[CurlyDave]

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

This allows the UN to emerge victorious, prevents the US from taking a physical inventory of just what is in Iraq, and gives the UN a stream of income from the oil.

Sounds to me like the US has provided the courage, the leadership, and the troups, and at the last second the UN wants to come in and defeat us.

[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.

[TexKat]

Sounds to me like the US has provided the courage, the leadership, and the troups, and at the last second the UN wants to come in and defeat us.

Do you think Dubya and the administration would let this happen? Heard a few minutes ago they (Dubya and part if not all the administration) just had a special called meeting. Don't know what it was about though.