WTF Is It Now?!?

Who is the U.S. trying to fool?
'The situation in Iraq, even by friendly accounts, seems to be deteriorating, and unfriendly accounts in both the British and the French press are scathing.

'Today's Defense Department planners seem to have thought they could decapitate a functioning state administration and afterward give it new orders. Or perhaps they thought the returning exiles would take over the country. How they reconciled this insouciance about the occupation with their simultaneously expressed fears of heavy fighting in Baghdad and other cities is a mystery.
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'Less of a mystery is why they spurned the United Nations, with its extensive apparatus and experience of civil relief and reconstruction. They could have invited the UN in the day the fighting stopped, but they wanted to "punish" and discredit the organization. Such pettiness and hubris square badly with anarchy and cholera.'


Psych!
Gee, another lie by the misadministration. Go figure.

In an abrupt reversal, the Bushies have indefinitely put off their plan to allow Iraqi opposition forces to form a national assembly and an interim government by the end of the month.

Instead, allied officials would remain in charge of Iraq for an indefinite period.

"They retracted what they said before," an Iraqi political figure said. The provisional government idea is gone, and as for the idea of convening a national assembly to select a government, he said, "there is no such thing anymore."

"They are desperate to get the oil pumping," an Iraqi official said. No shit, sherlock. And they want to make sure they are in control of it when it happens.