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David Warren: Bush "suckered the U.N. into signing on to the New Iraq through Brahimi"
David Warren is the smartest columnist in Canada, at least when Mark Steyn is in New Hampshire. EFL. Hat tip: Donald Sensing.No one else will say this, so I will. The Bush administration has handled the transfer of power in Iraq more cleverly than anyone expected, including me. The summoning of the U.N. envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, looked like very bad news (a poisonous old Arab League chauvinist who brokered the sell-out of Lebanon to Syria in 1982). In grim moments, I believed the Bush people were cynically using him to wash their hands of Iraq, and as it were, dump the quagmire back in the swamp of the U.N. Instead, they froze the ground beneath Brahimiâs feet, and skated rings around him, haggling behind his back with Iraqâs new political heavyweights to leave him endorsing a fait accompli. If it were not vulgar, I would say the Bushies suckered the U.N. into signing on to the New Iraq through Brahimi. A sovereign, free Iraq which will, incidentally, have a few things to say about the U.N.âs $100-billion "oil-for-food" scam, in due course. Every time I start to think W is blowing it, I come to learn that heâs four moves ahead of the opposition. Posted by: Mike 2004-06-03 |
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