{"id":1009,"date":"2004-06-03T03:29:25","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T10:29:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-03T03:29:25","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T10:29:25","slug":"all-new-iraqi-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/03\/all-new-iraqi-government\/","title":{"rendered":"All New!  Iraqi &#8220;Government!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomburka.com\/archives\/2004_06.php#000540\" target=\"_blank\">Iraqi Governing Council Takes Bold New Step Of Renaming Itself<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraq took a <a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/001501.html\" target=\"_blank\">mighty step forward<\/a> toward creating an independent sovereign government this week as the Iraqi Governing Council &#8212; a group of U.S. appointed Iraqi exiles seen as largely subservient to U.S. demands &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_05_30.php#003022\" target=\"_blank\">renamed itself <\/a>and became a group of dynamic, independent thinkers &#8212; made up of the very same people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a new man!&#8221; cried Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. &#8220;I could order American troops out of Iraq tomorrow if I wished!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if this was true, Allawi became suddenly sober and said,&#8221; I don&#8217;t know. Let me make a call.&#8221; After disappearing into his study and making an overseas call, Allawi emerged and answered, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/international\/AP-Iraq-What-Is-Sovereignty.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;No. I can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomburka.com\/archives\/2004_06.php#000540\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest&#8230;.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi Governing Council Takes Bold New Step Of Renaming Itself Iraq took a mighty step forward toward creating an independent sovereign government this week as the Iraqi Governing Council &#8212; a group of U.S. appointed Iraqi exiles seen as largely subservient to U.S. demands &#8212; renamed itself and became a group of dynamic, independent thinkers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}