Reply #2: Well, this could screw up Bush's pre-election photo ops

[Miss Authoritiva]

"We are trying to persuade the Americans to agree to a real transfer of sovereignty," he said adding that a new Iraqi government "must have its say on security matters."

I mean, how can Bush do the hand-shaking, winking, waving routine at the raising of the new Iraqi flag at the United Nations (just in time for the Republican Convention in New York City) if the UN is going to get picky, picky, picky about a "real transfer of sovereignty."