“The passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1511 [on October 16, 2003] placed a framework on the process of transferring power and sovereignty back into Iraqi hands. The Resolution specified the date by which the details of the matter were to be presented to the Security Council–and it was assumed the CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority] would manage it. The Resolution also seemed to put paid to the argument proposed by many in the Arab world and in Europe that the USA was planning a long-term occupation, although suspicions of CPA micromanagement remained.”
– Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Pages 204-205