US may delay Iraq power handover

[Whoa_Nelly]

The United States has hinted it might put off the planned deadline for transferring power in Iraq if the United Nations recommends a delay.

Officials on Wednesday said Washington had every intention of adhering to the 30 June handover agreed by the US-led occupation and the Iraqi interim leadership but added there was "room" for the date to be put off if the UN desired

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UN chief Kofi Annan said on Tuesday he would soon be sending a team of experts to Iraq in a bid to resolve the increasingly contentious dispute over how power should be transferred.

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But the plan has triggered strong protests from Iraq's majority Shia community, which is demanding direct national elections.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/039B5067-4421-4C18-AD83-71A57B757106.htm

[indepat]

1. Anything you want, UN, anything at all: you got it!

[mike_c]

2. we hand over authority, but keep 100,000 occupation troops...

in country. Yeah, that's the ticket.... Instant democracy!

[0007]

5. gotta guard the booty with inexpenive fire power, 'eh?

[Rex]

3. In other words, we are staying in Iraq

nt

[HawkerHurricane]

4. Tom Lehrer

"They've got to protected
All thier rights respected
Until somebody we LIKE can be elected!" - 'Send the Marines!'

[leesa]

6. Kucinich has the only solution to this mess

Have the UN international peacekeeping troops take over immediately to re-build their country. ALL US troops out. ALL US businesses out.

The ONLY US role is to pay reparations for the damage we inflicted on an innocent country. We will pay for a long time.