Bush Administration and Britain trying to force UN to clean up THEIR mess in Iraq

[ck4829]

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).

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. Bush's Legacy

Is the one thing from which we can all take a degree of consolation (and more than a little schadenfreude). Obviously, this legacy is extremely important to W, and from his own fantasy viewpoint, he should be up on Mt. Rushmore. Unfortunately for him, his two terms are going to go down in history as the LEAST productive presidency in American history. Unless you make millions, this ass clown who can't even drive a Segway has done NOTHING for you for almost 8 years. Actually, that's not true--he's TAKEN AWAY your civil liberties.

Gee, I sure wish the UN would go ahead and just tell W to go pound sand up his polyp-ridden ass.

[kenny blankenship]

2. Hope they thought to WARN the UN it risked becoming IRRELEVANT if it shirked its responsibility!

The UN has a clear duty now that everything has gone wrong to clean up the Iraq situation - after all, the United States and Britain are only there to enforce the UN's various Iraq Resolutions!
We didn't even want to invade but they made us do it. But do they lift a finger to help? No, it's all been done at our expense.

How will people of the world take the UN seriously anymore if they won't even acknowledge the train wreck they've made of Iraq and assign themselves most of the dirty work of cleaning it up? Irrelevant, that's what they'll be. Forgotten, and deservedly so. They deserve an extra stern wag of George Bush's finger if they keep trying to slink away from this mess. Knowing those East River diplomo-rats they'll probably try to direct criticism away from themselves preemptively by blaming other, tangentially-involved parties!

[Javaman]

3. nice to see moron* going to the UN that he once declared useless

to help bail out his* sorry fucking ass.

just like all his fuck ups in his life, he needs someone, as always, to unfuck it for him

[Karenina]

4. Steve Bell called it...

[wiggs]

5. Someone should post all the WH quotes in response to the UN offers, Kerry suggestions,

and dem encouragement to get other countries involved. You may remember that UN wanted to help but the WH didn't want any other entity to be involved in decision-making; they only wanted robots.

[onethatcares]

6. if the UN now has a role, why

do the base think the UN should be done away with? How many times have you heard someone from the right say the UN is riddled with scandal and corruption and has a third rate role in what goes on in the world? Doesn't anyone else get the emails stating that the best thing to do with the UN is move it to Latvia and flush it down the toilet?

Why do they then accept it to clean up georgieboys' mess?

[applegrove]

7. They were planning on doing away with the UN or marginalizing it

as they went into Iraq.