Art: US draws up secret plan to impose new regime on Iraq

[theapportioner]

The Guardian's a left-leaning newspaper generally speaking -- that's their slant. The "scoop" is the details of those 23 ministries -- the rest is background information obviously.

Discussion of post-war Iraq should have been central to the pre-war dicussions, and deserves more scrutiny than it has been getting, since the long-term future of a country and its relationships with the United States, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc. etc. etc. are at stake. Instead, we get pictures of big explosions and Saddam death rumors.

I personally am very deeply skeptical of the kind of job the United States (with or without the UN) will do there, and I want other people to recognize the crucial importance of this question.