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- vespa0
brilliant article, thanks MX_OnD.
Regarding that phrase we keep hearing, "Transfer of Power" (or the more ambiguous "Transition of Power" - "transition" doesn't mean power goes from the currently powerful to the Iraqis, it just implies movement, without specifying direction):
"They have no control over their oil, no authority over the streets of Baghdad, let alone the rest of the country, no workable army or loyal police force. Their only power is that of the American military and its 150,000 soldiers whom we could see at the main Baghdad intersections yesterday."