"To hell with you, we are Americans!"

This story from Reuters cast a big question mark over who is really in charge of Iraq:

An Iraqi lawmaker accused a U.S. soldier of grabbing him by the throat and shoving him to the ground Tuesday after he parked his car in Baghdad's Green Zone.

Fattah al-Sheikh, an independent, said he had parked his car before a session of parliament when U.S. troops approached him and told him he didn't have the right permit.

He said a soldier then kicked his car, insulted him and grabbed him by the throat with both hands as others looked on, before tying his hands behind his back with white plastic cuffs and shoving him to the ground.

'I don't speak English and so I said to the Iraqi translator with them, 'Tell them that I am a member of parliament,' and he replied, 'To hell with you, we are Americans,'' Sheikh told parliament, fighting back tears as he recounted the story.

Story courtesy of MichaelMoore.com, which since the November election has become an increasingly good site for latest news items.