New Iraq government clone of old

[struggle4progress]

Lahkdar Brahimi, the U.N. special envoy in Iraq, will have some explaining to do when he appears before the Security Council, possibly as early Friday. As he left for Baghdad charged with forming an interim government to take over on June 30 he said he planned to recruit technocrats unconnected with the Iraqi Governing Council.

What has emerged after "frantic, grueling days of politicking in Baghdad" -- as a European diplomat in New York put it Wednesday -- is a government in which the IGC has risen like the phoenix from the ashes of its own disbanding.
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President Bush Tuesday said Washington had had little to do with the final selection of an interim government. "Brahimi was the person who put together the group," Bush said. Diplomats in New York and Washington said this did not seem to be entirely the case. In some of the key appointments in the past few days Brahimi seemed to be lagging behind the action.
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Meanwhile, the new interim government faces the challenge of public acceptance. The first reaction was consistent with today's Iraq. Within minutes of the al Yawar announcement bombs and mortar shells exploded in the Iraqi capital. On Wednesday, the onslaught continued with a car bomb in a Baghdad suburb that claimed at least two lives.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040602-080854-6347r

Moonie spin seems to be: blame Brahimi.

[montanacowboy]

1. If Brahami had any integrity

he never would have accepted the job in the first place - why do these people from the UN now bend over backward to make the Chimp look good? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! give me a break. Let them sink on their own.

Now the UN will be blamed if the government fails. And Chimpy will be running all over Europe next week, kissing the asses of everyone and anyone so he can con them into propping up the failed Iraqi state. Tell him to pound sand - stop trying to make him look good. The sooner he fails on a massive scale(even bigger than he has) the better for the world - haven't they gotten that yet?

[bemildred]

2. I'm just thinking back to a month or so ago ...

Remember the stories about how the new Fully Sovereign(tm)
government would have nothing to do with the discredited governing
council? Whatever happened to that idea, anyway?

The CPA will be lucky if this wounded duck flies far enough to
take part in the handover ceremony, and there is no chance in hell
that it will ever exercise any effective governance over Iraq.