[monkeywrench]

"Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, said: "We are all agreed on the need to have a role for the UN but there needs to be a lot of discussions."

Yes, LOTS and LOTS of 'discussions'. They're about to get into that "quagmire" we've been hearing about.

[DannyTN]

And while they are discussing, we will be pumping oil on behalf of Iraq and using the money for Iraq's reconstruction.

All the while the debating society will make itself UNuseful.

[ambrose]

Let the UN have the lovely job of "peacekeeping", while the US/UK controls the new Iraqi government and its oil supply. How's that for a compromise?