[areafiftyone]

I don't know how reliable this source is.

[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?

[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'

[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.

[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".)

[kcar]

The UN has no credibility. The idea that they would create a democracy that is pro-western is absurd. Besides, if we were planning to begin the bombing on Thursday, wouldn't this just be a further delay? These are just the worm-tongued emissaries of Sauron.

[DontMessWithMyCountry]

the UN would oversee the establishment of a post-Saddam government and the UN, not the US, would take stewardship of Iraq's oilfields.

An outstanding solution as to how we can rid ourselves (and the world) of the Useless Nitwits: just as soon as the Iraqi people get wind of the incessant obstructions that the UN erected to prevent Americans/Brits/Australians from liberating them from that tyrannical ba*tard, the Iraqi citizens can express their 'gratitude' (and we can look the other way) to the sundry terrorist and despot sympathizers (oh, I meant to say, 'UN delegates').

[mombonn]

72 hours, 72 virgins. What to do, what to do?
signed,
saddam

[upchuck]

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.

Whoa, whoa! We're gonna give this to the UN? I don't like this at all. The UN has proven time after time they are totally incompetent. We're just asking for lotsa trouble if this goes down.

[Gal.5:1]

Well, I guess he's going to France...

[Teacher317]

Sounds like the UN is trying desperately at the last second to not be irrelevant. It's a great plan, too, and would give France et al the glorious peaceful victory (and the incredibly embarrassing defeat of GWB) they so desperately want... I just don't see Saddam stepping and fetching for the French.

There are 3 ideologies vying for world domination right now: American capitalism, European socialism, and militant Islam. While the latter two would be thrilled to be rid of the first, Saddam surely isn't going to sacrifice himself for the cause.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

This is a nightmare scenario for us and Iraq. If the UN gets to set up the new govt. of Iraq that country may be WORSE off after Saddam leaves. OK maybe not worse off but in 10 years they won't be any better.

It is a little known fact that the UN has gotten more money from Iraq in the last 10 years than from the U.S. because the UN takes a cut off the top of all Iraqi oil sales through the oil for food program.

This is blatant attempt to keep the money flowing from Iraq to the UN and to get the UN's hands in total control of a country that they can use as their little lab experiment for their commie ideas and dreams.

The Iraqi poeple would be trading a single brutal dictator to a brutal committee of commie dictators.

This is terrible news if true. The U.S. should veto this themselves and tell the UN that the oil belongs to the Iraqi poeple and not some committee for one world domination with a Manahattan address.

[TEXOKIE]

"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. "

Again: "THE UN WOULD OVERSEE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A POST SADDAM GOVERNMENT AND THE UN NOT THE US WOULD TAKE STEWARDSHIP OF IRAQ'S OILFIELDS."

God forbid. Our President said we are liberating Iraq and its oilfields for the IRAQI PEOPLE.

I'm thinking the UN weasels are seeing their welcome days in the US are numbered and are now looking for another sugar daddy....well my my....looky over there! A bunch of oil wells just WAITING to be donated to the UN cause!

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

'Uday might be the first to shoot his father if he refused an amnesty,' one senior Jordan official is quoted as saying

Recently I heard one of Sadaam's former officials say that he didn't trust even his sons.

[LdSentinal]

I believe the United States is already looking into the possibility that Saddam will exile himself. It won't be Iran, but Syria, Lebanon, and Libya might be his destination. I'm sure the US, UK, and Israeli forces are looking to intercept such a attempt whether it's by air, land, sea, or any combination.

I don't see Saddam doing a Hitler impersonation in some underground bunker. I do, however, see him take a Manuel Noriega approach. He could go to a "friendly" embassy and seek asylum.

[fatima]

He will accept and hope he will not be killed in exile.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Finally an offer that makes some sense !!!

Regime change is the top priority. There can be no effective disarmament while the current top dogs are in power.

[merak]

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.

That would leave about 250,000 seriously bad people in American uniforms sitting there in the middle east in possession of a whole lot of ordinance no longer needed for Iraq, and without a war to fight in Iraq. One COULD view that as an opportunity...