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To: ManyMoose who wrote (27841)	4/18/2008 2:11:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 71588

Re: "If you are sovereign you can follow whatever dang laws you want, or not." That's correct, ManyMoose. Believe that's what I said. If they are a sovereign government... then the world's other nations recognize them as a sovereign peer.... (Whether a country would choose to FOLLOW IT'S OWN LAWS, or not, would be an internal matter. For example: whether the Iraqis follow the mandates of the Iraqi Constitution or not... or whether America follows the mandates of the American Constitution or not.) All I pointed out was that --- at this point-in-time --- the US's occupation of Iraq is authorized only by a resolution of the U.N. Security Council. That authorization has already been extended ONCE. (At the end of last year, when the original authorization expired, it was extended until December 31st. of this year.) But, since Russia and some other members of the Security Council are saying they 'will NOT extend the UN Authorization any further' (and the Security Council cannot act unless it acts unanimously...), it's a safe bet that the UN authorization will expire at the end of this year. It will be up to the SOVEREIGN nations of the United States of America, and Iraq, to come up with a bilateral agreement/treaty to authorize any further occupation past the end of this year. That is why Bush is trying to draft some sort of 'basing agreement' (as the administration prefers to call it.) The potential problem comes from the fact that the new IRAQI CONSTITUTION clearly calls for all foreign agreements of this sort to be submitted to the Iraqi Parliament for ratification (then to be signed by the Prime Minister)... and some argue that the American Constitution also requires Senate ratification (& then the President to sign) before any such agreement can go into effect.