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Pushing back the June 30 deadline--an idea broached publicly last week by, among others, Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar--would not be controversial if Iraq did not have so many groups competing for power. After all, Bremer's CPA still doesn't know to whom it's going to transfer authority on June 30. U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Baghdad last week, charged with persuading prominent Iraqi leaders to accept a political arrangement that could bridge the gap between the handover and next year's hoped-for elections. A knowledgeable State Department official says Brahimi will probably endorse...
...Either way, violence and tension looks set to escalate in the weeks and months ahead, raising doubts over the viability of the June 30 hand-over date. The ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Richard Lugar and Democrat Joe Biden called on Sunday for a new debate over whether the U.S. can afford to hand over authority on June 30 and risk, as they put it, Iraq descending into civil war. That may not be a debate the Bush administration had hoped to be having a mere four months before the U.S. presidential election...
Perry, now a Stanford professor and co-chair of the Harvard-Stanford Preventative Defense Project, said the U.S. needs “new tools to deal with new times.” He stressed the need for full compliance with the Nunn-Lugar Act, which encourages the dismantling of weapons of mass destruction...
According to Perry, Russia has not fully complied with Nunn-Lugar, “especially in the areas of biological and chemical weapons...
President Bush faced a call this week from a senior member of his own party's foreign policy establishment to "level" with the American people about Iraq. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar was not harping on the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction; he was urging the president to give the electorate a more realistic picture of the scale and duration of the U.S. occupation mission in Iraq, and to impress on them the importance of staying the course. Fresh from a visit to Baghdad, Lugar warned: "The idea that we will...