Iraqi leaders may ask U.N. to restrict U.S. military

[babylonsister]

Come on! Isn't it time to leave 'now'???


Iraqis weigh limits on U.S. military

Leaders of parliament may seek to restrict American operations in response to a rash of civilian casualties.
By Christian Berthelsen, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 23, 2007


BAGHDAD -- Leaders in the Iraqi parliament said Monday that they were taking steps to examine the U.S. military presence in Iraq with an eye toward possibly restricting the force's activities, in a continuing backlash over an American raid that Iraqi officials say killed 13 civilians.

Before the end of the year, the United Nations is expected to take up its annual reauthorization of a Security Council resolution that allows the presence of U.S. troops here. Iraqi leaders have complained that the U.S. military has used too much force in responding to attacks, leading to the deaths of civilians, and that the Americans have not coordinated enough with Iraqi forces.

The U.S. military maintained that it killed 49 "criminals" in the raid Sunday on Sadr City, a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the Iraqi capital, and was unaware of any civilian casualties. But journalists for Western news organizations, including The Times, saw the bodies of two children at the Imam Ali hospital who were killed in the attack and interviewed other children who were wounded.

The parliament speaker's office, which includes representatives from all three of Iraq's major ethnic groups, issued a statement Monday saying: "The Iraqi parliament condemns these violations that are against the basics of military work and human rights. . . . The Iraqi parliament is taking these negative violations seriously as it touches the life and dignity of Iraqis."

Leaders in parliament are to meet Oct. 31 to consider forming a committee, to be made up of representatives from various parties, to make recommendations on limitations Iraq should seek in the U.N. resolution. Factions are already squaring off, with some Sunni Arab moderates saying that the continued U.S. presence is crucial to Iraq's future and Shiite leaders angry over the U.S. incursions into their neighborhoods seeking to curtail the American presence.

It is not clear what recommendations the committee might ultimately make, but members of parliament speculated Monday that they could include limiting the U.S. presence to certain areas in Iraq. The committee also could express a desire for a mission statement that the primary goal of American troops should be to train Iraqi forces, while establishing a timeline for U.S. withdrawal.

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[Swamp Rat]

1. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. The UN? Bah!

Cheney/Bush doesn't listen to me, to you, to congress.

And he's going to listen to the UN?
:rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

4. They sure liked those resolutions against Iraq before the war

Of course, they only like the few UN resolutions that help them.

Notice that the resolutions against Israel are totally ignored, though.

[peacebird]

3. BRILLIANT! If Iraq demands the UN state that our troops be used for training only

then bushco can declare "victory" and bring our troops home! Excellent!

busholini could then claim it's a glorious victory snatched from the jaws of demo-defeatists of course :eyes:

and the koolaid drinkers will believe him, but who cares if it gets our troops home sooner.
:hide:
Of course REALLY the BEST way for this to go forward would be for Iraq to ask the UN to change our mission to training only in the resolution, have bushco BLOCK the resolution, then have Congress (led by the Dems) pull the war funding for any activity beyond the scope desired by the UN. So our troops would get to go home, and bushco would be soundly spanked.

[Beerboy]

5. What if the U.S. military ordered the Iraqi puppet to exterminate the UN?

It could happen.

[NNN0LHI]

6. may ask? That is funny n/t