HISTORIC DAY - IRAQ HANDOVER PHOTOS

Yahoo News ^ | June 28, 2004

[Reader of news]

Thank you, Mr. Bremer!

[Howlin]

And Bremer has already left Iraq!!!

Amazing.

[Reader of news]

And Zarqawi may have been captured!!!

Magnificent.

[Howlin]

I wonder where Negroponte is..........LOL.

[SkyPilot]

And Zarqawi may have been captured!!!

The American Brig Gen spokesman in Iraq says that is not true now.

[Reader of news]

He will be in the new U.S. embassy in Baghdad. The biggest embassy in the world.

[goldstategop]

I think our Ambassador has already presented his credentials to Iraq's President. We will still play a major role in Iraq for some years to come. Today was a milestone but the country has yet to have its first free elections. The violence makes holding them impossible for the forseeable future.

[goldstategop]

Yep. And it will be as tightly guarded by U.S troops as the old "Green Zone" civil administration headquarters was.

[Howlin]

I heard a report somewhere over the weekend that regular Iraqis are tired of all the violence and are starting to take action.

[ScaniaBoy]

Check this thread:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1161022/posts

[Howlin]

Oh, thanks for that!! Reading it now...

[ken5050]

Just been watching for an hour..can one surmise that Rather, Brokaw, Jennings were NOT invited to attend?

[Howlin]

Somebody said Jennings was there, but the rest of them sent stringers.........LOL.

[ken5050]

I'll wager the weren't told...for security reasons..

[dawn53]

I just woke up and heard this news.

What a great idea. A surprise EARLY handover.

Strategerie triumphs once again.

[chambley1]

Moore just vomited in bed and is now floating in his own vomit.

[Reader of news]

More photos.

The US administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer (L) shakes hands with Iraq's interim President Ghazi al-Yawar. The US-led coalition formally ended its 14-month occupation of Iraq, handing power to a caretaker government in a hastily convened ceremony in its Baghdad headquarters compound two days earlier than expected.(AFP/Pool/Ali Jasim)

U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer (R) Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi (C) and the country's most senior judge Midhat Mahmoud (L) smile while holding a legal document during the handover of sovereignty ceremony June 28, 2004 in Baghdad. The United States transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government on Monday, formally ending the controversial 14-month occupation two days earlier than expected. (Pool/Reuters)

U.S. administrator Paul Bremer (R) flanked by Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi (2nd R) hands a letter to Iraq)'s most senior judge Midhat Mahmoud sealing the transfer of powers during a ceremony in the capital Baghdad June 28, 2004. The United States transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government on Monday, formally ending the controversial 14-month occupation two days earlier than expected. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

The US civil administrator in Iraq  L. Paul Bremer, right, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, center, and the Iraqi Chief Justice Midhat al-Mahmoudi, left, read a legal document during the hand over of sovereignty ceremony in Baghdad Monday June 28, 2004. Iraq received its sovereignty from the US-led coalition after 14-months, in an official ceremony that saw Bremer hand over legal documents to the Iraqi delegates. (AP Photo/Saeed KHAN/Pool)

U.S. administrator Paul Bremer (C) flanked by Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi (3rd L) and Bremer's deputy David Richmond (2nd R) and Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawar (R), hands a letter to Iraq's most senior judge Midhat Mahmoud (2nd L) sealing the transfer of powers during a ceremony in the capital Baghdad June 28, 2004. The United States transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government on Monday, formally ending the controversial 14-month occupation two days earlier than expected. REUTERS/Ali Jasim

 

 

[DainBramage]

Notice the captions descriptions "finally ending the occupation"....

"ending the controversial 14 month occupation"....."

handing over powers after their hegemonial occupation of the victim state Iraq to its puppet leaders"....

SUCCUMBING TO THE OVERWHELMING AND VICTORIOUS PRESSURES OF THE HOLY JIHAD BY SURRENDERING ALL PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS TO THE MUSLIM VICTORS!!!"

[Loyal Buckeye]

Bremer has received a fair amount of criticism from both sides of the aisle. Has he not performed very well in a very difficult situation?

[Reader of news]

IMHO Paul Bremer has done a great job. He deserves an office in the Bush Administration next term. Maybe Secretary of State if Colin Powell doesn't stay.