Yesterday, from
AP
Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for council member Ahmed Chalabi, said the complaints against the body were "nonsense and baseless" and that the "only solution is that the council be given full powers and sovereignty."
From NPR in February
SIEGEL: Can you reconcile the idea of democracy in Iraq with a period of American rule in Baghdad as long as two years?
Mr. QANBAR: This is a recipe for a disaster. It will be very difficult to succeed, and it...
SIEGEL: This is precisely the recipe that was described in Congress yesterday by senior State and Defense department officials.
Mr. QANBAR: I don't think this should happen. I think Iraq is a very difficult and complicated country, and it will be impossible for an American general to understand the ins and outs of the Iraqi-Iraqi politics. There should be no vacuum of Iraqi sovereignty on Iraq.