US Tiring of Iraq Council- report

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8E30FECC-80DC-4079-AF7B-AD6C4953CDB1.htm

<snip>The Bush administration is losing patience with the self-interest and sluggishness of Iraq's Governing Council and is considering finding an alternative, a paper reported on Sunday.

US officials think members of the US-appointed IGC, under interim president Jalal Talabani, are too focused on their own interests and moving too slowly to draft a new constitution - a US prerequisite for a power handover - the Washington Post said, citing senior US officials.

"We're unhappy with all of them. They're not acting as a legislative or governing body, and we need to get moving," a US official quoted by the paper said.

The Post said Robert Blackwill, an official on the White House National Security Council overseeing Iraq's political transition, was embarking on an unannounced trip to Iraq this weekend to underscore US concerns.

[saigon68]

1. NEW PUPPETS NEEDED

We need more people with a "corporate identity" to be leaders of NEW FREE IRAQ (NFI)

Iraqi corporate moguls are in short supply, as they are all living in Cannes or Monaco.


On edit: Thanks leftchick ---there a lot more stories out there like Diane's story. Rememberances like hers are going to scorch the souls of these criminals.

[Voltaire99]

15. HELP WANTED: Bootlickers to "govern" new Middle East "democracy"

Long, thankless hours and a certain amount of personal risk. Pay non-negotiable. References required.

[Jacobin]

2. Next step is a recycled dictator

Then, on to Syria to spread "democracy"

[dArKeR]

3. Bush blames everyone except his Administration.

[Don_G]

4. Just Because They Want To Keep Their Oil

Their infrastructure, industries, businesses and land within their national boundaries, they're ungrateful for US intervention on "their" behalf?

I think ShrubCo needs to get a clue.

[Aidoneus]

5. What they really would like is a dedicated Nuri al-Said or five..

to offer up his back to have the strings firmly inserted and be directed by them, while still maintaining a facade of sovereignty. Chalabi & his goons appear to not be fitting that bill, for while Nuri was an entirely self-interested British puppet, he was at least useful and capable in carrying out the most brutal suppressions to a positive effect for decades ("positive" from his standpoint and that of his British imperial masters).

The quisling council is a toothless club that most of the members seem to no longer even bother showing up to anymore, let alone either energetically resisting the criminal plots or applying themselves to seeing them through.

On another front, there is talk that the recolonization authorities are being told to consider co-opting the (otherwise anti-occupation) Sadrist leaders by adding either Muqtada himself or Sheikh Yaqoubi (another influential student of Sadr's martyred father) to the puppet council. In that sense, the IGC has been at least somewhat useful in buying the occupation authorities enough time to entrench themselves and begin selling off Iraq to foreign corporations.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. "...too focused on their own interests..."....

I guess that means that the IGC was interested in those programs that would restore utilities and good drinking water to all of Iraq.

I guess that also means that the IGC was interested in generating jobs for the 60-70% of working age Iraqis that are currently unemployed.

Maybe they want to add their own thoughts to the so-called "constitution" they are being told to draft and ratify as quickly as possible.

And maybe, just maybe, the IGC is resisting the sale of Iraqi businesses to American interests.

[Cocoa]

7. forty years ago this week...

the U.S. tired of the Diem government in Vietnam.

[saigon68]

8. Remember it well

It was a travesty. Diem and his brother Nhu

Gunned down in the back of an APC by their own troops.

[snippy]

9. This is Bush league.

The failure to support the hand picked puppets will be seen as a lack of loyalty by many Iraqis and as colonialism by nearly all.

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. "Embarking on an unannounced trip?"

The Post said Robert Blackwill, an official on the White House National Security Council overseeing Iraq's political transition, was embarking on an unannounced trip to Iraq this weekend to underscore US concerns.

Hardly "unannounced" now, is it? Listen up, you peeps -- Big W, Our Glorious Leader, Chosen by God, Keeper of the Faith and Protector of Mom and Apple Pie, is pissed. He's gonna stomp your piles of rubble into smaller piles of rubble, if you don't get on the ball and sign over what's left of your country to Halliburton! So there!

[cliss]

11. I remember reading a while back

that Paul Bremer was getting increasingly frustrated with the Iraqi "governing" council. He felt that they were not being effective, that they were not accomplishing anything. He felt that he needed to "force" them out in public view so that the Iraqis could see that they actually were taking over the reins.

One of the members complained that they have no authority, no rights. I believe she was the one who was later shot down as she was going home.

What fools. What utter keystones. As the rest of the world watches and shakes its head in disbelief.

[Bob3]

12. "self interested and sluggish"

Two points.

1. They picked them - if they aren't working out whose fault is that?

2. self interested and sluggish - what's the problem? Their masters are they same way.

[Snellius]

13. Don't they know we have an election to run over here?

How long did it take Americans to right our constitution? What? 7 years?

[samsingh]

14. no one knows better about self-interest and sluggishness

than the Bush morons and assholes.

[0007]

16. Robert Blackwill, is an ambassador to India?

Robert Blackwill, an official on the White House National Security Council overseeing Iraq's political transition, was embarking on an unannounced trip to Iraq this weekend to underscore US concerns.

How many hats do these guys wear around here for christ sake!

I guess junior wants Ahmed Chalabi as the new president of Iraq, 'eh?



Does Ahmed look presidential to you?

Well yeah, well we'll hold elections next week. The polls say the Iraqis want Chalabi to be president. Chalabi is fair and honest and will be a good president.

The new voting machines are on there way. These machines are guaranteed against fraud.