Many See Iraq Council As Being Ineffective

[Khephra]

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- It's moving slowly on important issues. It meets only three times a week. Some of its key members are too busy or too worried about their personal safety to attend sessions. Other members spend weeks traveling abroad.

Three months after its appointment by the U.S.-led coalition, the 25-member Governing Council has cultivated an image among ordinary Iraqis as a largely ineffective body hampered by divisions, partisan politics and unable to make a significant contribution to improving the lives of Iraqis.

"We are very disappointed about the slow pace at which the council works," a senior official from the U.S.-led Coalition Transitional Authority said on condition of anonymity.

However, L. Paul Bremer, America's top official in Iraq, remains supportive, at least in public. "We take the Governing Council seriously," he told a news conference last week. "We don't see eye to eye on everything, (but) we respect each other."

In private, according to another coalition official, Bremer has become frustrated at what he sees as the council's reluctance, or lack of interest, to tackle urgent business and follow up on some of the decisions it has made.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-governing-council,0,5512352.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[saigon68]

1. Its a LAPDOG Puppet Government.

What else can you say about it. Its certainly not in charge of anything. It fools no one outside the US. It has no international legitimacy.

[reprobate]

2. That's no lap dog. That's a porcupine.

Funny how when they started to make decisions that were opposed to what the junta commanded, they are now persona non grata. How quickly the fascists turn on you.

[cthrumatrix]

3. It's easy...if they agree with the US...they can get killed...so

which would you decide....shrub liking you..or being accountable to the millions of Iraq's with thier eyes on you...ready to take you out ...if you sell out?

[emad]

4. It must be modelled on Camden Council, North London

if the first para of your posting is anything to go by......except that Camden corruption make the old Iraqi regime seem like a haven of liberality...

They don't call it Tony Blair's 'flagship' for nothing.....

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Bremer's hand picked quislings

They are Iraqi traitors worthy of no respect from anybody.