Yes. They have their own currency, armed forces, diplomatic policy, and government structure. They are, for all intents and purposes, independent.
Iraq became independent from its colonist in 1932.
Mesopotamia is a region. Iraq is a country. Therefore, Mesopotamia has existed since the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers started flowing. Iraq has only been a political entity since 1919 and a truly independent one since 1954, its borders never changing. As a result, Mesopotamia has always been in Iraq since Iraq began to exist.
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They are the Kurds in northern Iraq.
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The term Iraq has existed as a regional term in Arabic for Mesopotamia more or less since the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia in the 7th century C.E. However, as the name of an independent or quasi-independent region, it only gained the name Iraq in 1919, when it was designated as the British Mandate for Iraq.
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Americans do not hate Iraq. The US Government believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorist organizations. After discovering that neither was truly the case, the US remained in Iraq to finish the job of reconstruction and protecting the new democratic government.
Kuwait was invaded by Iraq, and now remains an independent country.