Interview With Todd Mundt On Michigan

Juan Cole 11/17/2003

Interview with Todd Mundt on Michigan Public Radio

” 11/13/03

Iraq Update

Todd Mundt

Paul Bremer is returning to Iraq with a new set of marching orders from the Bush administration.

The Washington Post reports this morning that the administration plans to support the creation

of a reconstituted governing body in Iraq. It’s expected to assume a large degree of control

over the country by next summer. Juan Cole is a history professor at the University of Michigan

and an expert on the Arab world. Todd Mundt asked him what went wrong with the current Iraqi

Governing Council.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page