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...Powell's comments came long before the stubborn insurgency took root, and before the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council failed to achieve either legitimacy or consensus. And long before the U.S. changed its plans, opting to replace the IGC with a new provisional government at caucuses of select Iraqis. Longer, still, even before the collapse of that revised plan in the face of determined opposition from the Shiite majority, whose spiritual leaders have demanded direct elections. Right now, the only aspect of the U.S. transition plan devised last November that remains on track is the June 30 date for dissolving...
...avoid it. The Kurds are digging in their heels and demanding to be recognized as a de facto state within a state. Bremer, forced into an increasingly tricky balancing act, had initially hoped that the Ayatollah's objections could be overcome with some tweaking of the caucus plan, but Sistani brought his supporters out into the streets to make clear that it was a recipe for instability. The deadlock prompted Washington to turn...
...Free Elections for Iraq Your article "Dealing with the Cleric" reported on the objections of Iraq's Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani to the U.S. plan to turn over control of Iraq by June 30 to a transitional government chosen by a caucus system rather than by direct elections [Feb. 2]. One thing seems clear: President George W. Bush started a war that has claimed hundreds of American lives, and now he wants to have a nice, friendly handover of governance just in time for the U.S. presidential election. Meanwhile, the Iraqis lose out on having a true democracy, something...
...with these words, as if he had aroused the wrath of God with his inanity, the walls came tumbling down on Dean. He came in third in the Iowa caucus, second in New Hampshire’s primary, and then failed to take first place in any subsequent primary. According to CNN/USA Today/Gallup polls of registered Democrats nationwide, in mid-December he had been leading the nearest Democratic contender by 18 percentage points; by the beginning of February, he was losing to Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., by 38 percentage points. In less than a month, everything that Dean...
...Handing over power to even a modified version of the IGC is a high-risk strategy, unless it has Sistani's blessing. The caucus plan was adopted precisely because of the IGC's lack of legitimacy, and its internal paralysis that resulted partly from the clash of competing political-ethnic interests. Expanding the IGC could exacerbate such tensions, as each of the ethnic communities currently represented on the Council is already demanding a greater voice...