Posted on 11/05/2004 5:55:15 PM PST by NCjim
His letter to U.S., British and Iraqi leaders warns of increasing hostility and election boycott.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned leaders of the United States, Britain and Iraq that another full-scale assault on the rebel-held city of Fallouja would further alienate Iraqis and disrupt elections planned for January.
Annan's warning, contained in a letter sent Sunday, has angered some officials here.
"This is an issue for the government of Iraq," said British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry. "It's easy for those not in Iraq to underestimate the overwhelming concern the Iraqis have for security. There cannot be an area as big as Fallouja which is allowed to be a base for terrorism."
Some diplomats said Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was "furious" when he received the letter. Iraq's new U.N. ambassador immediately sought to meet with Annan to argue that the U.N. was interfering. Allawi recently criticized Annan for not doing enough to help Iraq prepare for elections. The world body's officials say Iraq is not secure enough for more U.N. workers to help organize the nationwide vote.
Annan's letter underscores a fundamental disagreement between the U.S.-led coalition and the U.N. about how best to bring stability to Iraq.
Leaders of the U.S., Britain and Iraq say that retaking insurgent strongholds is the only way to secure the country before the elections. But Annan argued in his letter that another invasion of Fallouja would only create more enemies and spark an election boycott by Sunni Muslims.
In the letter to Allawi, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Annan acknowledged the need to restore security in Iraq but said a political process that included groups not represented in the interim government would be the best foundation for stability.
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>Let the French and its Euroweeny allies slug it out with the Islamists. It is sad to think that the Euroweenies will just cave in to the Islamists and lose it all.
Nah, like a bunch of suckers, the USA will go in and waste thousands of souls saving there sorry behinds.
Thanks for the reference to the Bricker Amendment, of which I was not aware. Has there been any recent support for it?
Did the UN boycott the US Presidential election? I think not!
Want to mount Annan's letter right next to the one about the Sudan.
ROFL.........good point, human shield is the way to go.. Kofi is the kind of guy i might want for my next door neighbor.....maybe, but I can't think of one problem he has solved during his tenure of appeasement
Super LOL
Want to mount Annan's letter right next to the one about the Sudan.
It's time for Kofi and the UN to understand that, fight it or not, they're going down for the count this time...
Too bad Kofi, F'n John would have listened to you.
Alawi is right to be pissed but I'm sure that's not
all he's pissed at the UN for.
Kofi and the UN are like the farm animals that came
up to the little red hen after she had made the bread.
"We want some of the bread little Red Hen!",they cried.
"Piss off, you little buggers!", said the little Red Hen.
ping
Annan you crook, STFU and go stand in the corner. You have proven time and time again that you promote the barbaric acts of a blood cult and it's supporters. People of the world, left to your resorses and actions, DIE, as they have in Rwanda, Etheopia, and as they are in the Sudan. This is the pattern of the UN. Do nothing and allow the genocide by the cult of blood to march freely, unfettered. ENOUGH! I demand your immediate expulsion from the UN, as well as trial for corruption, and the accessary to the murder of millions. I also demand all those other corrupt UN members involved in the oil for cash scandal be brought to trial and locked up.
One asks the real reason that Kofi doesn't want us going into Fallujah. Is it because he wants more troops to die? Is it because he wants the chaos in that area to continue, to appear as if Iraq is so "destabilized"?
Perhaps there is more to it.
Is there some material evidence that we could find in Fallujah that links this insurgency or funding of it directly to the United Nations?
He has pretty clearly identified himself as an enemy - of freedom, Iraq and the U.S. He is actually suggesting the terrorists should be made part of the government - the people who are cutting off heads and even blowing up UN buildings. We are dealing with some real sick SOB's and I don't think Bush should be diplomatic about it. Anan is a disgrace.
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