Bush Administration and Britain trying to force UN to clean up THEIR mess in Iraq [View All]

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The United States and Britain introduced on Tuesday a resolution charging the United Nations with trying to bring together Iraq's embattled factions as the two Western powers contemplate ultimately leaving.

The resolution, expected to be approved on Thursday by the 15-nation Security Council, would upgrade the mandate of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, or UNAMI, which would also include promoting dialogue between Iraq and its neighbors.

"The U.N. needs to play an enhanced role in helping the Iraqis overcome the difficulties they have at the present time," U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, formerly Washington's envoy to Baghdad, told reporters after a council debate.

"The U.N. can, given its comparative advantage, play a role in facilitating and helping Iraqis get to that goal" as well as getting regional powers to support Iraqi reconciliation and dealing with refugee problems, he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070807/pl_nm/iraq_un_dc_1

A little more of passing the responsibility onto someone else I guess, or maybe Bush and friends realize that they don't have the combined IQ to fix Iraq (Or fix their legacies).