Iraqi Council Hailed with Faint Praise

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The new U.S.-appointed Governing Council in Iraq is getting a lukewarm welcome in the media of nearby countries.

In Baghdad and Beirut, the two cities with the freest press in the Arab world, the council is receiving expressions of support, leavened with low expectations about its powers. Many media outlets observe that the chief of the U.S. military occupation, Paul Bremer, retains a veto over all of the council’s decisions. A few urge that the Bush administration turn over control of Iraq to the United Nations.

Iraqis Observe July 4

A new Baghdad newspaper, Al-'Adala, is published by the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Shiite group which has a representative on the Council. In a translation done by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute, the paper’s writers scorned the U.S. occupation while expressing support for the council.

"It is a ridiculous incongruity that the occupiers celebrate their independence day while occupying other countries," the paper declared last week.

"We congratulate the American people on their independence day, but we question whether the Americans are concerned about peoples' freedom as much as they are concerned about theirs? Do they honor the will of nations to be independent as much as they sanctify their own independence?" the paper asked.

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[I AM SPARTACUS]

1. well, Smirko Regime expected "singing and dancing in the streets"???

...just like when Iraq was "liberated"???