Iraq's new "Government"

[Oddman]

"This is a very hopeful day for the Iraqi people and the American people," he said. "It's going to send a clear signal that terrorists can't win." said resident bush.

The United States had been caught off guard when the council chose Iyad Allawi as prime minister last week.

U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice earlier gave unqualified support to the leaders of Iraq's interim government, and insisted they were not "America's puppets."

Mr Yawar has said it was 'totally unacceptable' for the US to remain in Saddam's former Republican Palace presidential compound and to convert it into their embassy, as some reports have suggested.

How long will this government last?

[jo35042]

1. W distanced himself

from the choices, while praising the choices or was he "damning with faint praise"

I imagine when they screw up or throw us out he will be able to say how hopeful he was and how bad they were.

what an abominable liar he is. I watched some of his speech today and he was so obviously lying about Chalabi, did anyone else see that?

[Oddman]

3. I saw it . . .

I'm looking for a complete transcript of it . . .

[IHaveADream]

4. he also said

"The new government is a gamechanger they're changing the game."

What a moran!!!

[IHaveADream]

2. I know bush said

"I didn't help pick none of them"

[Disturbed]

5. A Complete Farce!

Full Sovereignty?

Throughout the spring, as hundreds died in the spiraling conflict, as Regime bosses applied their hardcore "anti-terrorist" tortures to innocent bystanders raked up in their occupation nets, as Regime mouthpieces prated endlessly of "liberation" and "sovereignty," Bush viceroy Paul Bremer was quietly signing a series of edicts that will give the United States effective control over the military, ministries -- and money -- of any Iraqi government, for years to come, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Bremer has placed U.S.-appointed "commissions" made up of Americans and local puppets throughout Iraqi government agencies; the ministers supposedly in charge weren't even told of the edicts. These boards "will serve multiyear terms and have significant authority to run criminal investigations, award contracts, direct troops and subpoena citizens," the Journal reports. Any new Iraqi government "will have little control over its armed forces, lack the ability to make or change laws and be unable to make major decisions within specific ministries without tacit U.S. approval, say U.S. officials."


Earlier Bremer edicts laid the Iraqi economy wide open to ruthless exploitation by Bush-approved foreign "investors"; dominance of such key sectors as banking, communications -- and energy -- is already well advanced. The latest dictates aim to ensure that this organized looting goes on, no matter what kind of makeshift "interim government" the United Nations manage to piece together. Bush's plans to build a Saddamite fortress embassy in Baghdad and 14 permanent military bases around the country are designed to provide the knee-breaking "security" for these lucrative arrangements



http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/21/120.html

[Gloria]

6. Both BBC and CBC on the shortwave broadcasts refer to the

presidency (Yawar) as "largely ceremonial."

Just finished listening to the CBC "World at 6" broadcast...

After the reports of a "joy and a feeling of national pride" they went to the reports of "deep underlying cynicsm" and interviewed a street vendor who said it was the same bunch all over again.

I don't know how many Iraqis know that the ministries are packed with US operatives...but if this becomes common knowledge, then that street vendor's view will be right on the mark.

[IHaveADream]

7. Was that bush feeling pride?

I can't imagine the Iraqis are feeling that!