{"id":999,"date":"2004-06-01T15:01:51","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-01T15:01:51","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T22:01:51","slug":"meet-the-new-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/01\/meet-the-new-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Same as the Old Puppets…….<\/h3>\n

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Any hopes that new faces would appear as the “interim government” died yesterday as the Puppet Council <\/a>basically reshuffled itself and was reincarnated as the “interim government.” Apparently, the first order of business for the New Iraqi Prime Minister\u00ae involves assuring the people of Iraq that he’s still an American tool<\/a> who intends to grant the American military’s fondest wish, a SOFA agreement <\/a>and basing rights in Iraq.<\/p>\n

The only comment so far from Iraqis outside the “Green Zone” hothouse:<\/a><\/p>\n

Al-Yawer, a Sunni Muslim who has sharply criticised U.S. policy in Iraq, will hold the largely symbolic post of president, while the more powerful position of prime minister goes to Allawi, a U.S.-backed Shiite Muslim with military and CIA connections.<\/p>\n

Allawi, whose appointment was announced Friday, was chosen because he was considered the best candidate to cope with the deteriorating security situation.<\/p>\n

As word of the appointment was announced, a car bomb blew up outside the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which is located just outside the green zone U.S. coalition headquarters in central Baghdad.<\/p>\n

The Arab language television stations Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya quoted police as saying about 10 people were killed, but the information could not immediately be confirmed. Another blast, followed by gunfire, sent a mushroom cloud billowing into the air. Coalition aircraft could be heard flying over Baghdad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE: High farce<\/a><\/p>\n
\nUPDATE: Rock-solid proof that I’m right.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Same as the Old Puppets……. Any hopes that new faces would appear as the “interim government” died yesterday as the Puppet Council basically reshuffled itself and was reincarnated as the “interim government.” Apparently, the first order of business for the New Iraqi Prime Minister\u00ae involves assuring the people of Iraq that he’s still an American […]<\/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-999","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\/999","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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}