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...Iraqification" only works on a security level if it occurs with a transfer of political authority to Iraqis. That may be why Ambassador Paul Bremer is now talking of accelerating the process by which Iraqis adopt a new constitution and elect a government. But constitution-making is a deeply contentious business in Iraq, which has, pretty much since it was constituted as a nation-state by the British after World War I, been ruled by the Sunni minority. The Shiite majority, naturally, insist on nothing short of a majoritarian democracy, while the Kurds demand the right to govern northern Iraq...
...order to "put an Iraqi face" on the occupation. The IGC is composed of a variety of competing interests, and its members have different ideas about how to get the Iraqis involved in security. Some want a wholesale revival of the old Iraqi army disbanded by Ambassador Bremer's decree; others, particularly from the Shiite and Kurdish communities, want a greater role for the militias link to their own communities and political parties. And for the Europeans, the Arabs and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the key issue is sovereignty - the best hope for getting Iraqis involved in security...
...that most of the donor pledges corralled by the U.S. last week came in the form of loans and loan-guarantees. Washington had already acceded to the reality that nobody outside its "coalition of the willing" is going to provide funds to be managed directly by U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer, so a separate fund was created under the supervision of the IMF and World Bank to attract grants. But loans, presumably, would be a different matter. Those who loan money to others expect to be repaid, and therefore they need to know that the entity undertaking to repay the loan...
...officials are quick to speak out, branding such attacks as aimed at the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, such sentiments don't carry as much weight inside Iraq when they come from Paul Bremer or Don Rumsfeld, and - as Bremer has complained - there's a conspicuous absence of an Iraqi voice speaking out forcefully, publicly and consistently denouncing such attacks. Indeed, the response to the security crisis by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council has been to urge the U.S. to transfer more security and political control to Iraqis, although their internal divisions are reflected in competing visions on what form this...
...thwarted any attempts by Iraqis to govern themselves. No elections have occurred anywhere in Iraq. In June, the U.S. called off plans for local elections and appointed hand-picked mayors, much to the chagrin of many Iraqis. American forces also handpicked an Iraqi Governing Council, though L. Paul Bremer still maintains veto power over their decisions. The Iraqis recognize that this governing council is a joke and merely an effort by the U.S. to find Iraqis to collaborate with its own plans. Now the U.S. is even trying to make deals with tribal leaders, as they have done in Afghanistan...