Bush Works Toward U.N. Iraq Compromise

[newyawker99]

President Bush, working to find common ground with allies on a new U.N. Iraq resolution, sought to dispel controversy about recent administration statements on Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Bush indicated the United States is not yet ready to present a revised resolution to other governments on the U.N. Security Council but is trying to accommodate some allies' demands for bigger roles in Iraq's reconstruction for themselves and the United Nations. "We're still talking about it," he said.

Later Wednesday, Bush flew to Camp David, Md., a day early because of the approach of Hurricane Isabel. He was hosting Jordan's King Abdullah II at the Maryland mountain retreat for talks that had been scheduled for Thursday night and Friday morning. That period is exactly when the brunt of the storm was expected to reach the Washington area.

As Bush aides scrambled to move up the meetings to Thursday morning, a political irritant arose that could cloud the session designed as a treat for Abdullah, a vital White House ally in the Middle East. The Bush administration urged Jordan to restore its freeze on the bank accounts of six leaders of Hamas, an extremist group that has killed scores of Israelis with suicide bombings.


UN/Iraq compromise?

[Brucey]

1. Two words that don't seem to go together:

Bush and compromise. On the other hand, the nations of this world will probably find some way to help the Chimp with his invasion. I find it so disconcerting that the US is so powerful that it's government can do damn well anything it wants and the rest of the world sits on its hands, pouts, or supports the bully. I hope France, Germany, Russia, and others will tell Chimp what corner to go sit in. Put the bastard on trial, for god's sake!

[lanlady]

3. 2 more words that don't fit

"Bush working"

[ixion]

2. allies... like Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan?

our 'new Europe' allies? Or the old allies who've been their for us from the time of the Revolutionary war who we just recently told to piss off? You know... 'Old Europe'.

:eyes:

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. Uzbekistan is the one that boils people, I believe (nt)

[robbedvoter]

5. Getting out of the harm's way again, huh? Wadda leader!

Later Wednesday, Bush flew to Camp David, Md., a day early because of the approach of Hurricane Isabel.
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That period is exactly when the brunt of the storm was expected to reach the Washington area.

[SOS]

6. Diplomats quoted in today's NYT

say that even a $1 billion pledge from all donors combined would be a "miracle" at next month's donors conference in Madrid. Bush isn't getting anything from anyone. His insults and bullying have left him high and dry. The world will most likely wait til Bush loses the 2004 election before getting serious about cooperation.