France Urges Quick Vote, International Force in Iraq

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Real headline: France calls little boots bluff. Just what Junior needs right now. The French looking reasonable and coming in to save Bush's bacon in Iraq. Thus, proving they were right all along, and Bush was wrong all along both in one fell sweep. And it took almost 300 dead Americans before Bush could figure it out. Won't play well in Peoria. Don

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030828/wl_nm/iraq_france_dc&cid=574&ncid=1480

PARIS (Reuters) - France called on Thursday for a change of policy direction in Iraq, with the United States handing political power to an Iraqi provisional government and security over to a United Nations-mandated multilateral force.

Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, speaking a day after Washington indicated it could consider a U.N.-sponsored force, said France wanted "a real international force."

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said in an interview released on Wednesday that Washington -- which wants help to assure security in an increasingly insecure Iraq -- might accept a U.N. force if the commander was an American.

But Villepin hinted that might not be enough and that France thought Iraq first needed a provisional government able to help define the country's security needs.

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[TioDiego]

1. Bush can't win either way.

Watch Rove try to play the Little Red Hen spin. Watch.

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2. "If the commander was American"

Gotta keep our finger on the power button until a couple hundred more GIs come home in bags.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Would the term here be "diplomatic surrender"?

hehehehe-

It is a Hobson's choice for the BUSH/PNAC neocons.....why wouldn't they be happy to offload their burden...unless the real reason we went in was for the oil?

But if we go it alone, when will the oil revenue ever come on line?

It must not be too much fun for george these days....bet he'd like to make his vacation in Crawford permanent.

[Mari333]

4. The French were right, and so were we. Bush is a joke.

[David Zephyr]

5. Iraq is About to Boil Over and Bush, Rove, Perle and Rummy Know It

Bush has no negotiating strengths here with the U.N.

Bush is about to face a complete chaotic situation in Iraq with a meltdown in order and total urban warfare which is why he is begging for a lifesaver...at any price because he fears the wrath of the American people.

He is "retreating" (to use his very word this week). We must all frame his retreat as a retreat...a cry for help.

The French must be feeling pretty smug today...they deserve to be.

George Bush has disgraced the American military and our nation. He should be impeached.

Background on the Bush's Waving the White Flag: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=240365

[PATRICK]

6. Since Bush STILL wants the

UN doing the dirty work while we "move on" and still own Iraq this drama has no good conclusion.

So why don't the right wingnuts howl about caving into the UN? Because they don't believe Bush will or can do anything the UN is suggesting.
Why do the papers show Bush being reasonable and "changing" for a better, cooperative plan? Because they still give our head creep the nbenefit as our soldiers bleed for nothing.

How long can this insane disconnect keep up?