[news] The Hand-Over that Wasn’t: How the Occupation of Iraq Continues

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July 2004 ; Foreign Policy In Focus ; By Antonia Juhasz The U.S. occupation of 
Iraq officially ended on June 28, 2004 , in a secret ceremony in Baghdad . 
Officially, “full sovereignty” was handed from the Americans to the Iraqi 
Interim Government. But it was clear from the start that this was sovereignty 
in name, not in deed. First, there is the continued military occupation: 
138,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines, plus 20,000 troops from other countries and 
an estimated 20,000 contractors, all fully under U.S. control and immune to 
Iraqi laws. Equally debilitating, however significantly less well reported 
upon, is the continued political and economic occupation by the Bush 
administration and its corporate allies.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/20/9043/29530