A Government by the People
Jay Garner expects a new Iraqi government to start to be formed the end of next week. This is a positive step. I do think that we ought to be taking a stake in the ground with some kind of timetable for services to be restored and elections to take place. We know that the Iraqis want us out and want to be governing themselves. Giving them some kind of timetable (with reasonable timeframes) should go some way towards ameliorating the fear that we're going to (a) run things ourselves or (b) install a puppet government.