U.S. backs new Iraq leaders, says they are not puppets

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01358074.htm

WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush threw his support behind the leaders of Iraq's newly formed interim government on Tuesday and his national security adviser said they were not "America's puppets." snip

Rice dismissed any suggestion the United States was unhappy with the outcome of the internal machinations. "Surprise, surprise, politics has broken out in Iraq," she said.

As for complaints from some of the new Iraqi leaders about the U.S. occupation, Rice said: "These are not America's puppets. These are independent-minded Iraqis who are determined to take their country to security and democracy."

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[acmavm]

1. Okay, time to start looking for their little Howdy Doodey strings.

I'll believe that this is an independent government when I win the Miss Universe trophy. Believe me, ain't neither gonna happen.

[Disturbed]

2. More Bushite!

Full Sovereignty?

"Throughout the spring, as hundreds died in the spiraling conflict, as Regime bosses applied their hardcore "anti-terrorist" tortures to innocent bystanders raked up in their occupation nets, as Regime mouthpieces prated endlessly of "liberation" and "sovereignty," Bush viceroy Paul Bremer was quietly signing a series of edicts that will give the United States effective control over the military, ministries -- and money -- of any Iraqi government, for years to come."

The Wall Street Journal reports.

Bremer has placed U.S.-appointed "commissions" made up of Americans and local puppets throughout Iraqi government agencies; the ministers supposedly in charge weren't even told of the edicts. These boards "will serve multiyear terms and have significant authority to run criminal investigations, award contracts, direct troops and subpoena citizens," the Journal reports. Any new Iraqi government "will have little control over its armed forces, lack the ability to make or change laws and be unable to make major decisions within specific ministries without tacit U.S. approval, say U.S. officials."


Earlier Bremer edicts laid the Iraqi economy wide open to ruthless exploitation by Bush-approved foreign "investors"; dominance of such key sectors as banking, communications -- and energy -- is already well advanced. The latest dictates aim to ensure that this organized looting goes on, no matter what kind of makeshift "interim government" the United Nations manage to piece together. Bush's plans to build a Saddamite fortress embassy in Baghdad and 14 permanent military bases around the country are designed to provide the knee-breaking "security" for these lucrative arrangements



http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/21/120.html

[struggle4progress]

11. Worth a read!

[sniffa]

3. you said doodey

there's stiLL a possibiLity that it's a muppet government.

[pinniped]

4. Well if * supports them they must be puppets...

Here in Bizarro world ruled by czar * the opposite proves to be the truth.

What about that riot act crap the L(oser). P(utz) Bummer pulled the other day?

[amber dog democrat]

5. Everything we touch there turns to dust.

Of course the government is and will be puppets.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Litmus test.

Who controls the oil? When the answer is Iraq, then we can say that Iraq has a representitive government.

[Just Me]

7. Why on earth would Rice defend against puppet-mastery?

Hmmmmm.

:evilgrin:

[dusty64]

8. Our regime handpicked them

but they are NOT puppets, they are just extremely cooperative.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Who is paying their salaries?

Who pays for their chauffeurs and SUVs? Who pays for their security? Who pays for their staff and for their employees at the Ministries? It sure ain't Iraq!

He who pays the bills, owns them!

[truthisfreedom]

10. when will bushco learn that more than half the country automatically

assumes that anything bushco claims, the opposite is the truth?

we've seen it so many times that it is simply a given. who are they trying to kid... themselves?