I am taking it as a good bet that this will make pay dirt for all concerned of hubris and arrogance of * and posse. They might be able to turn off the news of what’s going on over here, but that does not stop it from happening or make all the rest of world stop looking at it.
http://www.antiwar.com/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/14/international/worldspecial/14DIPL.html?ex=1061825257&ei=1&en=893857e456c68f55U.S. Abandons Idea of Bigger U.N. Role in Iraq Occupation
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN with FELICITY BARRINGER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 —
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Administration officials said that in spite of the difficult security situation in Iraq, there was a consensus in the administration that it would be better to work with these countries than to involve the United Nations or countries that opposed the war and are now eager to exercise influence in a postwar Iraq.
"The administration is not willing to confront going to the Security Council and saying, 'We really need to make Iraq an international operation,' " said an administration official. "You can make a case that it would be better to do that, but right now the situation in Iraq is not that dire."
The administration's position could complicate its hopes of bringing a large number of American troops home in short order. The length of the American occupation depends on how quickly the country can be stabilized and the attacks and uprisings brought under control.
The thinking on broadening international forces was disclosed today as the United States moved on a separate front at the Security Council to get a resolution passed this week that would welcome the establishment of the 25-member Governing Council set up by the United States and Britain in Iraq.
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