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2004-01-07 Iraq
Four-Star General May Run Iraq Transition
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Posted by Steve 2004-01-07 10:05:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The actual transcript makes this a lot more of an aside than a statment of intent.
General Myers and I have talked about it, but not in a fully structured way yet. He is going to coming back to me at some point and discussing that. And we've been discussing a whole host of things.

If you think of where we are, we have a situation where we have a coalition of forces in the country. We have a combatant commander in General Abizaid that has a large region with Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa, and a whole host of things he has to think through. And we have a Coalition Provisional Authority that is the government of the country, for all practical purposes, working with the ministries and the Governing Council in governing Iraq.

We're engaged in a very extensive interagency process at the present time and have been for a period of several months, at least, I think. I can remember talking to Secretary Powell about beginning the process of transferring over responsibility to an ambassador at that point where the Coalition Provisional Authority head, Jerry Bremer, departs, and the responsibilities go into an embassy of some kind, probably a beefed-up embassy, to be sure, and how we do that.

So we've been working on that. We've got dozens -- not dozens, but a couple handfuls of interagency committees that are thinking through the governance pieces and how that works and the essential service piece.

One of the pieces is the security situation. And it may very well be that we will want to make an adjustment and have some division of responsibility, as between CENTCOM, the relationship with the embassy, military -- office of military cooperation type task, as well as somebody that has the responsibility for the tactical, low- intensity warfighting that's taking place. It's not been decided.
Posted by Chuck Simmins  2004-1-7 11:20:30 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org]  2004-1-7 11:20:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, considering we're still in Germany, Japan and Korea after 50++ years, I really don't know how people would think we're leaving.
Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-1-7 1:12:23 PM||   2004-1-7 1:12:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 We're engaged in a very extensive interagency process at the present time and have been for a period of several months, at least, I think. I can remember talking to Secretary Powell about beginning the process of transferring over responsibility to an ambassador at that point where the Coalition Provisional Authority head, Jerry Bremer, departs, and the responsibilities go into an embassy of some kind, probably a beefed-up embassy, to be sure, and how we do that.


NOOOOO! NOT THE STATE DEPARTMENT!!!!
Posted by Ptah  2004-1-7 2:31:53 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2004-1-7 2:31:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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