Iraqis doubt transition plan will end US control

NNN0LHI

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Sun Nov-16-03 08:24 AM
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Iraqis doubt transition plan will end US control

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LYO633426.htm

BAGHDAD, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Baghdad residents responded sceptically on Sunday to U.S. plans for a faster political handover in postwar Iraq, saying any government would be under America's thumb as long as U.S. forces remain.

The blueprint was unveiled on Saturday by Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council, but there were no illusions it was home-grown and plenty of doubt over what it could achieve.

"It's a plan drawn up by the American government," taxi-driver Mohammed Karim, 32, said. "The Governing Council achieved nothing for the Iraqi people, so nobody will recognise the next government either," he said.

"Everything is in the hands of the occupation forces and the Iraqi people refuse all kinds of occupation."

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catmandu57

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Sun Nov-16-03 08:38 AM
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1. According to what I heard

on i june our status goes from "occupier" to "guest". What does anyone want to bet that the guests are killed just as fiercely as the occupiers.

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alcuno

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Sun Nov-16-03 08:51 AM
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4. This is what I've always said the plan was. Install a puppet

governement who then ASKS us to stay. We will be there forever. Why were the bases taken out of Saudi Arabia? To be moved to Iraq.

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Bob3

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Sun Nov-16-03 09:13 AM
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6. Another brown acid viet-nam flashback.

if you remeber we were in Viet Nam at the invitation of the goverment of South Viet Nam a group we hand picked as well.

And we all know how well that worked out.

bring them home.

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Capt_Nemo

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Sun Nov-16-03 09:23 AM
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7. That was the Soviets' claim in Afghanistan

Edited on Sun Nov-16-03 09:24 AM by Capt_Nemo

They were "invited" as "guests" to help the afghans against a
"counter-revolutionary" coup.

The parallels are striking!

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54anickel

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Sun Nov-16-03 08:39 AM
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2. Sad, seems this plan will do nothing to make our troops safer.

I hate to see the Iraqi people get caught up in civil war, but our presence there is doing much more harm than good, costing lives on all sides.

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truthisfreedom

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Sun Nov-16-03 08:44 AM
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3. i'm sorry people, but, is there some kind of problem?

i mean, we are occupiers, ok? so let us do our thing and occupy! whoever heard of an occupation that was kind or just or reasonable or didn't blow your mom's head off? lay off, ok? sheesh!

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Sun Nov-16-03 08:53 AM
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5. No shit Sherlock!

"but there were no illusions it was home-grown and plenty of doubt over what it could achieve."

Americans may be "Foxified" here, but the Iraqi people are living it. There is no dusting it off and spraying it with perfume. They know exactly what it is. Pure unadulterated bullshit!!!!

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cliss

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Sun Nov-16-03 11:43 AM
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8. So as of next June, Iraq

will be given self-rule and supposedly make its own decisions about oil contracts, business contracts and such. Oh, OK.

In the meantime, US forces will still be in the area, to make sure the "independently chosen" Iraqi government stays afloat. Most probably there will be americans behind the scene in the government building in Baghdad.

This reminds me of our own country. There is a shadow government, lurking behind the "front" of George Bush.

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