Bush is trying to get the United Nations into Iraq now

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040408/pl_afp/us_iraq_un_force&cid=1521&ncid=1473

US seeks contributors for new multinational force to protect UN in Iraq

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States has asked more than a dozen countries to contribute to a multinational force to protect a UN operation in Iraq (news - web sites), should the world body decide to return there, US officials said.

The force, expected to number at least 1,500 soldiers, would provide security for UN personnel who would be assisting in preparations for elections after the US-led occupation ends on June 30, the officials said.


The officials said the idea for the force had "evolved" in discussions with potential contributors to Iraqi reconstruction and stabilization efforts as a means of overcoming the reluctance of some nations to become involved.


"It's an idea that has evolved as the situation has evolved," a senior State Department official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "It's something that people are certainly interested in.

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1. 1,500 Soldiers - What Good Would That Do?

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[Jacobin]

4. The UN won't do it. They know the "troops" will just be targets

This blunder by President Cheney and his flying monkey advisors has been fucked sideways.

This blunder of blunders will go down in the annals of history as the point at which the American Empire began to crumble

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2. Please Delete

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[Zinfandel]

3. Republicans have pissed on and spit all over the UN for decades and now...

that Bush and the Republicans have fucked up Iraq so badly with their lies, they are begging the UN to come in and take the heat off their lying (about WMD) asses. And then they'll point the finger at the UN, if they do step in and help out as them (the UN) being problem in Iraq.
THE LYING HYPOCRITICAL, TWO-FACED SICK REPUBLICANS BASTARD.

Bush and the Republicans will never accept any of the blame, ever.
They will always shift the blame onto someone else, and it's always someone else's fault, never theirs.

WHAT ASSHOLES!

[shockingelk]

5. Bush mentioned UN involvement in handover

In Bush's answer to the reporter who called him "sir" the other day about the June 30th turnover:

"The United Nations representative is there now to work on the -- on a -- on to whom we transfer sovereignty. I mean, in other words, it's one thing to decide to transfer. We're now in the process of deciding what the entity will look like to whom we will transfer sovereignty." http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040405-4.html

[F.Gordon]

6. I believe a DUer offered a good theory on this......

And others feel the same way....

The U.S. mission to the UN has also begun exploring the possibility of UN assistance in rebuilding and administering Iraq. Until now, President Bush has shunned international administration there because it might require surrendering U.S. control, and that attitude in the White House may prevent meaningful international help now. Still, assistance from the UN would allow the United States to pull out of Iraq with its prestige intact, even while conditions remained chaotic, something neither Johnson nor Nixon managed to do under similar circumstances in Vietnam. In today's Iraq, the UN would inherit the postwar mess while the United States took credit for toppling Hussein.

http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2003/120903a.html