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My heart is steadfast, O God;I will sing and make music with all my soul.Awake, harp and lyre!I will awaken the dawn.I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations;I will sing of You among the peoples.

The war we're losing Posted: June 30, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. June 28, the day in 2004 that the Americans transferred sovereignty to Iraqis and proconsul Paul Bremer hastily departed Baghdad, is a day freighted with historic significance. On June 28, 1914, 90 years before, Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip fired the shots that killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and led, five weeks later, to World War I. On June 28, 1919, German representatives, their country under an Allied starvation blockade, prostrate before a threat by Marshal Foch to march on Berlin, signed the Versailles...

TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) -- An Iraqi analyst revealed on Saturday that a Jew, originally Iraqi, who acts as an advisor to the U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer, has been missioned to draft the Iraqi constitution. Valid al-Zobeidi told the BBC Arabic service that the draft constitution will be implemented in July. Bremer has earlier threatened to veto any Iraqi constitution which would consider Islam as the main backbone of the constitution. The Iraqi analyst has refused to disclose the name of the Jew.

Good Evening. Iraq faces a choice. You could take the path which leads to a new Iraq, a peaceful, democratic Iraq, an Iraq of political freedom and economic opportunity, an Iraq where the majority is not Sunni, Shia, Arab, Kurd or Turcoman, but Iraqi. This is the path to a bright and hopeful future. Or you could take the path which leads to the dark Iraq of the past where violence and fear rule, where power comes from a gun, and where only the powerful and ruthless are secure. Thousands of conversations with you over the past year have made...

SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ, France (Reuters) - A group of French Basques Thursday stormed the grounds of the holiday home of Paul Bremer, the U.S. chief administrator in Iraq (news - web sites), to protest against the American-led invasion of the country.   Around 15 members of the left-wing Basque nationalist movement Abertzaleen Batasuna (AB) clambered over the gates and let off fireworks and firecrackers during a 20-minute raid on Bremer's residence in this southwestern town. "We wanted to symbolize the war the United States imposed on the Iraqi people," said a spokesman for the group who did not want to be identified....

After enduring decades under a corrupt state-run economy, the Iraqi people are poised for an economic renaissance through reconstruction projects funded by an $18.4 billion American grant, senior U.S. and Iraqi officials announced today in Baghdad. "The waiting is all but over. The partnership between the American and Iraqi people for the reconstruction of Iraq is on the move," Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, Coalition Provisional Authority administrator, told reporters during a news briefing. This "Partnership for Prosperity," Bremer noted, will benefit all Iraqis and "is based on the commitment of the American people to provide substantial support" to transform...

Coalition Provisional Authority administrator L. Paul Bremer III signed a letter approving the Iraqi interim constitution late March 8, CPA chief spokesman Dan Senor said today in Baghdad. Senor told reporters that Bremer, the top American official in Iraq, thanked Iraqi Governing Council President Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum and the council's other 24 members for their efforts. Senor then read from a letter Bremer had forwarded to Bahr al-Ulloum: "Dear Mr. President: The Coalition Provisional Authority congratulates you and the Governing Council on the signing today of the transitional administrative law for the state of Iraq. The law joins the best...

Though the signing of an interim Iraqi constitution was not originally scheduled for today — International Women's Day -- the civilian administrator in Iraq called the signing a significant way to honor "the resilience, achievements and the promise of the women of Iraq" and a reminder of "how much further we need to go in pursuit of women's rights." Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III said the new Transitional Administrative Law, signed in Baghdad today following two delays, contains unprecedented protections for women, including strong guarantees of women's rights that can't be abolished. "The law provides that the electoral system should...

The Iraqi Governing Council celebrated today what council president Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum called "a historic moment, decisive in the history of Iraq" by signing an interim constitution in Baghdad. The new "Transitional Administrative Law" will serve as Iraq's constitution between June 30, when the Coalition Provisional Authority returns sovereignty to the Iraqi people, and completion of a permanent constitution by a directly elected parliament. During a ceremony today in Baghdad, 25 council members signed the 25-page interim constitution that senior council member Adnan Pachachi called "a beacon of light and hope for future generations." The document includes a 13-article bill...

AGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 14 — The wild gray beard was gone, and he sat on a metal army cot, just awake from a nap, in socks and black slippers. He was not handcuffed. He did not recognize all his visitors, but they recognized him. That was the purpose of the visit: to help confirm that he was, in fact, Saddam Hussein. What came next in the Sunday afternoon meeting, according to people in the room, was an extraordinary 30 minutes, in which four new leaders of Iraq pointedly questioned the nation's deposed and now captured leader about his tyrannical rule....

New leadership in Iraq Posted: November 18, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com President Bush is reportedly not pleased with the job Paul Bremer is doing in Iraq. That's progress. It's time to rethink Bremer. It's time to rethink the qualifications needed for the person leading the rebuilding of Iraq. It's time to rethink what has worked and not worked in the past in such situations. When the U.S. conquered Japan in 1945, we didn't send a career bureaucrat to turn the country around, to change the culture, to rebuild the economy and the nation's infrastructure as rapidly as possible. We sent...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq's U.S. governor, Paul Bremer, has arrived in Washington and is expected to meet soon with top officials at the White House for what is likely to be a decision-making session, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. "When decisions need to be made, Bremer comes. Some decisions need to be made," the official told Reuters. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there was no expectation Bremer would be leaving his post. There was no immediate comment from the White House. Bremer's return for what officials called "consultations" comes amid growing frustration in Washington with...

My, my, my, the great Iraqi Gold Rush is on, and who should be there at the front of the line, right along with Halliburton and Bechtel, but our old friends at WorldCom -- perpetrator of the largest accounting fraud in American history. WorldCom, shortly to become MCI, has been given a contract worth $45 million in the short term to build a wireless phone network in Iraq. I learned via The Associated Press that Washington Technology, a trade newspaper that follows computing-related sales to the U.S. government, "found WorldCom jumped to eighth among all federal technology contractors in 2002,...

IRAQ "America ist biased " Ayatolla Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim is the leader of the largest Schiite Opposition group in Iraq. In a conversation with the SPIEGEL he talks about the mistakes of the US-Occupation forces and describes why the Iraqis want to be rid of them as soon as possible. AP Schiite Leader Ayatolla Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim SPIEGEL:  Sahid Al-Hakim, the new American civilian administration has decided to have almost all Iraqi militias give up their weapons by June 15th. Will your troops, the c.10,000 man strong Badr-Brigade, follow this order?Hakim:  First of all, there are two different issues, whether or not it concerns heavy or light weapons. Our Badr-Corps was...

Clinton Assigns BlameAnd, no, it’s not his fault.By Kevin M. Cherry, a writer living in Alexandria, Va..November 8, 2001 11:30 a.m.   n a speech at Georgetown University, President Bill Clinton blamed, in part, the United States for the terrorist attacks of September 11. Speaking to a group of about 1,000 students, the former president said that our nation is "paying a price" for slavery and for its treatment of the "significant number of native Americans" who "were dispossessed and killed."Osama bin Laden certainly has given no indication that he was concerned about the American sin of slavery —...

Middle East Once upon a time, in an administration both far away and far right, a newly-hired bureaucrat, known as Jerry to his friends, sat at an office desk at the US State Department; room 7224 to be exact. Now that bureaucrat is about to become America's proconsul, or top civil administrator and special envoy in diplomatic jargon, in Iraq. Congratulations L Paul Bremer III, you've come a long way, baby. Bremer, 61, received his BA from Yale, a CEP at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of the University of Paris, and a MBA from Harvard, and entered the Foreign Service...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration has chosen L. Paul Bremer, a former head of the State Department's counterterrorism office, to become civilian administrator in Iraq and oversee the country's transition to democratic rule. Bremer's selection, disclosed Wednesday by a senior U.S. official, will put him in charge of a transition team that includes retired Army Lt. Gen. Jay Garner and Zalmay Khalilzad, the special White House envoy in the Persian Gulf region. Bremer left the State Department, where he was an assistant to former secretaries William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger, to join Kissinger Associates, a consulting firm...