White House Admits Failure of Iraq Caucus Plan

[TacticalPeek]

White House Admits Failure of Iraq Caucus Plan
Fri February 20, 2004 03:09 PM ET

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration
acknowledged on Friday that its ambitious plan to transfer
sovereignty directly to a democratically elected government in
Iraq was unlikely to succeed, after Iraqis insisted on elections
untainted by U.S. influence.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the
administration's initial plan for an interim, democratically elected government through a
complicated series of 18 regional caucuses had failed to pass muster with Iraqi leaders.

"There's wide recognition that the caucus plan is something that has not received much
support," he told reporters. "This is becoming more and more of an Iraqi-driven process."

Barely four months before the June 30 transfer of sovereignty by the U.S.-led Coalition Authority, the White House said it was talking to Iraqi leaders
about new options for leaving the Muslim country with a "representative, transitional government" while awaiting recommendations from the United
Nations.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4405731


Gotta like that headline writer.

[htuttle]

1. That's a telling first paragraph....

The Bush administration
acknowledged on Friday that its ambitious plan to transfer
sovereignty directly to a democratically elected government in
Iraq was unlikely to succeed, after Iraqis insisted on elections
untainted by U.S. influence.

They rejected our plan for a 'democracy', due to their insistence on having democratic elections.

[underpants]

2. Hell the headline was shocking enough "White House Admit failure........"

Anyone know what the weather is like in hell?

[Kagemusha]

3. You do know there was 2 feet of snow in Israel & Jordan lately?

Dude, hell froze over.

'Nuff said.

[joanski01]

4. The only way this White House

admits failure is when they want it to fail. Democracy for Iraq!!! One of their lies come true!!!! I don't think so.

[calimary]

7. The only other way they do it is via the Friday night news dump.

How convenient. So it'll all have "gone away" by Monday morning's news cycles.

[central scrutinizer]

5. what gall!

We ought to invade them and take over the country to show them who's boss! Oh, we already tried that.

[JoFerret]

6. And we will probably have to do it again

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[muriel_volestrangler]

8. A disappointingly biased report from Reuters

Twice they refer to the US plans as 'democratic elections', when they were nothing of the sort. They were selected people selecting a 'new' (in reality, probably the same Council as at present) regime.

About as democratic as Britain in 1776 ...