[Pukin Dog]

I don't watch CNN, I don't know. I've been talking to people on the phone who are watching all the networks to see if they even got the point. It went right over their heads, but someone will write about it soon enough, and then we can see the U.N. go nuts. They will try to say it is "too early", that Iraq is not ready yet to govern their own affairs, but they are already on record saying that the U.S. should turn over sovereignty to Iraq as soon as possible. They get no big money deals, no oil, nothing. But if they don't support Iraq, then they look horrible, and you might even see Kofi Annan on trial in Iraq. Saddam may just implicate the U.N. for spite before they cut his head off.

I've said it before, Bush knows when to hold em' and when to fold' em.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I've said it before, Bush knows when to hold em' and when to fold' em.

LOVE IT!!

[Petronski]

As soon as someone, anyone, is named, the leftist press will teach the American public all about Diem...

...It's the new Vietnam, donchaknow.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"you might even see Kofi Annan on trial in Iraq. Saddam may just implicate the U.N. for spite before they cut his head off."

Hoo boy, there's nothing better than fore-shadowing!

[lavrenti]

I agree I found it amazing the media chatty cathys failed to pick up what was the central theme of the speech.

Iraq ruled by Iraqis, without a UN side-structure or peacekeeping force.

I'm taking bets that Tom Friedman will be the first to point this out.

[Keith]

Pukin, I gotta ask...would your source know how they will deal with whatever government Ibrahim (or whatever...the UN guys) announces...couldn't the UN get back in by having him choose a gov't to the UN's liking...?