Word: sovereign
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...outside the human rights activist community have challenged this seemingly nonnegotiable U.S. position. But now voices inside Iraq are beginning to question whether U.S. military immunity can be tolerated by an ostensibly sovereign nation. The U.S. military presence in Iraq since 2003 has produced, in the eyes of many Iraqis, a lengthy list of alleged crimes by U.S. troops with scant signs of justice. Episodes include the Abu Graib prison abuse scandal in 2004 and the killing of 24 civilians by Marines in Haditha in 2005. Those cases and many other lesser known ones have gone to U.S. military courts...
...will do in this agreement will fully respect that sovereignty. We will look at how the arrangements will go forward. We have a number of agreements around the world. This is not unknown to people - how to negotiate the status of various forces on the soil of a sovereign ally. And so the agreement will be in accordance with those principles...
...shove. The Iraqi Prime Minister had, for example, publicly opposed the surge of some 30,000 additional U.S. troops deployed in Iraq last year, but when they came anyway, al-Maliki's government muffled its dissent. That left many in the region and beyond questioning the extent of sovereign control exercised by the Iraqi government...
...deluded itself into believing that it was somehow a real competitor to Russia in the southern tier of the former Soviet Union - that is, the eight states that make up the Caucasus and the former Soviet Central Asia. Washington acted as if these states were truly independent and sovereign, immune from the influence of the old metropolitan center, Moscow. Washington deliberately ignored how Russia had held on to its military bases in the southern tier, how the successor to the KGB stayed more plugged into intelligence from the area than the CIA ever hoped to, and how local leaders flew...
...reconstruction projects. "Despite Iraq earning billions of dollars in oil revenue in the past five years, U.S. taxpayer money has been the overwhelming source of Iraq reconstruction funds," said Senator John Warner of Virginia, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. "It is time for the sovereign government of Iraq, using its revenues, expenditures and surpluses, to fully assume the responsibility to provide essential services and improve the quality of life for the Iraqi people...