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...both were largely symbolic. On June 28, the U.S.-led coalition transferred limited sovereignty to a government of Iraqis, ending the reign of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and placing control of the country—at least officially—in the hands of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Unfortunately, the transfer of power has not made the rocky road to peace in Iraq any smoother. Earlier this month, a second, far grimmer milestone: the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq crept past the sobering 1,000 mark...
...White House, Thursday's visit by Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi couldn't have been more timely. Just as President Bush's relentlessly optimistic campaign-trail spin on Iraq was coming under fire not only from John Kerry but also from heavyweight Senate Republicans, here was an authentic Iraqi voice validating the Bush position. In response to critics charging that his rhetoric was hopelessly optimistic, Bush stood alongside Allawi and responded, "What's important for the American people to hear is reality. And the reality's right here in the form of the prime minister...
...Whether or not American voters choose to believe the President - or to accept John Kerry's charge that Allawi is simply reading from the administration's script and distorting the reality - in the eyes of Iraqis and most of the international community Allawi does not personify the democratic will of a free people. That's because Allawi owes his appointment last June not to the Iraqi electorate, but to outgoing U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer. And his authority in Baghdad rests primarily on the backing of some 130,000 U.S. troops that remain in the country, and whose presence...
...precisely because Iraq does not yet have a government whose legitimacy has been established among its own people that the question of the election scheduled for January has assumed so much importance. Allawi insisted that the election would go ahead - although, he warned, it would be imperfect - despite the suggestion by "some" that security conditions for holding a credible election simply don't exist right now. "Some" may have been a reference to the likes of Senator John Kerry and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, but ironically the suggestion that elections might have to be postponed for security reasons...
...earmarked for long-term reconstruction of Iraq to immediate security priorities. That's in pursuit of a strategy based on turning most of the responsibility for day-to-day security in Iraq over to newly-minted Iraqi forces, and establishing the legitimacy of the U.S.-appointed government of Iyad Allawi by holding elections on schedule. But it's far from clear, thus far, that Iraqi forces will be up to the job or that Allawi will survive an election. It's not even certain that the Iraqi election will go ahead on schedule, given the current level of violence...