UN powers stall on Iraq future.BBC Breaking news

[somapala]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3105954.stm

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council have failed to agree on practical steps to transfer political power to the people of Iraq.

[asjr]

1. UN

In a few years we may have tent cities, bread lines 10 miles deep, children starving, no energy, no heating, sleeping on the streets, etc. But, by God, we will still have Iraq because that is where our money stays. I guess the UN will still be irrelavent. And this regime will be living off of Halliburton funds. The arrogance of BushCo will still be alive.

[pasadenaboy]

2. it's pretty funny to me that we expect the UN to compromise`

Why would they? There is no incentive for them to pick up the tab in terms of lives and money, for a show that we are running. Powell and Bush are so naive.

[diplomats]

3. Exactly

This admin. is so arrogant.

[cliss]

4. No need to stall, guys.

The US doesn't really want you there. They have made it quite clear in the past few days. Powell says "The UN isn't ready for Iraq", "the US is going to rule Iraq". If they were really desperate, they would have moved quickly to get things reorganized.

They know that there are quite a few other countries, who are circling like barracudas*. They can see what's coming down the road. They ask themselves, "why jump in now? Let the US deal with the mess for a while longer. Let them exhaust themselves militarily and financially". "Then, 1 year from now, who knows?"

*France signed oil agreements with Hussein before he was overthrown. The USSR and several other countries have interests in Iraqi oil.

[mhr]

5. Cement Head

and his administration is populated by idiots.

Idiots!

[lindashaw]

6. Why aren't US headlines reporting this story, I wonder?

[readmylips]

7. Don't forget...the bushies stir the pot so that they can get ....

the opposite results. The bushies are losing and by putting pressure on the UN, they can walk away and blame the UN and not little man bushie. This is a political, let's elect bushie strategy. They will come back and say, we told you that the UN was irrelevant and useless.

[MGKrebs]

8. ...which seems like a dumbass strategy in the short term,

since it will continue domestic economic and political problems, but seen in the light of the deeper agenda of destroying social programs like Social Security, Welfare, and Medicare, it makes perfect sense...in a fascist kind of way.

[lumpy]

10. I agree, if the UN manages to gain

control/leadership of troops in Iraq, Bushco could point the finger, if all fails, at the UN, faulting UN leadership. The onus could fall on the UN. They must be thinking of the repercussions since it is well known how Bushco manipulates their brand of 'diplomacy'.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Eeeek!

[lumpy]

11. This guy is out of his element

playing with the big boys and the dark side.