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BBC, naturally.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3268527.stm

"Amid mounting casualties, France - which led opposition at the invasion of Iraq - has called for an urgent change of American strategy in the country.
Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said a provisional Iraqi Government must be set up by the end of the year."

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"US Secretary of State Colin Powell said consultations in Washington this week with the US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, had been aimed at speeding up the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq and there could be "modifications" to current policy.
"Ambassador Bremer's consultations... will lead to a plan that will accelerate the process but it will be along the basic, fundamental lines that we have laid out from the beginning," he told reporters on Thursday. "

Frist told Bremer is coming to town, told to keep the Dem's busy till he's gone. Period. End of report. Smoke and mirrors. Harry Reid knew it and said so at the beginning.