Iraq Chief Will Face Tough U.N. Questions

[Eye and Monkey]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-UN-General-Assembly-Iraq.html

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 19, 2004
Filed at 6:29 p.m. ET

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- As he makes his debut before the U.N. General Assembly, Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi will face serious questions about whether worsening violence in his country will allow January elections to take place on schedule.

The assembly's annual ministerial meeting beginning Tuesday is being held in the shadow of a new claim by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the U.S.-led war in Iraq was illegal and his warning last week that there could not be ``credible elections if the security conditions continue as they are now.''

Annan may well clash with President Bush over both judgments, but Bush has indicated he'll seek to steer the debate away from the divisive topic of Iraq toward fighting poverty, promoting democracy and combating terrorism.

Two years after Bush outlined the U.S. case against Saddam Hussein at the General Assembly and laid out his case for war -- which the U.N. Security Council rejected -- the president will deliver a strikingly different message when he speaks to the 191-member world body on Tuesday.

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[knowbody0]

1. allawi

he looks a lot like tony suprano-the walk, the no neck thing the attitude

[Rose Siding]

2. Judging from his appearance on This Week, he'll tell incredible tales

http://www.americablog.org/

Just watched this guy on THIS WEEK. Very sad. He comes off like a big American puppet. Creepy too. Total liar, denies everything. Iraq is a-okay, he says. No problem there at all. Yep, nothing to lose your head over:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Since you've taken office, the insurgents have grown in strength, they're controlling more territory, they're killing more Americans and killing more Iraqis, are they willing this war right now?

IRAQI PRIME MINISTER: I don't think so. I think you're information is wrong.

STEPHANOPOULOS: It's wrong? They're not growing in strength right now?

IRAQI PRIME MINISTER: No.

STEPHANOPOULOS: All the reports are that they're controlling three dozen towns...

IRAQI PRIME MINISTER: I think you really should reconsider the information that you are getting.... The tensions are much less now.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Forgive me sir, but you keep saying the tensions are less. You've been reading headlines all week, 300 Iraqis dead, an attack every single day, it seems to be getting worse not better

IRAQI PRIME MINISTER: No, you are looking at the negative sides only, there are a lot of positive things.


http://www.americablog.org/

Is that comedy or what? :cry: