national sovereignty day

tomorrow has got to be the third or fourth time that someone celebrated the restoration of iraqi sovereignty since the beginning of the iraq war. does anyone remember this anymore:


whenever any country has to say, "we're sovereign!" this many times, you gotta start wondering.

but this time it's not really about "sovereignty", it's really about the withdrawal of american forces to their bases, which is the first phase of the eventual american pullout. this also seems to be the first sovereignty holiday that ordinary iraqis actually seem to be celebrating.