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Nope it doesn't. Kosovo was an autonomous province of Serbia before Milosevic, in 1989 stripped it of its privileges and prompted the liberation war. Hence Kosovo had its own political structure, police and in due time it built its own police-army, the KLA. Previous government structures resumed civilian authority. The KLA was dismantled after the war, but its branches formed the police and militia. The UN provided cover for the regime-in-being. A regime with its structure was already there. In Iraq there is no such thing, as the previous regime was crushed and all of its structures vanished in the general plundering of the post war days.
Also in Kosovo there were only two factions:Serbs, who were compelled to emigrate back to motherland after the war, and Kosovans (or whatever they are called), who remained as winners. In Iraq you have the old Sunni-Baathist and the Shi'a moderates and the Shia' extremists and hundreds of tribes. Things are more complicated and liable to end in a civil war Somalia style.
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