Do as we say, not as we do

The Bush administration is losing patience with the self-interest and sluggishness of Iraq's Governing Council and is considering finding an alternative, a paper reported on Sunday.

US officials think members of the US-appointed IGC, under interim president Jalal Talabani, are too focused on their own interests and moving too slowly to draft a new constitution - a US prerequisite for a power handover - the Washington Post said, citing senior US officials.

"We're unhappy with all of them. They're not acting as a legislative or governing body, and we need to get moving," a US official quoted by the paper said. article

Ha. We appointed 'em. I suspect we chose them by standards that we find useful in our own Congress people and other administrative sycophantic sleezeballs. We shouldn't expect them, then, to behave any differently.

US and French officials said the United States was considering a French proposal, rejected earlier, to create an interim Iraqi leadership similar to the government formed in postwar Afghanistan, according to the paper.

Cue your double-take.

Yes, that does say considering a previously rejected French proposal.

Who's gonna be eating the cheese when this is all over?

I don't think they should let little Napoleon Bonehead off nearly as easily as they're undoubtedly going to, either. I think he's gonna just get to prance around like the spoiled ignoramus he is, while everybody else tries to clean up his mess.

[T]he paper also said US officials were exploring the possibility of creating a provisional authority to govern until a new constitution was written and elections held, which would mark a departure from Washington's position that a new constitution was needed before power would be turned over.

"If our exit is going to take longer, if it looks like it could go more than two years to get it all done, then there's an incentive to look into a transitional phase and some other governing mechanism," the paper quoted a US State Department official as saying.

I guess they figure any more than two years, and Georgie & Pals would be tossed out on their collective ear, even as they assume a "re-election" in '04.

Adil Abd al-Mahdi, a council member from the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, told the paper that the US would have to be patient. "Figuring out how to write the constitution is the most important thing we will do. We have to make sure we take the time to do this right," he said.

Adil, you just don't get it, do you?

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.