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...freedom reign!" GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, in a note after being informed that sovereign power in Iraq had been officially passed to the Iraqis...
...insurgency under control. Just as the Coalition forces are hoping that the new government puts an Iraqi face on security operations, so will the new government be relying on those forces, principally the U.S., to be the most important prop of its own security strategy. But how the sovereign government and the U.S. forces that operate on its turf are to coordinate decisions on security matters has, for the most part, yet to be worked out. As much as it depends on U.S. security backing, the government's credibility in the eyes of ordinary Iraqis depends in no small part...
...armed revolt in Fallujah and the Shiite southern cities of Najaf and Karbala had left hundreds dead, and made key towns virtual no-go areas for both U.S. soldiers and the fledgling Iraqi forces. Worse, time was running out. U.S. officials had made the June 30 date for transferring sovereign authority an inviolable deadline. The terms on which U.S. forces would operate in the country after the hand-over were unclear, but they had been forced to fill gaps across the country as Iraqi policemen and soldiers had fled their posts during the Spring offensive. And that had forced...
...critical for the Administration and the viability of the interim government. The U.S. has desperately tried to accommodate Ayatullah Sistani--the symbol of what senior Bush advisers see as the Shi'ite silent majority, a group they believe is impatient with the occupation but willing to support a sovereign government if it is seen as legitimate. Reducing the violence in the Sunni triangle and the south will, Administration officials hope, buttress their case that it's safe for the U.N. to throw its support behind the new government. A senior Administration official told TIME that the U.S. expects a Security...
...expect that on the 30th of June, midnight, 135,000 American soldiers are going to evaporate out of some Aladdin's lamp out of Iraq, then that is not going to happen. And what I am also saying every day is, You need to sit down now as a sovereign government to see what the American soldiers are going to do, what they are allowed to do, what they are not allowed to do, and how they are going to be phased out of your country...