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...militias. Politically, we have tossed the ball to Lakhdar Brahimi and the U.N. But even Brahimi doesn't have much stroke. The real governing authority in Iraq appears to be the Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, who dictated the al-Sadr solution last week, and in effect vetoed the interim constitution the U.S. proposed and will, no doubt, have final say over Brahimi's new government. The President pretends that none of this is happening. Most Americans sense the President is just pretending, and they are impatiently waiting for someone to say something real...
...position, which will be called Director of University Counseling, Academic Support and Mental Health Services, was recommended by the task force in its March interim report as a way to better coordinate the school’s disparate mental health resources...
...interim we have no idea how he is being treated,” Genser said...
...Iraqi government could substantially alter the nature and definition of their mission, and would certainly be counterintuitive to the way the Bush administration has conducted its national security policy in the past. At the same time, launching major combat operations without the explicit authorization of the Iraqi interim government would drastically undermine the credibility of such a government in the eyes of its own people. But somewhere between the two poles are the solutions being developed on the ground by combat commanders - solutions that are often somewhat discordant with the rhetoric out of Washington. President Bush, for example, rails against...
...Arab world's first democracy. When those leaders turned out to have no followers except in Washington, the U.S. quietly tossed the entire political puzzle into the hands of a U.N. envoy named Lakhdar Brahimi and signaled, without saying so, that it would accept just about any group of interim leaders he can get into place by June 30, the date for the long-awaited hand-off of power to the Iraqis...