WASHINGTON, March 15 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Unable to gain world support for its planned attack and invasion of Iraq, the U.S. has gone ahead with its schemes, approving plans to run post-war Iraq, according to press reports Saturday, March 15.

U.S. President George W. Bush has approved a plan to create an "Iraqi Interim Authority," made up of Iraqis from all of the country's major tribal, ethnic and religious groups, immediately after Saddam Hussein is deposed from power, senior administration officials told The New York Times Friday, March 14.

Officials said the interim authority would receive what they called "a rolling transfer of authority" over daily Iraqi life. However, one of the officials said the "power ministries," meaning the military, intelligence apparatus and other institutions that support the current regime’s rule, would be taken over by the American military, dismantled and then reformed and rebuilt.

The plans were described in rough form Friday by Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, in an interview with Al Jazeera television that was clearly intended to amplify the White House argument that it will “liberate Iraq, not occupy it”.

Rice said the group would be "kind of like the Afghan Interim Authority, that would be a grouping of Iraqis who could exercise administrative and other authority on behalf of the Iraqi people and quickly as possible."

The administration has gone to considerable lengths to compare a new government in Iraq to the one that has taken over in Afghanistan, and to discourage comparisons to the occupation of Japan beginning in 1945, in which Gen. Douglas MacArthur served as the country's supreme commander for years.

Still, the description given by administration officials sounded much like an accelerated version of the Japanese model, with Gen. Tommy R. Franks acting as supreme commander but rapidly yielding responsibility to Iraqis, a United Nations representative and nongovernmental groups that would help provide food and rebuild schools, according to the paper.

The Treasury Department, somewhat belatedly in the eyes of many officials, is beginning to establish plans for a new currency for Iraq and thinking about how to rebuild a central bank and control the money supply.

Officials would not say whether the dollar would temporarily become the country's de facto currency, saying there is some thought to using the "Swiss print" dinar, a currency used in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq that Hussein does not control, rather than the dinar, used in the rest of the country.

"Whatever it is, it will not be a currency that has Saddam Hussein's picture on it," a senior official said. "We want to make the point that this is not going to be “Saddamism” without Saddam. You have to visibly kill some institutions."

The announcement of the interim authority, which would eventually oversee local and then national elections, is part of a broader American effort to convince Iraqis that they should aid in the effort to overthrow Hussein.

Administration officials concede that Bush has signed off on broad concepts, not operational principles, for a new government.

"It all depends," an official said, "on how we are received when we get there."

In the same direction, The New York Times Saturday, March 15, published an article shedding light on what Iraq will be like once invaded and ruled by “Bush”.

If war comes — the phrase used so often in recent months — the fighting may be quick or prolonged, but few experts doubt that the huge American force now concentrating in the Middle East will prevail in the end.

When the Iraqi regime finally changes in Baghdad, and Saddam Hussein is dead, in custody or in exile, 70 years of Iraqi independence will end, political authority will pass into the hands of George W. Bush and Western rule will be planted on Arab soil for the first time since the French and British left the region in the middle of the last century.