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The United States and its coalition partners will be the "leading" force in establishing an interim Iraqi authority, and the role of the United Nations is not currently under discussion, the White House said yesterday.
"It would only be natural to expect that after having participated in having liberated Iraq with coalition forces and having given life and blood to liberate Iraq that the coalition intends to have a leading role," said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
"The exact character of the U.N.'s role is really not an issue for discussion right now," she said. FULL story