Woo or no Woo, I don't think Bush has a prayer of getting UN cooperation.

[LittleApple81]

This article talks about Bush's efforts to get other nations, besides "the coalition of the billing" to get involved in Iraq.

The killing of the policemen in Fallujah does not help!
Perhaps he will have to settle for hiring Iraqis. And if they keep on killing them, I don't think they will get many volunteers there either.

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http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1011012003

Bush's new bid to woo UN

Gethin Chamberlain diplomatic correspondent
GEORGE Bush yesterday issued an urgent appeal to world leaders to help stabilise the deteriorating situation in Iraq, after a day of gun battles left at least nine Iraqi policemen and two American soldiers dead. The United States president will use a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September to issue a fresh plea for assistance, in an admission that the US is struggling to calm an increasingly incendiary situation.

Yesterday, he told troops of the 3rd Infantry Division, newly-arrived back from Iraq, that the US needed help from its allies and warned free nations that they could not be neutral in the "fight between civilisation and chaos". "It’s time for others to join us," he said. "Terrorists in Iraq have attacked representatives of the civilised world and opposing them and defeating them must be the cause of the civilised world."

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Meanwhile, the UN’s nuclear watchdog yesterday set Iran a 31 October deadline to prove it had no secret atomic weapons programme, prompting Tehran to threaten a "deep review" of its co-operation with the agency.

When the 35-nation board of the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution setting the deadline, Iran’s delegation stormed out of the closed-door meeting, and accused Washington of having new invasion plans after Iraq.

[StandWatie]

1. hell no he won't

The rest of the world likes seeing this band of idiots pinned down in Iraq, it keeps them from making more messes around the globe.

[Eloriel]

2. That is precisely my fear

That if the U.S. gets enough troops to relive a bunch of ours in Iraq, Bush'll just think it's safe to go tromping off elsewhere.

I hate our poor troops being stuck there (I hated them being sent there in the first place), but as long as they're there, they're not waging war somewhere else.

Eloriel

[Booberdawg]

4. Exactly!

That's what I suspect too. Our troops will be freed up from Iraq only to start another war with Syria or Iran. I think they've got Syria in their sights already.

[Tikki]

3. I agree...and aren't UN members aware of * sinking...

...numbers in the 'polls'. Might they just pay him weak 'lip service' knowing that in little over a year...there will be some sanity returned to OUR WH and an Administration that can work in Cooperation with the rest of the World????

[Brucey]

5. I disagree.

I think the Bushies are in so much trouble now that they will broker a deal that will be accepted by the UN. That will include giving up some control over Iraq.