THE U.N.'S POWER GRAB IN IRAQ

NY Post ^ | May 6,2004 | Amir Taheri

[nuconvert]

May 6, 2004 -- WITHIN the next week or so, the United Nations' special envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, is expected to unveil his plan for handling the transition in Baghdad. How America and its Coalition allies react to that plan could determine not only the future of democracy in Iraq but also the fate of President Bush's strategy for a new Middle East.

[eureka!]

I don't think that W & Co. are going to let UN get its greedy little hands on anything material there. They are window dressing. JMHO....

[dalebert]

UN people won't got to Iraq until the fighting is done.

[Wolverine]

They will only go to Iraq to line their pockets with grafted money and shady deals that benefit them directly.

[anniegetyourgun]

"If Iraq is abandoned to the United Nations, be sure that the United States will have to return and fight another war in the Middle East within just a few years. The 2003 Iraq war of liberation had to be fought because America and its allies shrunk from finishing the 1991 war once they'd liberated Kuwait. Had the U.S.-led coalition marched on Baghdad in 1991 to depose Saddam Hussein and install a pluralist regime, the 2003 war would not have been necessary."

And yet, abandoning Iraq to the U.N. is exactly what candidate Kerry wants to do.

[the_Watchman]

With a U.N. plan to be unveiled within two weeks, expect the complaints about the prisoner abuse to get REALLY shrill. This could explain why Nightline ran a segment suggesting that the "Mission Failed" due to this prison hubbub.

[onedoug]

No.

[atomicpossum]

Refuse UN involvement until they fully disclose all oil-for-food contracts.

Now, however, the United Nations is demanding that America and its allies should bear the cost of rebuilding Iraq (both in terms of lives lost in combating insurgents and terrorists, and taxpayers' money to the tune of over $100 billion), but have virtually no say in deciding the direction the Iraqi transition should take.

Make Saddam's oil-contract buddies take it out of their profits.

[Tacis]

Why don't we just pay Brahimi off? Saddam was slipping him millions every year from the Food-For-Oil program. That's all he wants to do (and so does Kofi and his son), revive the revenue flow. Pay him off and he'll go away. He is, after all, a career UNer.

[freekitty]

I don't think so.

[CyberAnt]

THE IRAQI PEOPLE HATE THE UN.

I don't think the UN is going to get very far because Bush has SAID from the beginning .. we're going to do what the Iraqi people want .. not what the international community wants.

[nuconvert]

They're dictating things from outside Iraq now.

[nuconvert]

"No" what?

[nuconvert]

"The impact of failure in Iraq on the region cannot be overestimated. Democratic aspirations throughout the Middle East would suffer a strategic setback, while a new era of instability could threaten energy resources vital to the global economy.

Failure in Iraq could encourage the mood of radicalism that has generated the most deadly forms of terrorism the world has witnessed."

You don't agree with this?

[nuconvert]

Unfortunately, the White House asked for Brahimi's input.

[fleur-de-lis]

I agree. No one should misunderestimate Bush.

[eureka!]

Re#11 Bingo, Big Time. And W does what he says. As for the Iraqis, I would bet their loathing for the UN knows no bounds. My hope of hopes is that their new justice system metes out some towards Kofi & Co. Civil and criminal. Perchance to dream....

[onedoug]

No.