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US dilemma: how to govern Iraq?

 

Why then have the American forces fallen short of this key requirement? It may be so because British forces are experienced in peace keeping. .
             A month after the fall of Baghdad, the US had proposed a financial management plan for adoption by the UN Security Council. While it called for an immediate lifting of UN sanctions against Iraq, it sought control of Iraqi economy by the victors of the war for 12 months, to begin with. All oil revenues would go into a proposed Iraqi Assistance Fund until such time that a new Iraqi government was installed. .
             The Fund would have an international advisory board with representatives of the UN Secretary General, the IMF, and the World Bank. The board would also appoint independent auditors. Needless to stress, What the IMF and the World Bank can advise will be no different from Washington's viewpoint. So, it is the one representative of Kofi Annan that would make the board "international". .
             According to the proposal, the oil revenues are to be disbursed by an Authority comprising the US and the British forces and the "administration." It is unclear if this administration is the Iraqi interim administration or the US administration under Paul Bremer. However, the proposal did say that the oil revenues in the Fund would be "spent at the direction of the occupying power in consultation with an Iraqi interim administration." .
             If external financing is sought, it is the Iraqi interim administration that would determine its terms and the sources. This administration would, therefore, have a key role in the proposed Authority if it is Iraq's self-governance that is aimed at genuinely sooner rather than later. .
             The first meeting of Iraq's representatives was held in Nassariya soon after the fall of Baghdad on April 9 under the chairmanship of Jay Garner. This meeting was conspicuous by the absence of a representative of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SAIRI) whose leader was in exile in Tehran for the last 23 years.


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