Powell remarks on "limited powers" to Iraqis a mistake - Brahimi

[htuttle]

BAGHDAD, May 12 (KUNA) -- UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi Wednesday stressed that US authorities had informed him that remarks by Colin Powell that the authorities to be handed over to Iraqis would be limited, included unfortunate choice of word.

The statements came during a series of meetings Brahimi held with senior Iraqi figures, intellectuals and representatives of civil-society organizations and the press, with KUNA's correspondent present.

Brahimi said the UN had criticized use of this expression and insisted authorities at any country should always be in the hands of the people with no exception. The envoy added the new Iraqi government shall also decide the fate of 150,000 foreign military officers currently in Iraq.

Brahimi expressed distress over the media campaign and press statements against him personally. He also said it is too early to be preoccupied with finding a role to play in the new government, as IGC members are doing, when no follow up committees had been formed yet to handle handing over of authorities.  

http://www.kuna.net.kw/English/Story.asp?Dsno=630668

Didn't Bush say on the TV that Lakhdar Brahimi was going to figure out things in Iraq? Will Bush heed his wishes? More importantly, will Cheney and Rumsfeld heed Brahimi's wishes? BTW, I had to go to Kuwait by way of Russia to find this article. Haven't heard a word about it in the US.

[drb]

1. I kinda think that "Limited Sovereignity"...

....is like "Limited Virginity"

[SlavesandBulldozers]

3. exactly

more neo-con word-play. Welcome DRB

[pinto]

2. what an effin' deadly dance everyone is doing with Iraq.

Chalabi, senior, says one thing, Brahimi says another, Powell says another, every other military commander on the ground disagrees with every other, the Pentagon disagrees with State, Chalabi, the nephew say another and gets shot down by State.

This is bartering on a scale I've never seen and it is costing us and the Iraqi's and the coalition of the duped a lot of lives.

[Terran]

4. June 30 is a train wreck waitng to happen

Brahimi has gone on record as saying that he expects FULL sovereignty to be handed over on 6/30, but this is clearly not the admin's plan--they're going to continue to control the military, foreign policy, diplomacy, all sorts of vital functions. This is all out there in public, and it's rapidly becoming the two-ton elephant in Iraq's living room (mixing my metaphors, sorry!).

[Eye and Monkey]

6. Your metaphors are just fine. It's the elephants that are the problem.

edit: sorry, that "illegal code" photo is of Junior, in Africa, on safari, doing a monkey-boy grin while watching elephants humping.

[Eurobabe]

5. the right hand does not know what the left

hand is wanting or doing over there, who the f*ck is in CHARGE???? what a mess. i was not in favor of cutting and running, but now I am, because the inevitable is going to happen regardless -- civil war.