US hands over sovereignty in Iraq

From The BBC

The US has formally handed over power in Iraq, two days ahead of schedule.

At a low-key ceremony in Baghdad, US administrator Paul Bremer transferred sovereignty to an Iraqi judge, before leaving the country by plane.

In one of the most historic days in Iraq's history, the BBC can't post an aricle simply rejoycing with the Iraq's in their new found freedom without putting a shot accross America's bow. And who do they roll out to provide the parting shot? Gas bag and washed up "so called" journalist John Simpson.

The BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson in Baghdad says bringing the handover forward was a clever tactical move that wrong-footed the Iraqi resistance.

However, he says it actually underlines the US-led coalition's big failure - its inability to stop the violence.

What a wind bag. The BBC should be ashamed to print crap.

The coalition's big failure, eh? The coalition destroyed the much vaunted Special Republican guard in just a few weeks with few casulties. They removed Saddam and freed the Iraqi people. Iraq now has a sovereign government for the first time in decades and are on the road to democracy. All this in spite of anti-American news outlets like the BBC.
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