A Shaky, but Important, First Step: The Iraqi Governing Concil Convenes

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Brief piece from the Tehran Times about the first official meeting of the all-Iraqi, multi-ethnicity and ideology IGC. I am somewhat skeptical of this body, as it was hand-picked by the American occupation force, and the coalition governor claims veto power against any given ruling by the IGC. However, it is a start, and these things must start somewhere.

I think that the real test will be the first time the IGC puts forward a rule which disagrees with American policy -- whether or not Bremer vetoes it on the spot, and what if anything the Iraqi people's reaction would be in such an event.

Hopefully, it is a small milestone marking the beginning of the return to peace for the Iraqis. If they can get rid of America without too much violence, they might well end up suprising the rest of the world -- as an extremely well-resourced secular Arab nation without a crazy dictator, there is very little limit to what the Iraqis could do.

Of course, the same could be argued about Turkmenistan, and they have gone nowehre but headifrst into the Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Nexus of Melodramatics along with the rest of Central Asia.

Time will tell.


Phaedrus
 

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