Today's Definition of "Sovereignty"

Is Iraq now a sovereign nation? Let's see:

The same day that U.S. administrator Paul Bremer officially ended the occupation, U.S. prosecutors refused to abide by an Iraqi judge's order acquitting Iraqi citizen Iyad Akmush Kanum of attempted murder of coalition troops. Instead, the prosecutors returned Kanum to the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, claiming that "they were not bound by Iraqi law." In the days leading up to his departure, Bremer "issued a raft of edicts" in an effort to "exert U.S. control over the country after the transfer of political authority." Specifically, Bremer empowered a seven-member appointed commission "to disqualify political parties and any of the candidates they support." Bremer also "appointed Iraqis handpicked by his aides to influential positions in the interim government" with multi-year terms to "promote his concepts of governance" after the handover. Iraq remains plagued by violence and "the primary military responsibility for fighting the insurgency remains as much in American hands as it did yesterday." As a result, the New York Times concludes it is "ludicrous for administration officials to suggest that America's occupation of Iraq has now somehow ended."

Huh? But yesterday Bush said, "15 months after the liberation of Iraq...the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraqi government."

Now I'm confused. Is our esteemed leader misleading us? Even if he is, I don't mind as long as the killing stops right now. Tens of thousands of humans have been slaughtered in Iraq since March, 2003, and someone must put an end to this uncivilized behaviour right now. There is no good reason for any more Iraqi children, or American and Iraqi men and women, to die by gun, knife or bomb. It's senseless and it's the obligation of the United States president to stop it. Now.