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U.S. says will not cede control of Iraq to U.N.
Reuters
| 3/26/03
Posted on 03/26/2003 2:20:23 PM PST by kattracks
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:20:23 PM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
France weeps.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:21:28 PM PST
by
dead
To: Grampa Dave
Ping...
To: kattracks
Excellent. They obviously have thought from the beginning that the Iraqi citizen didn't deserve any better than Saddam, they can't be trusted in the future to fill their needs. And they certainly don't deserve it.
France, Russia, and Germany must be spitting teeth over this speech.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:22:42 PM PST
by
I still care
(All evil needs to prosper is that good men do nothing)
To: kattracks
Excellent. We should all send Annan, Chirac, Schroeder and Putin the story of the Little Red Hen (moral of the story: those who don't help make dinner, don't eat dinner).
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:22:47 PM PST
by
mondonico
(Peace through Superior Firepower)
To: kattracks
Weasels of the world, take note: That U.N. veto works both ways.
France and Russia must be in a panic about the loss of their oil and defense contracts with Iraq, to say nothing of their impending defeat at the U.N. security council.
To: dead
The first thing we have to do once Baghdad is taken is get a mob of Sheeites to sack the French embassy.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:23:12 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: kattracks
The coalition is the Bush administration's term for the United States, Britain and the other minor contributors to the invasion of Iraq they launched last week. I guess sending troops like denmark, netherland, poland, australia, etc did is considered minor to Reuters.
To: kattracks
Why not turn Iraq over to the U.N. to set up their new government? Look at the great job most of it's members are doing in their own homelands! Look at the great job they're doing in what used to be Yugoslavia, which is an excellent analogy to Iraq in that both have mutually antagonistic ethnic groups that were kept from each other's throats by a despot. Or the great job they're doing in < African_Nation_here >.
< /sarcasm >
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:23:24 PM PST
by
RonF
To: kattracks
DIPLOMATIC RESPONSE:
"We didn't take on this huge burden with our coalition partners not to be able to have a significant dominating control over how it unfolds in the future," Powell told a House of Representatives subcommittee.
"We would not support ... essentially handing everything over to the U.N. for someone designated by the U.N. to suddenly become in charge of this whole operation," he added.
UNDIPLOMATIC TRANSLATION: Shove it where the sun don't shine.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:23:26 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Sua Sponte)
To: hchutch
UH OH......somebody's going to be upset! :-)
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:23:38 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: kattracks
ROFL.
US to UN
NUTS
To: dead
I don't think France weeps. I think something "le pew" came out of a lower orifice when they heard this.
To: Steel Wolf; MizSterious
France and Russia must be in a panic about the loss of their oil and defense contracts with Iraq,And I am deliriously happy about that. And I am sure I am not alone!
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:25:07 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: kattracks
Washington will argue that as the victor it has the right to manage the transition to an Iraqi civilian government. Its opponents will say that the invasion was illegal and that the United Nations cannot endorse it retroactively.Think of all the despots who have overthrown their country's governments and then been recognized by the U.N.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:25:15 PM PST
by
RonF
To: dead
I am hoping this stands. I am worried the British won't go along with this.
To: kattracks
This sounds great. I hope that we don't fold in the clutch.
To: Howlin
I saw we let the French patrol some remote landlocked mountainous villages (with no oil or minerals) that are equally divided between Sunnis and Shiites.
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:26:20 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: TADSLOS
"...EF'OFF UN...STRONG MESSAGE TO FOLLOW..."
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posted on
03/26/2003 2:26:29 PM PST
by
Mustang
(Evil Thrives When Good People Do Nothing!)
To: kattracks
"We have picked on a greater obligation -- to make sure there is a functioning Iraqi government that is supported by the coalition, the center of gravity remaining with the coalition, military and civilian," This makes perfect sense. After all, the United Nations runs the United Nations, and it is completely imcompetent. Why let them do the same to Iraq? In God's name, why are we losing our men and women to death and capture, only to turn Iraq over to the stinkers at the U.N.???
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