Dohiyi Mir
In Which NTodd Says His Peace
We Win!
CNN:
Iraq will have a new transitional government with full sovereign powers by the end of June 2004, the Iraqi Governing Council said today, and will have a constitution and a permanent, democratically elected government by the end of 2005.
The statement followed a meeting with the U.S.-backed coalition's civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer, who recently met with President Bush. He returned to Baghdad with new proposals for the council aimed at speeding up the transfer of authority to Iraqis.
The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority will dissolve at that time, council authorities said in Saturday's news conference, and "the state of occupation will end."
Well, I guess they sorta listened to me.
File under: declare victory and go home. Cross reference: secret plan to end the war.
ntodd
PS--I'm taking bets on whether Chalabi (pictured below, happy man on the left) will be the strongman referred to by the CSIS:
