"Full Metal Sovereignty"

Foreign Aid Watch dissects our offer of "power" to Iraq's new "government."

Full metal jacket refers to a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper). 'Full Metal Sovereignty' refers to a military regime with a very, very thin covering of democracy such as the o­ne that is quietly being imposed in Iraq. A definition of sovereignty is a government that is free from external control. The covering of democracy o­n the military regime in Iraq is so thin that it is quite transparent to the scrutiny of anyone that is so daring as to disbelieve the words of George Bush.

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