The row threatens to delay the appointment of a new interim government. A ceremony scheduled for today appeared last night to have been postponed.
On Friday the governing council voted unanimously to endorse Ayad Allawi, a British-educated neurosurgeon with close links to the CIA, as the new prime minister - a move that seems to have caught Mr Brahimi by surprise.
At a stormy governing council meeting yesterday, Mr Bremer bluntly warned members not to hold another vote on who should be the new president. If they did he would ignore it.
"The behaviour of Mr Bremer and Mr Brahimi has been shameful," Dr Mahmoud Othman, a leading council member told the Guardian. "It's like being in a dictatorship again. Adnan follows the Americans around like a puppy. If the Americans told Adnan that yoghurt was black, he would go along with it."
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The bickering has done little to help the new government's credibility. "The people were never involved in the political process for 35 years. So what's new," Kareem Mahmoud, a Baghdad street vendor said.
What did anyone expect? Christ, Bush appealed to the Supreme Court to thwart democracy in the United States. Did anyone really believe he had any interest in democracy in Iraq?
Aside from our disgraceful and foolish national press, I mean.
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