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...Discerning who is credible and who is corrupt requires trial and error. The night before the conclave, Garner met with exile leader Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress. He would not be attending in the morning--in many quarters there is deep opposition to him as a Pentagon puppet--but Garner wanted a chance to hear Chalabi's take on the situation. Pressed and proper in a tie and herringbone jacket, despite more than a week of living in a crumbling warehouse, Chalabi told the American proconsul the looting must be stopped so that citizens would feel safe...
...course, in the long run, Iraqis will not live by bread alone. Only a transition towards a form of representative self-government will ensure the lasting stability and prosperity of their country, and a ruler who is seen by ordinary Iraqis as an American puppet will have no chance of survival. President Bush used a number of different justifications for invading Iraq, but he ultimately rationalized his policies as a way to liberate the Iraqi people, as shown by choosing to label the project “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” True freedom, however, will never come...
...dozens of powerful tribes, religious organizations and ethnic groups, as well as exiles, are jockeying to fill the vacuum. The U.S. has to be careful. It's just possible that the worst thing Washington could do is handpick a winner, who would be tainted as an American puppet. The dangers of that were apparent in Najaf, where the mob murder of a pro-American Shi'ite cleric last week showed how lethal such an image...
...fine as far as I was concerned because he came out and worked,” says Tom Newell, known in his political puppet show as the character Uncle Scam. “He did something no one else was doing... Most of your balloon guys sit there with a tank of air. Perri blew up his own balloons...
Stopover, the newest project of writer, director, actor, cartoonist, sculptor and jack-of-all-trades Emily J. Carmichael ’03, opens this weekend in the Loeb Experimental Theater (Ex). Carmichael’s past credits include The Puppet Macbeth in the Adams House Kronauer Space...