What is Baghdad, what is Iraq going to look like?
POLLACK: Well, the honest answer is, Anderson, we just don’t know because, truth to tell, the Bush administration does not seem to have made up its mind. They’ve got some basic ideas about what they want post-war Iraq to look like, but there are still, as best we can tell, some very fierce fights raging on key issues. Key issues like what kind of a role is the external Iraqi opposition going to play in this new government, and what kind of a role is the United Nations going to play? As you know, Prime Minister Blair and a lot of the other European countries would like to see the U.N. at least have some kind of umbrella control over the reconstruction, even if the U.S. is doing the lion’s share of the work behind the scenes. There are people in the Bush administration who are pushing back hard with that. With regard to the Iraqi opposition, there are some in the Bush administration who think that the Iraqi opposition ought to be playing a leading role, maybe even running the entire tran
