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...would demand further sacrifice of American lives and treasure. That's because for all the reasons the Bush Administration went to war in Iraq, retreat is not an option. The implications of the President's commitment may have been clarified in reports Wednesday that his viceroy in Baghdad, Paul Bremer, has asked Washington to send more troops and civilian administrators to Iraq to help turn around the security and infrastructure crises there. Key senators from both parties have been warning in recent weeks that success in Iraq will require more troops, whether sent by the U.S. or by its allies...
...always been to install a stable, friendly Iraqi government whose oil revenues would give it financial independence and withdraw the bulk of the force that had overthrown Saddam's regime. But the scale of the challenge of remaking Iraq forced Washington to adapt its plans. When U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer arrived to take the reins from the hapless Jay Garner he chose to keep political authority in U.S. hands rather than betting prematurely on any Iraqi group. To the chagrin of most of Iraq's many political factions, Bremer has put talk of a transitional government in the deep freeze...
...clear from the moment Bremer took over that the process of achieving the Bush administration's political objectives in post-Saddam Iraq might take years of patient nation-building. But what has become equally clear, in recent weeks, is that it may also require winning a second war, of counterinsurgency...
...American Administration that has effectively decided to run the country on its own. Earlier this month, the U.S. decided against allowing a group of seven former opposition parties--a coalition calling itself the "leadership council"--to quickly establish an all-Iraqi provisional government. Instead, civilian administrator Paul Bremer announced plans to appoint a 25-to-30-person political council that will answer to him; U.S. officials told TIME they hope to name councilors by early next month. Bremer modified the plan in response to Iraqi demands that the council be given more clout and independence, but the U.S.'s prewar...
Iraqi political leaders warn that Bremer's plan may embolden America's enemies even more--by marginalizing the country's most organized pro-Western forces and fueling suspicions that the U.S. plans to rule Iraq indefinitely. "If people feel that the U.S. is determined to go its own way, with no Iraqi partner who has a say, they will show less cooperation with the Americans," says Hoshyar Zebari, a senior official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party. "This plays into the hands of the extremists." But U.S. officials say they never intended to hand power over to these former opposition parties...