Iraq is not yet free of Saddam Hussein or Jerry Bremer. The political ghosts of the murderous dictator and the well-meaning U.S. administrator stroll through Baghdad's corridors of stalemated power two years after liberation.
Iraq's newly minted, democratically elected politicians have driven themselves into deadlock in pursuit of conflicting hidden agendas. But they are virtually required to do so by the legal code and political structure left behind by Bremer and his advisers when they departed last summer.
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