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...would be unnecessary. Even today Pentagon officials say they have no plans to send more troops to Iraq, though the Administration is actively pushing its allies to send up to 30,000 more of their troops there by the end of September. For the foreseeable future, cleaning up the mess has fallen entirely to Bremer, 61, the proconsul in whom the Bush Administration has vested complete authority for getting the country running again, winning 25 million hearts and minds and eventually making Iraq safe for democracy. "We are the government of Iraq, and that's big, scary stuff," Andy Bearpark...
...Taylor: I'll tell you this. It's politically motivated and the politicians will have to correct their mess...
...attacks on America's troops are continuing. One is killed in a Baghdad ambush. Another is shot while buying something from a street vender elsewhere in the capital. Then there's the mess over in Falluja, an hour's drive to the west. You'd think that the country is rising up against the occupation. But, despite the headlines, there's still a good deal of support for the U.S. forces among Iraqis, or so I found traveling around the country speaking to leaders and, mainly, to ordinary folks...
...wanted in place sometime later this month, Coalition Provisional Authority chief L. Paul Bremer may have a case. U.S. officials want to keep the ultimate decision-making power in their hands during the transition. They are justifiably concerned that Iraqi parties have scant experience with pluralism and may mess things up. Iraq's Kurdish factions used to go to war over smuggling revenues, so you can imagine what kind of scrum there might be over Iraq's oil wealth. Anyway, the U.S. plan isn't to exclude Iraqis altogether. All the parties would have top people in government ministries, even...
...Mess in Iraq...