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U.S. to retain power in a sovereign Iraq
Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 22, 2004
The United States says Iraq will be sovereign, no longer under military occupation, on June 30. But most power will reside within the world's largest U.S. Embassy, backed by 110,000 U.S. troops. The fledgling Iraqi government will be capable of tackling little more than drawing up a budget and preparing for elections, top U.S. and Iraqi officials say. "We're still here. We'll be paying a lot of attention and we'll have a lot of influence," a top U.S. official said on condition of anonymity. "We're going to have the world's largest diplomatic mission with a significant amount of political weight." In just over three months, the mantle of sovereignty in Iraq will be passed to an interim government. Its composition and the manner of its choosing will be decided after a United Nations team arrives this week. But with Iraqi elections scheduled for December or January, the interim government will last a fleeting seven months at most. Since the U.S.-led occupation regime will have a hand in choosing Iraq's next government, the body will lack a mandate for anything but administrative tasks. Many envision a team of nonpartisan Iraqi technocrats who concentrate on keeping the country functioning. "We don't expect them to enact any laws unless there is absolute need for them," Iraqi Governing Council member Adnan Pachachi said yesterday. "We're not going to enter into any big contractual obligations - either diplomatically or economically - because those things should be done by an elected government."

posted by A Curmudgeon 12:28 PM