At first, the Defense Department, which runs the occupation, resisted handing over financial control of Iraq's rebuilding.
The draft law, he added, also had the approval of the Pentagon and the State Department, as well as the governments of Britain and Australia, which are taking part in running the occupation.
Here's a quick, very recent oral history from those who have been protesting, hogging the picket lines and running the occupations at Universities around the country.
Most members of the Union favor a substantial role for the United Nations, perhaps even helping to run the Iraq occupation when -- as most people assume -- the American and British-led war is successful.
American reconstruction aid, like the proposed $20 billion that President Bush is struggling to get through Congress, would go to the previously set up entity, the Development Fund for Iraq, which is run by the occupation administrators and the Iraqis.
Our occupations run the gamut of possibilities and if it was permitted, we would even run for the highest political office in the land.
Hamas refused to recognize the move, and since then Haniyeh has continued to govern Gaza while Abbas and Fayyad run the West Bank, under Israeli occupation.
To all the world, he looked like the Iraqi exile who had returned home victorious, a favorite of the Pentagon who might run the country once the American occupation ended.
The Ottomans, during their 3 centuries of occupation, let the local Sunnis run the country.
