Iraqi Politicians say Mulling Temporary Parliament

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&ncid=586&e=11&u=/nm/20031025/wl_nm/iraq_syria_politicians_dc

<snip>DAMASCUS (Reuters) - A group of Iraqi politicians who met a top Syrian official on Saturday said they wanted to seek the creation of a temporary representative body until a parliament can be elected in occupied Iraq.

A spokesman for the 93-strong team representing 14 political groupings said his group opposed the U.S. presence in Iraq "and its tools," in an apparent reference to the U.S.-appointed Governing Council.

The Iraqi team held a three-hour meeting with Syrian Vice President Abdel-Halim Khaddam to discuss ways of "wrenching Iraq out of its dilemma," spokesman Saleh al-Mutlaq told reporters.

Asked about the outcome of the meeting, Mutlaq said: "We have reached an essential issue; the importance of unifying all national powers that agree on certain fundamentals for the formation of a temporary national council until the elections are carried out."

[realFedUp]

1. When the British occupied Iraq

what was the form of government or was there one?
Sorry, I don't know that period of history.