The resolution was preceded by the creation of a “temporary government” that will substitute from June 30 on the “government council” and succeed the Provisory Coalition Authority.  But the temporary government is a counterfeit, an improvised arrangement, as all its members are appointed by the occupation authorities or chosen as a result of negotiations made with tribal chiefs and political leaderships interested in taking advantage of the new situation created in Iraq by the war of aggression and the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime. It is enough saying that the government leader, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, is a long-time ally of the United States and his connections with the CIA are well known.

The unanimity granted to resolution 1546 in the Security Council was certainly made possible due to the fact that the United States ceded in some issues, especially after France’s observations and contrapositions. Those were secondary concessions, more related to form than to depth, to process than to content, and overly characterized by ambiguity. For instance, it is affirmed in the text that the temporary government will be granted the power to demand international troops to leave, but it makes clear that the “multinational” force led by the United States will be dismantled only in January 2006, regardless of the will of new governors. As far as the process of transferring power is concerned, the resolution establishes a schedule according to which a national conference will be called in July to choose the Consulting Council and promote elections in January 2005 to elect a transitory National Assembly, which will provide a transition government that will draft the Constitution and lead the country to the election of a constitutional administration in December 31, 2005. Those are all superficial and secondary aspects that are bound to oblivion in the face of an objectively explosive situation and the colonialist appetite of the United States.

But the fact is that since its approval on June 8, resolution 1546 has turned into a campaign flyer to Bush as it is presented as the democratic achievement resulting from the military intervention, now with the approval of the “international community”, which finally “recognized” the United States’ reasons. A repugnant lie.

Resolution 1546 is an indecent document and the abject capitulation of the Security Council to an imposition impinged by imperialism. This is not the occasion to analyze intentions. We know that many cast their votes considering that it is the reflex of a possible commitment and also believing that it would help restore sovereignty in Iraq. But it is false. On the contrary, the Security Council legitimates occupation, which is prolonged to a dilated term, creating the illusion that now the UN will play some role in the Iraqi crisis and that there is a legitimate government to lead the country’s matters. And worse of all, the resolution consummates the fraud of turning the aggressive forces of occupation under the leadership of the United States into a “multilateral force”, granting it the right to fight resistance and gun down everyone who does not submit to the occupation regime.

The anti-imperialist forces cannot display an attitude different from denouncing the UN resolution 1546 as a decoy, as much as it must fight vigorously against the now legalized occupation. The wound opened by the United States’ aggression will keep bleeding; the chaotic situation that the imperialist war produced will hardly turn into normality; despair and pain caused to immense portions of the population by the occupation regime will not be transformed into hope, comfort and peace just like magic. The temporary administration will always be seen as a puppet government at the service of the invader. Patriots will always target it. The UN blessing will not change the slightest bit as long as the character of the United States occupation or the colonialist purposes of President Bush and his ultraconservatives are concerned. It also will not diminish the force of the resistance movement.

The plan that presented the Middle East “democratization” during the G-8 meeting, held soon after the approval of resolution 1546, and the divulged evidences that the United States already has a “contingence” plan with a view to perform a “government transition” in Syria are facts that reveal that the United States’ imperialism will follow the road of interventionism and aggression regarding other countries.