Another interesting moment from last night’s press conference.
The standard rightist talking point after the U.N. failed to endorse Bush’s invasion of Iraq was that the organization had become “irrelevant.” Imagine the surprise last night when this came out:
Q. Mr. President, who will you be handing the Iraqi government over to on June 30?
A. We’ll find that out soon. That’s what Mr. Brahimi is doing. He’s figuring out the nature of the entity we’ll be handing sovereignty over.
Let me get this straight. After expending hundreds of American lives and over $100 billion on this effort in Iraq, we are now relying on someone from the irrelevant U.N. to come up with the plan to fix up the mess?
I just don’t understand it.
UPDATE: In a press conference today, Brahimi expressed confidence that an interim Iraqi government could be in place by the scheduled transfer of power on June 30.