[Yeti]

"The suggestion that some of my colleagues would give that now that the coalition has done all of this and liberated Iraq, thank you very much, step aside and the Security Council is now going to become responsible for everything, is incorrect. And they know it. And they were told it," Powell said.

We need to push the idea that it is our RESPONSIBILITY to see to it that the building process progresses in a way that is stable and beneficial to the Iraqi people. Letting the UN/france/etc... frame it in terms of who "gets" to is a mistake. If we use their language, the shades of meaning paint us as taking spoils.

Instead of saying "we get to" and "they dont get to," we should be saying "we must," "they must not," "we cannot allow," "we cannot risk" and "it is our obligation."

[estpeter]

...and the US gets to VETO any decision the UN is allowed to make.