U.S 'to appoint Iraqi leadership'

In the ever unique logic of the U.S, the solution to the growing frustration among Iraqis towards the coalition is to scrap the idea of free democratic elections and appoint the leaders themselves.

Yes. That'll work..

This raises so many questions. For a start it's the one thing the U.S was adamant it would not do. Is it a needed reaction to the current political situation in Iraq? (Unaided by the U.S handling of the volatile political components of Iraq) Or is it a fearful realisation that the government the Iraqis would vote in would not be to U.S liking?

Or is it deliberate, the plan all along, making Iraq into a puppet state and a reliable exporter of black gold?

I think it's largely option two, the realisation that the clerics hold as much power in Iraq as they do in most Muslim nations, and a free vote would see the instigation of a hard line Islamic regime. I find it hard to believe that the U.S is a stupid as to not to know this could have well been the case before the war, which makes the deliberate option not so unlikely...

"Plans to allow a national conference of Iraqi groups to elect an interim administration may be scrapped, a senior US official in the country has suggested.
Instead, he said, a political council made up of 25 to 30 Iraqis may be appointed following consultation between the US-led coalition authorities and political and religious groups."

news.bbc.co.uk...

*note my deliberate diplomatic benefit-of-the-doubt tone there* hee hee.

Yeah, as we've all been suspecting. The US can't afford to allow democracy into Iraq, so I don't think it'll even try.

Did you also notice that Iraqi oil is now going to be sold in advance too? Basically the US interim administration are going to take out loans for the new government using future oil production as capital. One more thing they said they would not do. "The Iraqi oil is for the Iraqi people". Pah. More like "The Iraqi oil is for our rich contractor friends".

And you are surprised?

I saw this comming before the war ever started.

U dont build up some 200,000 troops in the region simply to go in, oust, and leave.thats an occupational force. Plain and simple.

All the other crap is just formailities. There was never any plan to let Iraq elect its own govornment. before even troops were deployed, there was talk about who would the out in charge?

Not an Iraqi, thats for sure.