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None of this guarantees that Chalabi will emerge at the top. Several U.S. officials say they hope to institute a rule that those who serve on the I.I.A. cannot run for office in the first elections. In the end, the Defense Department, according to a senior aide to Rumsfeld, is more interested in leaving Iraq quickly than in picking its future leaders. "There will be people with credible claims to be able to lead various parts of the country," he says, "and our view is, Great, let them sort that out." Sorting out Iraq's fractious polity will challenge...
That was a happy moment at the White House, where months of global arm wrestling and weeks of second-guessing were finally shelved. Vice President Dick Cheney said, "The conclusion of the war will mark one of the most extraordinary military campaigns ever conducted." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the events "breathtaking," even as he was careful not to declare victory while soldiers were still fighting and civilians were still dying and prisoners of war were still missing. "Let there be no doubt," he said. "This is not over, despite all the celebrations on the street...
...resentment and retribution against the network of stoolies, spies and party apparatchiks--is part of the de-Baathification that both critics and proponents of the invasion had insisted would ultimately be necessary. There was no telling how many party leaders had escaped, whether they fled to Syria, as Rumsfeld suggested they had, or were holed up in Tikrit, preparing to mount one last showdown. By the end of the week, the Pentagon was handing out decks of playing cards with the faces of the most-wanted Iraqi leaders, so the soldiers could play go fish...
...security forces. U.S. intelligence believes Syria allowed men and materiel--including night-vision goggles--to cross its border and join Saddam's forces during the war. When asked last week what he would do if Saddam's weapons of mass destruction were spirited to Syria, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld replied in his vulpine way that the question would be addressed "if and when the point arrives." British sources seem convinced that some of Saddam's weapons scientists have fled to Syria, which is one reason why the British--who are careful not to say anything bad about Iran--are quite...
Diplomacy may not have averted war with Iraq, but it brought a truce in a nasty food fight last week in Washington. The skirmishing began last month, when Congressman Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican, gathered signatures from 59 of his fellow lawmakers for a letter asking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to cancel the $881 million contract of a company called Sodexho to cater 55 Marine mess halls. Reason: Sodexho is the U.S. subsidiary of a French company. "I think you will agree that it is inconsistent for us to continue to pour billions of dollars into the French economy...