Why should U.S. dominate talks about Iraq with Iran? What happened to Iraq's sovereignty?

Iraq's Sunni vice president says planned Iran-US meeting is 'damaging' to Iraqi sovereignty

The Associated Press
May 19, 2007

SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan: Iraq's Sunni vice president spoke out Sunday against the upcoming U.S.-Iran talks on the situation in his country, saying the dialogue was "damaging to Iraq's sovereignty."

Iraq's Shiite and Kurdish-dominated government has been pressing for those talks, due to take place on May 28 in Baghdad to help appease spiraling violence in Iraq. But the comments by Tariq al-Hashemi, a leader of the main Sunni bloc in parliament, reflected wide differences among the country's religious and ethnic groups on the role of Shiite-dominated Iran.

"It's not good to encourage anybody to talk on behalf of the Iraqi people on their internal and national affairs," al-Hashemi told reporters on the last day of an international conference held by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum.

Al-Hashemi said he would have preferred that the subject of Iraq's stability was "tackled by Iraqis themselves."

"This is really damaging to Iraq's sovereignty," he said.

The vice president said he would make sure Iraqis were "aware of the agenda," and "consulted on whatever resolution and agreement" was reached during the bilateral meetings between the U.S. and Iran.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/20/africa/ME-GEN-Jordan-World-Economic-Forum.php

to make Iraq our 52nd state (behind Afghanistan)

and by legally I mean that it was criminal to invade them...