BBC (early Monday): US 'wants Iraq council scrapped'

[Jack Rabbit]

From the BBC Online
Dated Monday November 10 01:33 GMT (Sunday 6:33 pm PST)

US 'wants Iraq council scrapped'
By David Bamford
BBC correspondent in Washington

Reports from the United States suggest the Bush administration has become so frustrated with the Iraqi Governing Council, it may be looking to scrap it.
The Washington Post newspaper quotes a senior US official as saying the administration has become alarmed at the IGC's failure to make important decisions.
According to the paper, the US is actively looking for an alternative strategy.
It has reportedly become frustrated by individual members on the US-appointed council who, officials say, spend all their time promoting private agendas rather than making important collective decisions.

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The junta can't even control their own puppets.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

1. Sounds like the Bush administration

"spend all their time promoting private agendas rather than making important collective decisions."

[rfranklin]

7. Why can't they follow the party line?

All of the Republicans and half the Democrats follow the party line here. The least the Iraqis could do is follow suit. After all, they are free now!

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Bah! Let's just go with the tried and true. What Iraq needs....

...is an American-friendly dictator who will restore order with an iron fist and fight off those pesky Iranians that keep causing us trouble. Maybe we could even loan this new guy some nifty new weapons to help him?

Any takers?

[w13rd0]

3. I hear...

...Duke is willing.

[Old and In the Way]

8. Hey, I know this unemployed dictator with a great resume.

He'd be perfect for this job.....oh, that's right, the US fired him.

[Scott Lee]

12. The USA could always REHIRE Saddam!

Whaddaythink?

[legin]

13. There was that guy that was under house arrest

in Denmark because he was on trial for war crimes, who was spirited out of Denmark with his family. Havn't heard anything about him recently and can't remember his name, but he was military so he could get a new Iraqi army to accept his control perhaps.

Might be worth a little trip to the bookies.

[legin]

14. I think this is the guy

This is his Wanted Poster from the Interpol site from i think 2001, so he is looking good for me. ;-)

Could be a bit old though.

http://www.interpol.int/public/wanted/notices/data/2001/96/2001_37796.asp

[DBoon]

16. I have someone I'd like to volunteer for this position

He is the new recently elected California governor. He has the same excellent qualifications to run Iraq that he has to run CA.

[Fenris]

4. What? An amalgam of various religious, political and ethnic groups

can't make a collective decision and instead seek to advance their own agendas by "playing politics"? Sounds like Iraq really does have a U.S. style democracy in all its dysfunctional glory!

[Liberal Veteran]

5. The funny (or perhaps not) thing is that no matter what...

...if they get a social/political/religious majority in charge like the one we have in the US, things are really gonna suck in Iraq.

[MO_Dem]

6. Is Duhbya

going to end up begging Saddam to come back and take Iraq off his hands?

[loudnclear]

10. That is toooo funny!

But it has its merits.

[KeepItReal]

11. Who's "Saddam"? OH! You must mean the "Dead-ender"...

...that Bush & Co. can't seem to find.

Can you think of wars that the U.S. fought where we totally invaded and defeated a military foe, but *didn't* kill or capture or exile to some other country the leader of the enemy that was defeated?

[PurityOfEssence]

17. Siegfried and George havin' a little trouble with their kitty-cat?

tsk tsk tsk

[TheWebHead]

9. where's the story in the Post?

what WP article is BBC referring to?

[Melinda]

15. WP:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17199-2003Nov8.html