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2003-09-04 Iraq

U.S. Offers to Share Iraq Role With U.N.

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Posted by Steve White 2003-09-04 1:02:19 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 $60-70 Bill??

No prob, dump viagra care for boomers. Ask not what your country can do for you.....

More than enough left over to pay down the deficit and upgrade the electrical grid.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-4 1:21:37 AM|| 2003-9-4 1:21:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this Bush 2's equivalent to Bush 1's breaking his 'no new taxes' promise?

Just last week Powell admitted the bankruptcy of his 'Roadmap to Peace' by calling on Arafat to stop the violence, when Arafat is behind the violence. Now Powell is giving up Iraq after the US liberated it and handing a massive victory to Bush's enemies, foreign and domestic.

This is nuts. Why are they doing it?

Posted by Jabba the Nutt 2003-9-4 8:52:21 AM|| 2003-9-4 8:52:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Why ? Why now ? Because France understands after four months that the U.S. will never cede authority to the U.N. The dream that Iraq will despise the U.S. forever and force them out is fading.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-4 11:08:46 AM|| 2003-9-4 11:08:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I haven't figured out this move either. Politics to appease the U.S. voters who wanted U.N. involvement? Soften the budget blow? Free troops to rest up for the next post-election offensive? Put another nail in the U.N. coffin? All of the above?

Posted by Tom 2003-9-4 11:13:25 AM|| 2003-9-4 11:13:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 No worries, France and Germany have already rejected it.

Posted by Dishman 2003-9-4 11:19:35 AM|| 2003-9-4 11:19:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Facing the threat and reality of islamist terror should be a shared responsibility as no one country is exempt. Ask Rhiyad. Ask the UN. We all have to step up to the table. And the flypaper has been a pretty focusing strategy. "They're all there boys! Go get em!"

And the sooner we get the US out of Iraq, the sooner we can suceesfully deal with Iran, Syria, Korea....

Posted by john 2003-9-4 11:30:28 AM|| 2003-9-4 11:30:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "I haven't figured out this move either"

according to this AM's wapo it went like this. Powell and the Brits have wanted this for a while, but as long as Rummy had the generals behind him, they couldnt move. After the UN bombing, State floated the idea in public - you may recall something from Armitage - then the generals (definitely Peter Pace Vice chair of JCS) and possibly Abuzaid (CINC Centcom) contacted Powell directly. Myers (chair JCS - top uniformed guy in the US military) signed on, and Powell went to the White House, citing backing from all the generals. Condi - noting failure to get more troops (even Turks) without a UN res, an imminent problem with the rotation schedule, mounting political presssure, and the situation on the ground, said yes.

An unnamed senior defense source said Feith (Undersec Def for Policy and a leading neocon) was opposed, but Feith told WaPo he'd supported the idea for weeks.

Situation Normal, all f**ked up.

So the main question now is how far the horsetrading goes.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-9-4 1:22:00 PM|| 2003-9-4 1:22:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Saw Richard Holbrooke on Charlie Rose last night. Said all we are asking for is UN approval to set up an East Timor, Bosnia, even Korea-like arrangement where C and C is in the hands of one power (US) and UN helps out, but stays out of the way. We would still be calling the shots (no pun intended). What he said jibes with what I read here, Steve.

Posted by Michael 2003-9-4 5:09:20 PM|| 2003-9-4 5:09:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Michael, thanks for that. I didn't see the interview but wish I had.

Posted by Steve White 2003-9-4 8:24:12 PM|| 2003-9-4 8:24:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "Hi Kofi--this here is Colin." "Ya there?" "I just got off the phone with ~~Mammy~~ Condi and she sez we wuz just kiddin' about not wantin yo' help!" "I know we was ignunt and war mongerin'--but ya see we gots us an election comin' up ovah heah and would 'sho 'preciate yo help!"

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-9-5 12:07:31 AM|| 2003-9-5 12:07:31 AM|| Front Page Top

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