justify intervention."

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Full Story: antiwar.com
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