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US assures Iraqi Oppn of their resolve to remove Saddam
Washington, Aug 11: The United States has said that there would be no let up in its resolve to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime and assured Iraqi opposition that Washington was committed to back a Democratic Government in Baghdad.
Washington, Aug 11: The United States has said that there would be no let up in its resolve to bring down the Saddam Hussein regime and assured Iraqi opposition that Washington was committed to back a Democratic Government in Baghdad.
The US President Dick Cheney, speaking by video hookup from his vacation home in Wyoming yesterday, said that the administration was committed to ousting Hussein and supporting a democratic and multiethnic government that would abandon Hussein's totalitarian ways. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday said that change of regime in Baghdad was necessary and the US would support the emergence of a Democratic Government similar to the one installed in Afghanistan. Both Cheney and Rumsfeld have assured the Iraqi opposition of their support and them to unite against Saddam Hussein.
Meanwhile, Peter W Galbraith, a former ambassador and currently a professor at the national war college said to secure Kurdish cooperation against Saddam Hussein, they must be assured of continued autonomy.
In an article in the 'Washington Post' today, after his return from Kurdish areas in Iraq, Galbraith said that Kurds have a disciplined force of 100,000 between the two factions which now administer Kurdistan. In a post-Hussein Iraq "the Kurds will insist on maintaining the independence they now enjoy," he added.
Bureau Report
The US President Dick Cheney, speaking by video hookup from his vacation home in Wyoming yesterday, said that the administration was committed to ousting Hussein and supporting a democratic and multiethnic government that would abandon Hussein's totalitarian ways. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday said that change of regime in Baghdad was necessary and the US would support the emergence of a Democratic Government similar to the one installed in Afghanistan. Both Cheney and Rumsfeld have assured the Iraqi opposition of their support and them to unite against Saddam Hussein.
Meanwhile, Peter W Galbraith, a former ambassador and currently a professor at the national war college said to secure Kurdish cooperation against Saddam Hussein, they must be assured of continued autonomy.
In an article in the 'Washington Post' today, after his return from Kurdish areas in Iraq, Galbraith said that Kurds have a disciplined force of 100,000 between the two factions which now administer Kurdistan. In a post-Hussein Iraq "the Kurds will insist on maintaining the independence they now enjoy," he added.
Bureau Report