Official: Iraqi Government won't include legislature

[Euphen]

Official previews new Iraqi government
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Thursday, April 22, 2004 Posted: 7:35 PM EDT (2335 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A proposed interim government that could assume power in Iraq on June 30 would "represent the diversity of Iraq" but would not include any legislature until elections could be held, a State Department official said Thursday.

"We don't believe that the period between the first of July and the end of December should be a time for making new laws," Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman said.

"The structure of the government should be effective, simple and, in order to avoid deadlock, should not be overly large," he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Grossman said the plan put forward by U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi would be led by a president, two vice presidents and a prime minister. It would have a council of ministers to work with the prime minister and an advisory council selected by a national conference.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/22/iraq.main/index.html

[Zynx]

1. Wouldn't that make it a dictatorship essentially?

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Make it that much easier....

...for the US to dictate what the "sovereign government" does.

Jeez.

[havocmom]

3. Jeeze, do they learn nothing? In 20 years we will be fighting whomever

it is we enthrone today. Damn, there is a serious learning disability with these clowns.

[leQ]

4. if there are no laws

then there can't be any criminals, right?

[Minstrel Boy]

5. Sounds like a Bushista blueprint for America.

"The structure of the government should be effective, simple and, in order to avoid deadlock, should not be overly large"

If you ever see the Capitol collapse in what looks like a controlled demolition, it's your future.

[daleo]

6. Would the U.S. have accepted this from George III in 1776?

A proposed interim government ... would not include any legislature..., a State Department official said Thursday.

To strip a garbage statement to its essence.