AlterNet: Keeping an Iron Grip: "George 'The Liberator' Bush brought democracy to Iraq, right? He certainly takes every opportunity to tell us so, pointing to that country's newly-elected government that, he says, now is the sovereign authority in charge of Iraq's destiny.

But... how sovereign are they, really? For example, can you imagine considering our own USofA to be a sovereign democracy if--get this--a foreign power had total control of our CIA? If a nation does not control its own secret intelligence agency, it is not sovereign. So, guess who controls the Iraqi Intelligence Service? The CIA!"

(Via AlterNet.)