U.S. Asks U.N. to Resolve Iraq Conflict

[Seldona]

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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has alternately fought with, derided and sidelined the United Nations (news - web sites) for more than a year as it pursued the war in Iraq (news - web sites), then reserved postwar authority mostly for itself.


But now American officials are asking the United Nations for assistance in getting out of a dangerous political stalemate in the still embattled country.


The plea for help may be a sign "of genuine concern on the part of the United States that things aren't going well," said Christopher Preble, a foreign affairs analyst at the libertarian CATO Institute in Washington. "Before ... I think that U.N. involvement was seen by ... the Bush administration as being more trouble that it was worth."


Others are more blunt. "It's a comeuppance," said Joseph Montville, a U.S. diplomat to Baghdad in the 1960s who now heads a diplomacy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.


The United States has asked the United Nations to settle a U.S.-Iraqi dispute over how to select leaders to rule the country after U.S. occupation authorities hand over sovereignty on June 30. Some 100,000 troops will still remain after that.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040123/ap_on_go_pr_wh/help_from_un&cid=544&ncid=716

We must be in deeper doodoo than Whistle Ass is letting on. The political fallout from this will be dire.

This is what? The fourth time now we have gone crawling back to the UN?

What this article doesn't say really is just how much control the administration is ultimately willing to give up, though Cheney does weigh in with his idiocy.

I do believe Bush has just beaten himself.

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. That's Rich.....

It's like the fucking hokey pokey. First it's relevant, than it's not...

Just admit that the Iraq war was a massive fucking failure and that the liberals were right and we can go crawling back to the UN and get this mess resolved.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

2. Asking on "old Europe" to save his butt eh?

I thought they were irrelevant? }(

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Please save my ass, it's election year

[moondust]

4. "Save me daddy, save me!"

"So I can go make some more catastrophes."

[leftchick]

5. The US still believes they will keep troops there at a base....

even after Iraq is "handed" over. These people are delusional....

[Iverson]

6. This deserves prominence.

therefore, kick.

[Just Me]

7. I am so torn about this,...

,..I believe the best interests of the Iraqi people would be served through the leadership of the UN. But, I sure as hell don't want the "Bush Loyalists" to be given a scintilla of credit for the UN's "relevance" in cleaning up the PNAC mess!!!

I hope the UN gets fully engaged in pulling the broken pieces of Iraq back together,...I also hope the UN makes a great big public stink about the administration's belligerence and all costs related to that belligerence!!! This debacle is completely the responsibility of the Bush regime and they are the ones who should fully suffer the consequences.

[kclown]

10. The U.N.'s position can only be

while the crazy ones are tied up in Iraq, they can't start
trouble anywhere else.  We'll wait to see if we have new
people to deal with in Jan. 2005.

[zanana]

8. Didn't Bush say the UN was "obsolete"?

Or was it "irrelevant"? Does anybody remember his exact words when he was dissing the UN, pre-Iraq attack?

[reprobate]

9. "irrelevant" was the word that was used by the maladministration

[peekaloo]

13. "an irrelevant debating society"

[gbwarming]

11. This is a lose-lose for the UN

The form of election is irrelevant to the (increased) chaos that will follow the US pullout. I cynically think this is just a ploy to shift blame onto the UN.

[Barrett808]

12. Pathetic

This whole imperialism-on-the-cheap episode has shown the world how utterly weak we are. And now the world is turning its back on us.

[tom_paine]

14. Sure it's disgusting, craven and cowardly

But that's what the Emperor of Amerika and his pathetic Stooges are.

[bushisanidiot]

15. President "Bring It On" Dumbass Needs to RESIGN! He Has Clearly FAILED to

FAILED to lead this nation!

The UN and the new president of the united states and his staff will have a lot of shit to clean up when the chimp is gone. I would NOT expect the UN to listen to president AWOL's pleas for mercy with any compassion at all considering how he has openly mocked them.

friggin' IDIOT chimp!!