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To: ChinuSFO who started this subject	5/28/2004 11:25:24 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) of 81568

Wofowitz weighs in on the (maybe?) new Iraqi PM: From the Newshour... "...MARGARET WARNER: Now, shifting to this interim government, there was great confusion today out of Baghdad about the appointment of its new prime minister. Where does that stand? Can you clear up the confusion? Is this Allawi? PAUL WOLFOWITZ: Not totally, and I mean, I think to some extent this is democracy. People go and make decisions. It appears the governing council by processes that I don't understand came to this unanimous consensus on one of their members being the new prime minister. It's an interesting notion and may well turn out to be that that's where Ambassador Brahimi goes. But let me be clear, the process that we endorsed and are supporting is to have this distinguished U.N. ambassador who put together the interim government in Afghanistan consult with literally hundreds of Iraqis to try to get a feeling for who is interim leader, leadership that will achieve enough consensus to get Iraq through the next six months. Remember, we're not talking about a permanent government, we're talking about a six-month interim government. And Ambassador Brahimi hasn't come to that final announcement yet. MARGARET WARNER: So when the U.N. spokesman, Fred Eckhart, in New York says the decision is actually up to the governing council and Coalition Provisional Authority headed by Paul Bremer, he's just wrong, as far as you're concerned it's up to Brahimi. PAUL WOLFOWITZ: As far as we're concerned, we're waiting for Ambassador Brahimi to make his recommendations..."

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