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...People forget it took us 12 years to write our own constitution. It wasn't very pretty around here either between 1776 and 1787." PAUL BREMER, former top U.S. administrator in Iraq, in a TV interview in which he described Iraq's new democracy as "sloppy and messy...
...political bias resonate more deeply. The Iraqi Special Tribunal is not an international court. It was created - and its judges selected - by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council. Salem Chalabi, the nephew of the once omnipresent opposition figure Ahmad Chalabi, was handpicked by former U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer to be its director. The U.S. government funds the tribunal, the fbi helps gather evidence and 20 U.S. lawyers support the prosecution. Saddam's court appearance was a concession to international law: the third Geneva Convention requires that prisoners of war be either charged or released at the end of hostilities...
...call with Allawi from Istanbul, Turkey-where Bush is attending a summit of NATO leaders-Bush said it was okay to go forward the next morning if the security situation permitted. After phone calls early this morning from National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice to Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer in Iraq to make sure that the coast was clear, the decision was made to push forward. And after Bremer handed a blue document binder to Allawi in a small ceremony deep in the fortified Green Zone, it became official that Iraq was its own country and the U.S. immediately...
...police training and capability is seriously lacking. U.S. efforts, possibly assisted by NATO, will be intensified in coming months. But Allawi has some ideas of his own that are somewhat at odds with the script followed by the U.S. over the past year. He has been fiercely critical of Bremer's decision last year to summarily dissolve the Iraqi military, and has said he plans as quickly as possible to reverse its effect by quickly remobilizing and rearming some divisions of the old army...
...ravaged Iraq for the past 15 months. And the new prime minister also plans to resurrect whole divisions of Saddam's old army to help him do it. The insurgency does not represent the only challenge on the road to elections, however - although the departing U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer has left in place mechanisms for Allawi and his allies to tightly control who may and may not participate in the election process and on what terms, those are rejected by important Iraqi constituencies. For example, the radical cleric Moqtada Sadr has made clear that he will use his street...