France, Germany Seek to Downgrade U.S. Role in Iraq

[kskiska]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France and Germany have offered the United States a deal that effectively recognizes an Iraqi transitional government but downgrades the U.S. political role in the occupied state, according to documents circulated on Wednesday.

In preparation for a meeting of key Security Council foreign minister in Geneva on Saturday, France and Germany jointly submitted amendments to a U.S.-drafted resolution aimed at getting more international troops and money to Iraq (news - web sites).

Russia presented separate proposals.

All three nations, which hold veto power on the council along with the United Nations (news - web sites) and Britain, advocate a stronger United Nations role to supervise the process of arranging for elections and eventual restoration of Iraqi sovereignty.

Their proposals would virtually shut out current U.S.-led occupation authorities from much of the political process, a concept Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) and British Foreign Minister Jack Straw were certain to reject.

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[grytpype]

1. ... certain to reject.

>Their proposals would virtually shut out current U.S.-led occupation authorities from much of the political process, a concept Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) and British Foreign Minister Jack Straw were certain to reject.

Oh, well. No UN resolution for us. Back to Plan B (chaos, death, quagmire, spiralling billions of cost). Can't blame Duhbya though, we don't want to give up control of our new 51st state to a bunch of chocolate-makers.

[Cheswick2.0]

2. this is the only way they should do it

and they should kick our construction firms, HALLIBURTON out.

[LibDemAlways]

3. As long as the Bush cartel is in power and there is any possibility of

stealing Iraq's oil and keeping the no-bid contracts in the BFEE family, the U.S. will never budge an inch. Only when the chimp is replaced will we begin working cooperatively with the UN.

[Beetwasher]

4. This has to be a non-negotiable part of any UN resolution

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