UN plan to give Saddam 72 hours to leave Baghdad

Sunday Herald ^ | 3/8/03

[Conservababe]

If the UN has to make under the table deals...they are officially irrevelant. LOL

[onedoug]

Truly pathetic. How does the United Naturists propose to enforce this pansy-ass farce?

[areafiftyone]

LOL - Does Ivan ever sleep?

[Dog Gone]

Yikes!

[TheDon]

Wishful thinking.

[deport]

Who needs 72...... looks like it may well be underway

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On the ground, too, the war has begun. Several thousand American, British and Australian special forces troops are already on missions inside Iraq, and are carrying out operations on a scale unprecedented since the Second World War. Among them are more than 300 SAS troops whose mission is to identify Iraqi troop positions and confirm that targets chosen from satellite images for the first wave of attacks in the air bombardment are what they look like from the air.

'The second Gulf war has already begun'

[FreeReign]

Saddam won't take it...

Why do you say that?

[CommandoFrank]

I'll believe it when I see it, but wouldn't it put the skids on the Democraps. Let's see, we ARE winning the war with Osama's boys; now there is a possibility of no war but victory thanks to GW.

Next we have to get people to realize that there is not a country in the world, including Korea, that doesn't know that if they launch an ICBM on us that even before it hits us, their country will be an instant glass parking lot.

The threat of nuclear weapons is not from any country direct but via terrorists and we're working on that.

[arkady_renko]

He'd better not sleep, we'll miss out on all the spiffy news from the Isles. Just a gentle nudge, you know. :)

[Numbers Guy]

Saddam won't take it, and such a result would be an unmitigated disaster, but if it makes the UN vote for a force resolution, so be it.

Exactly. It makes it easier for UN authorization, which takes care of our world (and domestic) political problems, so it's definitely a way to go.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I think we've okayed this part of the plan. The only two options are us or the U.N. and we can't get away with controlling them. Iraq has no organizations in place to control them itself.

[RandyRep]

Just what I predicted last Thursday - but I thought (hoped) that Bush would make the offer.

The twist here is that the sons of Saddam have a lot more at stake here than he does.

[#3Fan]

If the proposal, understood to be in the form of a short paragraph, becomes part of a second resolution and is adopted by the Security Council, the UN would oversee the establishment of a post-Saddam government and the UN, not the US, would take stewardship of Iraq's oilfields

The UN wants to "steward" the oilfields? This is a little strange. It's been obvious from the beginning that the countries against us in the UN are against us because of economic jealousy and now they want to "steward" Iraq's oilfields after we defeat Saddam. hmmm. It looks to me like they're saying to themselves: "well we know the US will go in, so let's at least grab the oil fields in the process". We've said that the Iraqis themselves will steward their own oil fields, haven't we?

(If the UN gets the oil fields, expect Bill Clinton to become head of the UN. It's always "follow the money".)

[Howlin]

now there is a possibility of no war but victory thanks to GW.

Don't kid yourself. They would turn this into WHY we need the U.N., to reign in "cowboys" like Bush.

[Lunatic Fringe]

If France gets all pissy about 10 days, why would they accept 72 hours?

Because this would give control of Iraqi oil fields to the UN, and not the US.

[Dog Gone]

Because he still thinks he can win. And he's done so every time the UN has ever tried to take him on.

He's invincible, and he's reading how France, China, and Russia, will all veto anything that can hurt him.

He knows he's hidden everything except a drone and a few old chemical shells. Hans Blix is on his side. "Millions" of marchers are on his side.

Tom Daschle is on his side.

He ain't gonna step down from the best gig he's ever had, just because of a few words on a UN resolution.

[CommandoFrank]

What is it about those who have to put their hands in a facial shot?

Are their heads loose, about to fall off?

Are they that tired?

Are they proud of their hand?

Makes you wonder where the other hand is...

Beats me...

[CommandoFrank]

What is it about those who have to put their hands in a facial shot?

Are their heads loose, about to fall off?

Are they that tired?

Are they proud of their hand?

Makes you wonder where the other hand is...

Beats me...

[AndyJackson]

Howlin, we're talking about the UN here, so there's no reason to start using logic

Keep it up - trying to use logic to figure out the UN - and you will end up in the loonie bin.

[lmr]

I am a trash man myself... In a rear-loading packer as shown, as soon as the blade pulls the trash from the hopper to the bed, there would be a very high risk of injury and even death, especially if Sadaam was concealed in a large rear load dumpster as the one shown. He would have a better chance of survival in a front-load can, so I wouldn't rule that out. Saddam is too chicken-sh*t to leave this way. ;-)LOL.