{"id":748,"date":"2004-03-10T07:19:26","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T12:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/june_30_transfer\/"},"modified":"2004-03-10T07:19:26","modified_gmt":"2004-03-10T12:19:26","slug":"june_30_transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/june_30_transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"June 30 Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A task force sponsored by the Council of Foreign Relations has issued a report<\/a> examining the situation in Iraq one year after the United States invaded. The report warns against allowing election-year politics to jeopardize the process of rebuilding Iraq:<\/p>\n

While noting “significant progress” in the post-conflict reconstruction and political transition effort, the Task Force reports that the planned transfer of sovereignty on June 30, combined with U.S. troop reductions from Iraqi cities and uncertainty about long-term U.S. funding, has created doubts about U.S. staying power. To avoid destabilizing the effort and demoralizing Iraqis, the Task Force urges the Bush administration, the Democratic nominee, and Congressional leaders to:
\n* Declare that coalition forces will continue to provide essential security in Iraq until the Iraqi security forces can do so on their own;
\n* Emphasize that the transfer of sovereignty does not signal a diminished U.S. commitment to supporting stability, reconstruction and a peaceful political transition;
\n* Affirm that the United States is prepared to sustain a multi-billion dollar commitment to Iraq for at least the next several years; and
\n* Ensure broad involvement of Iraqis, and promote a leading role for the United Nations in the political transition process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other than providing the Bush campaign with a “milestone,” does this June 30 so-called power transfer really have any meaning? It’s not like Iraq will an autonomous government. We’ll still have to provide the security, pay the bills, and likely call the shots behind the scenes. . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A task force sponsored by the Council of Foreign Relations has issued a report examining the situation in Iraq one year after the United States invaded. The report warns against allowing election-year politics to jeopardize the process of rebuilding Iraq: While noting “significant progress” in the post-conflict reconstruction and political transition effort, the Task Force […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}