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...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 allies aren't satisfied. After meeting last week in Arbil, in northern Iraq, members of the leadership council called Bremer's modified plan "insufficient." Some factions, including the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.), told TIME they may refuse to cooperate with the council. "We wish them the best of luck...
...deceit that turn into a torrent as elements of the bureaucracy step over each other in the race for the exits, and then finally a scandal worthy of the suffix "-gate". Of course the imbroglio over the Bush Administration's failure to find the evidence to back its scary prewar claims about the threat to America supposedly posed by Saddam Hussein has not yet reached the point of critical mass that would leave editors scratching their heads over just what noun to put before that suffix - Iraq-gate? Saddam-gate? War-gate? What is already marking the current unraveling...
...course, if its credibility were being measured by the various statements of the Vice President in the months and weeks preceding the war, most notably his March 16 statement that "We believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." (See The Sydney Morning Herald for a useful catalogue of prewar claims made by leaders of the "coalition of the willing...
...None of this has particularly deterred President Bush, and why would it when polls find that upward of 80 percent of Americans still believe the Administration's prewar claims on Iraqi WMD and one-third even believe WMD have actually been found in Iraq. It would appear that President Bush himself may be among that third: Three weeks ago, Bush told a Polish TV interviewer that "we have found the weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq. That came as news to even his staunchest allies - the president appeared to be referring to two trailer-mounted laboratories that...
...person political council that will answer to him; U.S. officials told Time they hope to name councilors by the end of the 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 allies aren't satisfied. After meeting in Arbil, in northern Iraq, last week, members of the leadership council called Bremer's modified plan "insufficient." Some factions, including the Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.), told TIME they may refuse to cooperate with the council. "We wish them the best of luck," says Nabil...