Sounds like a piss poor football play to me.
A podium was set up in the middle of a dirty street. Five small balloons and some tinsel decorated a seating area. The American ambassador and the top commander of U.S. troops didn't show up. Neither did Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
At one checkpoint where U.S. troops had been strict in their enforcement of security protocols, Iraqi soldiers smiled and conducted only cursory pat-downs. No one objected when visitors simply walked around a body-scan machine instead of passing through it.
When the ceremony was over, workers took down the banner, revealing a sign underneath. It was a set of rules, created by the U.S. military, on how weapons should be handled in the Green Zone.
To think that the US has stopped calling the plays in Irak is being naive.
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