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Sauron · 07-11-2003, 10:28 AM

...but Dubya sure wants them to help shoulder the postwar costs. Naturally.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3058469.stm

Quote:

US 'needs help in Iraq'

The Bush administration is coming under growing domestic pressure over its Iraq strategy amid continuing attacks on US forces in the country.

The US Senate has voted unanimously to urge President George W Bush to consider asking Nato and the United Nations for help in rebuilding Iraq.

The non-binding resolution said that while it was in the interests of the United States to remain engaged in Iraq, conditions there posed a serious threat to American troops.

Public opinion in the US appears to reflect this disquiet, with polls showing a marked decline in support for the Bush administration's policy on Iraq.

The Senate vote came after General Tommy Franks, until recently at the helm of US-led coalition forces in Iraq, warned that American forces might have to remain in the country far longer than anticipated.

yahwehyadayada · 07-11-2003, 01:02 PM

I hope the UN, & NATO, for that matter, tell bushco, "You broke it, you bought it".

Danya · 07-11-2003, 01:48 PM

I'm enjoying the fact that the people who went on television day after day claiming the UN was irrelevent and should be done away with are now being pressured to go to them with their hat in their hands because we need their help. I'm sure they'll expect Powell to do it all. I'd rather see it come from Rumsfeld, Bush, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Perle. I hope the UN holds out for at least that...but I don't want them to turn us down. I want them to make it clear who's mess this was and how they were strongly opposed to the invasion in the first place.

Bush should not have any chance to use UN cooperation as some kind of justification or excuse regarding the question of legality for this war. I don't think that question has been fully studied and answered yet.

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07-11-2003, 01:02 PM	#2
yahwehyadayada Regular Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: WI Posts: 290	I hope the UN, & NATO, for that matter, tell bushco, "You broke it, you bought it".

07-11-2003, 01:48 PM	#3
Danya Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: USA Posts: 638	I'm enjoying the fact that the people who went on television day after day claiming the UN was irrelevent and should be done away with are now being pressured to go to them with their hat in their hands because we need their help. I'm sure they'll expect Powell to do it all. I'd rather see it come from Rumsfeld, Bush, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Perle. I hope the UN holds out for at least that...but I don't want them to turn us down. I want them to make it clear who's mess this was and how they were strongly opposed to the invasion in the first place. Bush should not have any chance to use UN cooperation as some kind of justification or excuse regarding the question of legality for this war. I don't think that question has been fully studied and answered yet.

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