Al-Yawer Named Iraq's New President

[JPJones]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040601/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_politics&cid=540&ncid=716

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Former Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi was appointed as Iraq (news - web sites)'s new president Tuesday but turned down the post, an aide said. Governing Council President Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer was then named to the top post, a council member said.

[moondust]

1. Bushco loses another one.

They backed the other guy. Good for the Iraqis!

[Leilani]

2. Good for Pachachi

for turning them down.

[NNN0LHI]

10. Please don't tell me you fell for this smoke and mirrors

The Iraqis had no say so one way or another in this deal. The US has appointed every one of these thugs. And you better believe the one Bush wanted to get the job did get the job. Amazing.

Don

[stickdog]

15. Were you joking? Or do we really live in a nation of

Gomers?

[AnnitaR]

3. So they won, then they lost?

Seems like the Bushco's got their appointment! They did win!

If Pachachi hadn't turned it down, Bushco would have been successful in selecting Iraq's new President! Some fucking sovereignty!

I'm grateful that Pachachi turned down the job and the Iraqi's got someone they feel they can support. However I am OUTRAGED that Buchco was that close to hand picking the new President!

[AndyTiedye]

4. Was the whole thing with Pachachi an act?

to give the real choice an appearance of legitimacy?

[maddezmom]

5. New Iraqi President Calls for 'Full Sovereignty'... NOW

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s new president said in his first public remarks after being appointed on Tuesday that he wanted the United Nations (news - web sites) Security Council to grant the country "full sovereignty" in a resolution now under discussion.


"We the Iraqis look forward to being granted full sovereignty through a Security Council resolution to enable us to rebuild a free, independent, democratic and federal unified homeland," Yawar told a news conference.

Hoshiyar Zebari, newly reappointed as foreign minister on Tuesday by Prime Minister-designate Iyad Allawi, was heading for New York to lobby the United Nations for full sovereignty when the U.S. occupation authority relinquishes power on June 30.


It was not clear if Zebari would ask for amendments to the draft resolution on Iraqi sovereignty proposed by the United States and Britain. Yawar last week, as head of the Iraqi Governing Council, criticized the draft for giving too little control to Iraqis over U.S. troops remaining on their soil.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040601/wl_nm/iraq_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480

[AnnitaR]

6. Looks like to me that the President and the PM

are going to be at odds with each over many many things!

The train wreck continues.

[maddezmom]

7. List of Iraqi Cabinet Members

Here is the list of Iraqi ministries and the Cabinet members who will lead them, announced Tuesday by the prime minister-designate, Iyad Allawi:



Deputy Prime Minister for National Security — Barham Saleh


Oil — Thamir Ghadbhan


Defense — Hazem Shalan al-Khuzaei


Interior — Falah Hassan al-Naqib


Justice — Malik Dohan al-Hassan


Human Rights — Bakhityar Amin


Electricity — Ayham al-Samarie


Finance — Adil Abdel-Mahdi


Health — Alaa Alwan


Communication — Mohammed Ali Hakim


Housing — Omar Farouk


Public Works — Nesreen Mustafa Berwari


Science and Technology — Rashad Mandan Omar


Planning — Mahdi al-Hafidh


Trade — Mohammed al-Joubri


Sport and Youth — Ali Faik Alghaban





Transportation — Louei Hatim Sultan al-Aris

Provincial Affairs — Waeil Abdel-Latif

Women's Affairs — Nermin Othman

Immigration and Refugees_ Bascal Essue

Irrigation — Abdul-Latif Rasheed

Labor — Leila Abdul-Latif

Education — Sami Mudahfar

Higher Education — Tahir al-Bakaa

Agriculture — Sawsan Sherif

Culture — Mufeed al-Jazaeri

Industry — Hajim al-Hassani

Three ministers of state — Qassim Dawoud, Mahmoud Farhad Othman, Adnan al-Janabi


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20040601/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_cabinet_list

[TheWebHead]

8. someone better wake up Drudge

his webpage is lookin' mighty stale.

[maddezmom]

9. come on tell us what it says....

:)

[TheWebHead]

11. it says

Senior Bush administration official said Adnan Pachachi, 81, had become likely choice...



81 YEAR OLD PRESIDENT OF IRAQ?

[Enraged_Ape]

12. Wow, he really has aged

Last time I saw Pachachi, he looked like this...

[saigon68]

13. He is a Dead Man Walking.

He won't last Long, before someone Kills Him.

[Ganja Ninja]

17. That's why the whole idea of stabilizing the Iraqi government ...

is such a joke. They won't last two weeks after American troops leave. If someone told me I was going to be the new Iraqi president I would be on the first plane out of Baghdad. Talk about the kiss of death.

[saigon68]

18. They all have Swiss Bank Accounts

Because when the "Going Gets Tough" , they will "Get Going".

[maddezmom]

14. interesting quotes by al-Yawer

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In an interview published Tuesday in the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh, al-Yawer belittled Pachachi, saying the octogenarian former foreign minister had been caught napping at meetings of the Iraqi Governing Council and had no "popular base inside Iraq."


Al-Yawer was quoted as saying U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who announced al-Yawer's appointment Tuesday, had told him Pachachi should get the presidency in recognition of his age and stature.


"How can honoring someone in his last days come at the expense of Iraq's future, which needs to be rejuvenated?" al-Yawer was quoted as telling Al-Riyadh.


Al-Yawer was quoted as saying Paul Bremer, head of the U.S.-led occupation authority, offered him "several posts," including ambassador to Washington, if he would pass up the presidency.


"I told him, `Search for whoever wants to go to Washington, I am the son of this country and am clinging to it, and it is the Iraqi people who want to nominate me — if you believe in democracy and respond to the people's will.'"

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20040601/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_yawer_profile

[Gloria]

16. According to the BBC this AM, the presidency is largely "ceremonial"

So, Allawi, ex-CIA, possible cousin of Chalabi, keeper of the 45 min. to WMD claim........is the real guy in charge.

A mess.

[Disturbed]

19. Will Iraqis buy in to this ?

I doubt it. Rumor has it that the Occupation Troops won't leave until 2006. I suspect that there will be US troops there for the next 50 years or more unless the Iraqis have an Uprising and demand that those 14 Military bases close and the troops leave.