Tired Of Keystone Cops, Iraqis Move Ahead With Their Own Choice Of Prime Minister

by Steve

After watching the Bush Administration name someone as the front-runner for Iraqi PM earlier this week without consulting with UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi or the Iraq Governing Council, and then see the Administration piss on itself by retracting that name, the Iraqis had enough of Bush’s incompetence today. They named their own PM without telling either Brahimi or the Coalition Provisional Authority.

After the fact, both the UN and the Bush Administration grudgingly accepted the name of Iyad Allawi, a Shiite who has the support of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. In other words, the Iraqis will take care of their own business, thank you very much. And after seeing the sorry misadministration of this process just this week, days after Bush said in his Monday address that Mr. Brahimi would be in the lead, only to undercut him a day later, it’s no doubt that the Iraqis felt they could do better than wait for the incompetents to stop acting like the Keystone Cops.

Who needs training wheels now, George?