Our new Iraqi colony: William Blum

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http://www.counterpunch.org/blum08232004.html

The Anti-Empire Report
Brave New World of Iraqi Sovereignty
By WILLIAM BLUM

<* US military commanders will continue to exercise final authority over not only these troops (160,000), but also all Iraqi police, security and army units.>

<* Before his departure, the US administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, L. Paul Bremer, issued a raft of edicts. The new interim government has very limited power to change these laws and regulations, one of which is an elections provision that gives a commission the power to disqualify political parties and any of the candidates they support.

* Bremer also appointed at least two dozen selected Iraqis to key government jobs with multi-year terms.>

<* The prime-minister, Ayad Allawi, who was chosen by Bremer, is a former (?) CIA asset. ...>

<* The United States continues to bomb the people of Iraq and smash down their doors wherever and whenever it wishes.>

This blog on counterpunch is well worth a read.