Iraq situation critical, Graham says

[dArKeR]

Washington — Iraq's slide into "poverty and desperation and violence" must be halted and reversed or it will "become an incredible source of terror," Foreign Minister Bill Graham said yesterday after talks with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

"It is a threat to us all, it is a problem, and that's why Canada's committed $300-million to help the reconstruction of Iraq," Mr. Graham said during a visit to Washington.

He declined to blame the U.S.-led war, which Ottawa opposed, for what he called the current deterioration in Iraq. But he made it clear that Canada wants the Bush administration to relinquish at least some control over Iraq to the United Nations as Washington seeks international help and more troops to pacify and rebuild the country.

"No country is going to commit their soldiers or their treasury or their taxpayers' money unless they believe they have some role in making a decision about how that money will be spent or how the lives of our citizens will be risked," Mr. Graham said, adding he told Mr. Powell that "the broader the resolution, the better chance there is of having a broader coalition."

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030911.uiraq0911/BNStory/International/

But everything has been fine right from the beginning. And I can prove it by record of fact of recorded TV media interviews of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Gingrich, Cheney, Bush, Powell, and all the Media Whore reporters; Fineman, Russert... and our Religious leaders; Falwell, Robertson, Graham...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Bill Graham was just being polite

it IS our fault that things are a mess in Iraq. The neocon chickenhawks were only interested in obtaining the oil fields and enriching Haliburton, and could care less about security and infrastructure.

[xchrom]

2. very good assesment

but artifiacial help from the outside isn't going to guarantee the growth of an economy inside iraq.
we have inflicted deep wounds there for no reason.