UN demands to know what 'vital role' will be

[True_Blue]

The Security Council will meet in New York on Tuesday to hear a report from the United Nations' special envoy in Baghdad, Lakhdar Brahimi, who is expected to try to clarify the future nature of the UN's role in Iraq.
Both Washington and London are increasingly emphasising that the UN will take much of the responsibility for Iraq after a withdrawal of direct American control at the end of June. Brahimi has been putting together a new Iraqi Governing Council, which he believes will be more acceptable and more independent of political pressures than the existing one.

The current IGC has been heavily influenced by Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi financier who has until recently been Washington's favourite and has become increasingly unpopular in Iraq.

It is clear that both President George Bush and Tony Blair are keen to shift the burden to the UN, and both their governments have repeatedly invoked the name of Brahimi in the last two weeks, talking about the UN's 'vital role'. The intense anti-American feeling of Iraqis, particularly in Falluja, has made Bush and Paul Bremer, his proconsul in Baghdad, more anxious to invoke the UN as a power which will be more acceptable to the Iraqis - particularly with the prospect of continuing American casualties during an election campaign.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1202871,00.html

[FreakinDJ]

1. I wonder how their going to sell their BS this time to the UN

You would think the UN would be a little more savvy to the Bull Shit these 2 spew in front of the security council after the Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction thing.

Wouldn't mind seen France stand up with a copy of the plagiarized graduate thesis in one hand and Bush's Freedom Fries spew in the other, and just say "Oh no sir, not again"

[Mikimouse]

2. That would indeed be delicious (no pun intended)...

I see absolutely nothing to be gained by the international community in acquiescing to *'s bleatings. That POS started this mess, and nothing short of the UN's demanding his resignation should get them to assume responsibility. Get all of the troops out of Iraq, turn Chalabi over to the Jordanians, and then resign the office immediately, then we'll consider it, not before!