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| Iraq | |
| Sistani demands UN role | |
| 2003-12-13 | |
Iraq's top Shiite cleric the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has demanded that the United Nations be brought in to determine whether early democratic elections in Iraq are feasible. The issue of when to hold elections has deeply divided the US-appointed Governing Council, which has failed to reach an agreement for more than two weeks. Ayatollah Sistani says that he will not retreat from his call for early democratic elections unless a neutral UN committee, appointed by secretary-general Kofi Annan, concludes that in the current circumstances it is technically and politically impossible.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #5 Grand Turban Another good name for a car. Maybe G.T.O. Grand Turban Overweening |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-13 2:28:50 PM |
| #4 LOL!!! You guys have really nailed this one! I am so ready for the US to finally admit the UN is, as was the League of Nations, a failure. It looks to me as though Dubya doesn't want this on his resume - he's tried playing nice with them on several frustrating fronts - and we keep getting burned and spurned. I think it's time to call it a day. Take those aspects that worked, toss those things that didn't, figure out what's still missing entirely, and float the new idea. It will take time for people to disengage from the old and see the new for what it is, but this process is an eventuality, not a pipe dream. Today's UN is a snake-pit and unworthy of either our monetary support or continued participation. It has devolved into a Thugacratic Demagogue Forum of no practical or principled value. *flush* |
| Posted by: .com 2003-12-13 1:24:24 PM |
| #3 Remember the UN is putting their Iraq mission in Cyprus. Provided they can find enough four-star hotel rooms, that is. |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-13 12:48:20 PM |
| #2 The U.N. would have to be willing to *enter* Iraq before this became even a remote possibility. Remember, they cut-and-run after their non-security allowed that truck bombing. And they're even threatening to leave Afghanistan now because of the "security situation" there. Hans "Magoo" Blix couldn't find an election, feasible or otherwise, if he was standing in a polling place with ballots strewn at his feet... |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-12-13 11:30:36 AM |
| #1 Iraq is not up for grabs (by Grand Turban Systani or any other factional "leader") and it's not the UN's call. If the Shi'a people don't get a clue and realize they are independent of this, or any other, turban - I see a partitioned Iraq coming. Maybe a Federation, but not a unified Iraq. |
| Posted by: .com 2003-12-13 5:24:19 AM |