BABY STEPS...BUT STEPS

Iraq council names first president to serve one-month rotation (Steven R. Hurst, 7/30/2003, Associated Press)

After weeks of struggling to choose a leader, Iraq's American-picked interim government Wednesday named its first president -- a Shiite Muslim from a political party banned by Saddam Hussein. He will be the first of nine men serving one-month rotations leading postwar Iraq. [...]

Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a Shiite Muslim and chief spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party, will serve as council president for August. The party once was based in neighboring Iran.

So, how many of the "40 lies" does that dispel? Posted by Orrin Judd at July 30, 2003 5:23 PM