Bomb pushes US action on Iraq

[0007]

Monday 19 January 2004, 4:52 Makka Time, 1:52 GMT

Washington is to seek UN help in handing over power to a provisional Iraqi government a day after a Baghdad truck bomb highlighted the dangers of occupation.

At least 20 people died on Sunday when a bomber detonated half a tonne of explosives outside the top-security civilian and military headquarters of the US-led administration.

The attack may intensify fears in the White House about the path the country may take after the expected 1 July handover of power to Iraqi authorities.

American occupation administrator Paul Bremer and members of the US-appointed Governing Council will meet UN head Kofi Annan in New York, seeking support for plans for a provisional government.

More.......

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/70B851F2-F62E-4ECE-80C0-84381CA7EB3F.htm

[raifield]

1. Oh, that's rich

Before the Administration decided to invade Iraqi, the UN kept telling them, "No, seriously, there aren't any WMDs here and it probably isn't a good idea".

So they did anyway.

Now the WMD team has been withdrawn and the Administration is begging for the UN to bail them out so they can get re-elected.

I'm cupping my ear so I can hear the "Screw you!" from New Jersey.

[JoeNormal]

2. aljazeera huh...Jeeez

I believe Bremer was scheduled to appear at the U.N. long before this homicide bombing, hopefully the U.N. will consider doing their jon this go-round.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. I thought the UN was irrelevant according to the Bushites?

How come they're asking an irrelevant organization to takeover the running of their fuckup. Well I guess at least it would be hard for anybody to fuckup the situation more than the boy-idiot president has.

[Hobarticus]

6. Annan needs to tell Bush...

"Iraq ain't an oil well, and the UN ain't your daddy. Clean up your own mess".

[reprobate]

24. Perfect.

Little Boots greatest fear is that there'll be no one to bail him out this time. To be responsible for his actions is the one thing that our very own Caligula is truly terrified of. He has no background in 'responsibility'.

[JoeNormal]

7. Well...

My hope is the U.N. becomes relevent again in a big way. The world NEEDS a strong U.N.

[0007]

10. Yes, and I would trust that the U.S. will be more honest with the U.N.

in the future, 'eh?

[Hobarticus]

12. I do too...

But Annan's one tough cookie, and hopefully not one to play into anyone's hands.

He's a bigger man than Bush, he'll swallow his pride and do the right thing, but just hope he doesn't give Bush, Powell (especially Powell, that lying sack of sh*t mouthpiece), and Bremer a free ride.

I hope he sets all sorts of contingencies for UN assistance...one of them being that any force comes under UN control.

A pipe dream, I know, but a lot's at stake.

[aquart]

19. How pissed off would the freepers be if the UN took over?

[alcuno]

5. Don't freak out just because it says "al jazeera."

The article doesn't say what you are implying it says; that the US is going to the UN BECAUSE of the bombing. The Ayatollah Sistani is calling the shots now.

Also, you said that hopefully the UN will consider doing it's job this go-round. When have they not? Just because they didn't believe the WMD/911 connection that our government was making doesn't mean they weren't doing their job. They listened to Powell and * and found the arguments filled with holes. Why should they be blamed for being right?

[no_arbusto]

9. "doing their jon"?

That's pretty funny.

[mike_c]

13. the U. N. did their job last go-around precisely as they should....

They listened to the Bush* administration's rationale for war, decided it was BS, and acted properly in refusing real international cooperation in the invasion of Iraq. That's what the U.N. is supposed to do: try to prevent one of its member states from prosecuting an unjust and illegal war on another member state. The U.S. chose to go the way of rogue nations, i.e. unilateral aggression against another country that posed little or no threat to anyone else. What part of that suggests that the U.N. failed to "do their jon (sic)?"

[pocoloco]

14. This is a Reuters story picked up by Aljazeera,

you can rate the story at Yahoo below. Could be like selling refrigerators to Eskimos!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040118/ts_nm/iraq_dc

[niceypoo]

18. homicide bomber?

Isnt that the term for "Suicide bomber" used on Freeper republic and FAUX news?

[lefty_mcduff]

21. Isn't

homicide bomber a little redundant. Oh wait, that's what they call it on Faux. My bad...

[jpak]

27. The UN DID do its "jon" last time.

After the first Gulf War, UN inspectors discovered and destroyed ALL of Saddam's WMD and WMD programs.

That's why there aren't any WMD in I-raq and that's why ChimpCo had to lie and lie and lie about them.

Furthermore, the UN Security Council would not have voted to go to war because they (and everyone else with eyes and ears and a brain in his/her head) knew that Bush was a liar hellbent on the conquest of I-raq's oil wealth.

"homocide bomber" = Rove-speak. Give it up.

[Hobarticus]

4. This just in...Annan flips Bremer the bird

UN should just say, "you broke it, you fix it".

I can see it now...BushCo blew the invasion and occupation, the UN comes in to fix it...and BushCo takes the credit.

I want US troops to stop dying as much as the next guy, but BushCo humiliated the UN before, during, and after the invasion...why should they help us? Can anyone blame them if they don't?

[IndianaGreen]

8. Looks like Bush doesn't believe in the "we broke it, we fix it" doctrine

and neither do I. We must withdraw from Iraq immediately! Bush will do it just to neutralize the issue and get his sorry ass elected. We must do it to save lives.

[imax2268]

15. I think their motto is...

We broke it, Halliburton will rape the taxpayers to fix it...!

What a bunch of A$$holes...basically gives the bird to the UN and now is going back begging for help...pathetic...

[vanityfair]

17. Yeah, real "superpower" behaviour! N/t

.

[aquart]

20. It won't save lives.

There will be a civil war. There are three factions that hate each other and a nervous Turkey waiting to jump in to maintain its status quo with the Kurds.

We have brought death to that nation.

[0007]

23. The civil war may have to wait if the U.S. doesn't leave Iraq

If the Wahhabi's, Sunni's, Kurd's, Bat'this and the Shi'ite's united all hell will break out.

The most popular political party on the sprawling campus of Baghdad University is not the widely-despised Ahmad Chalabi's neo-conservative-backed Iraqi National Congress. It is the Iraq
Islamist Party

[fabius]

11. This is the Kucinich platform!

UN in, US out. Looks like Chimpy has been listening to Dennis.

[kentuck]

16. I just read in the last day or so that the Editor of Al Jazeera has ...

gone to BBC?? Anyone else hear that?

[0007]

26. I heard the same thing!

[leftchick]

22. "fears in the WH about the path the country may take"?!?

Puleeeaasse.... they do not give a flying fuck what happens to the Iraqis, Afghanis, our Soldiers or American Citizens. The ONLY thing they care about is power and enriching themselves and their criminal cronies.... :puke:

[teryang]

25. American neocons destroy nation

Ask UN to fix it.