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11-04-2003, 03:33 PM
new details for what he called “town meetings” across Iraq that are intended to help identify new Iraqi leaders who could work with U.S. authorities and begin a lengthy process for establishing democratic rule.
His remarks provided the most specific picture so far of just how U.S. officials intend to restore a measure of stability and initiate a new process of self-rule. He said a meeting planned for next week in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah with a broad range of Iraqis is meant to start a “rolling dialogue” that would “define issues” and enable Iraqis to get a sense of “who are the people that can articulate positions well, who seem to speak for more than just themselves.”
The meetings will be hosted by Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, and will be organized in partnership with Britain, Australia and Poland, the other countries with substantial ground forces in the country.
This is the way to go. There is no reason for the UN to control Iraqis oil. France and Russia are just going to have to live with the fact that their deals with Saddam don't give them the right to Iraqis oil.
His remarks provided the most specific picture so far of just how U.S. officials intend to restore a measure of stability and initiate a new process of self-rule. He said a meeting planned for next week in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah with a broad range of Iraqis is meant to start a “rolling dialogue” that would “define issues” and enable Iraqis to get a sense of “who are the people that can articulate positions well, who seem to speak for more than just themselves.”
The meetings will be hosted by Gen. Tommy R. Franks, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, and will be organized in partnership with Britain, Australia and Poland, the other countries with substantial ground forces in the country.
This is the way to go. There is no reason for the UN to control Iraqis oil. France and Russia are just going to have to live with the fact that their deals with Saddam don't give them the right to Iraqis oil.