US Agrees to Seek New UN Resolution on Iraq

[Barrett808]

BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States said for the first time on Thursday it expects a new U.N. resolution over Iraq before a sovereignty handover in response to Western allies' pressure for Washington to seek a U.N. mandate.

Countries such as France and Spain have said they did not want to be involved in Iraq after the July 1 handover without a new U.N. resolution underpinning the international community's presence there.

The United States had previously said only it was willing to consider the possibility of a new resolution. But on Thursday Secretary of State Colin Powell said the United States now expected the measure to be passed before it formally transfers power to an Iraqi government.

"I think there will be a new resolution as we move closer to the first of July," the top U.S. diplomat said in an interview with ZDF German Television.

Despite agreeing to return to the United Nations, the United States has not said how much authority it would allow the world body in any new resolution.

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[Jacobin]

1. BE IT RESOLVED that:

"Won't somebody Puhleeeeeze come rescue our silly asses from this quagmire?"

[tandot]

2. April Fool's joke? Wouldn't lose Bush support from those right-wing

nuts who said "screw the UN" and that the US doesn't need permission from anyone to attack any country the US wants to attack.

Wouldn't going back to the UN begging for help make him seem weak? Wasn't Bush saying that John Kerry is weak on defense because he would seek permission from the UN first?

On edit: Please add this to the huge list of Bush Flip-Flops

[mobuto]

3. I don't believe it

The Bush Administration has told us they wouldn't seek a UN mandate, and yet that's exactly what this article says they're doing. I don't understand.

Kerry's the flip-flopper, not Bush. This can't be right.