Excuse me, but if we control the south, then how do the "Iraqi authorities" do this, and if we don't control the south, then what's he bitching about?

...Later, his spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said that the delay in getting aid to southern Iraq was the fault of the Iraqi authorities. "We didn't expect the Iraqis to cease caring about their own people, to cease feeding their own people, to put up impediments to this humanitarian relief supplies," he said. ...

So the Iraqi's are supposed to allow convoys of "humanitarian supplies" from us during a conflict...like what, they stop shooting allow the delivery guy to drop off boxes of MRE's and meds and then start shooting again?

Am I reading this right or just dreaming that the prevARIcator actually made this stupid statement?