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A politically clever move might be to avoid the UN entirely, but get the leading nations of the Coalition to run it - probably a far more international administration than the UN ever would be. Have Australian, British, American, Spanish, Polish and Danish administrators in the lead.

If this is what I think it is, then this approach is a brilliant piece of strategy by Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush. Throw M. Chirac and the rest of the UN jackals a little bone to whet their appetites and quiet them down for the moment. Then, once we are able to deal from a position of greater strength (i.e. after we find the massive caches of chem/bio weapons and all the other banned miltary hardware, prominently marked with Made in France/Russia/Germany/China), slam the door shut and tell Kofi and the boys to go pound sand.