Washington Post: "U.N. Support Crucial in Iraq, U.S. Says"

[Bonobo]

The United States plans to ask the United Nations on Monday to play an active role in virtually every aspect of the political transition in Iraq, from overseeing the selection of an Iraqi government and writing new laws to the transfer of power when the U.S. occupation ends on June 30, senior U.S. officials said yesterday.

The Bush administration and the Iraqi Governing Council will appeal Monday to the United Nations in New York to dispatch a team of envoys to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani to convince him that holding fair elections is impossible in the limited time left, the officials said.

"We'd like to see the U.N. involved in everything -- the whole political process. The issue now is, will they do this, and then how do they do this," said a senior State Department official.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23674-2004Jan16.html

ADMINS: Not sure if this is a dupe, but I thought it deserved its own thread besides the Sistani only spin.

[cthrumatrix]

1. Shrub -- "UN is irrelevant" ....did he lie again?

[jpgray]

2. I can almost taste the deafening silence from the pundits on this one

Um... er... what are the Democrat(ic) candidates wearing? Let's analyze that!

[HawkerHurricane]

3. Gee, maybe they should have tried to get UN support...

BEFORE they invaded under false pretenses!

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[RedSock]

4. hey look everybody

michael jackson is holding an umbrella!!!!! let's go to our live correspondent for some analysis ...

...

I would love to hear the UN tell DumbAss, in the words of Larry David, "Fuck Hugh!"

[young_at_heart]

5. They want to see the UN involved in everything????

Nine months ago I heard Richard Perle tell Charlie Rose that the UN was irrelevant and not important. What is he saying now?

[leesa]

6. Conservatives: "The UN is irrelevent"

Hopefully, the UN will insist that ALL US corporations get out.

[heidler]

7. To me: Bush created one hell of a mess struted around and now

his mother can't even make it go away. The poor dumb shit.

[9215]

8. Don't just DO something......stand there!

Don't just do something stand there.

That is what the UN must do to make the sure the stench from Bush's nice little shithouse war permeates the globe, so there is absolutely no question whatsoever WHO is responsible PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE for this mess.

Bush is desperately trying to shift the responsibility for his mess off on this "irrelevant" governing body.

The UN should make the bastards HOWL for help.

IMO there is no more important thing going on right now than the UN's moves, or lack thereof, here.

DON'T JUST DO SOMETHING STAND THERE!

[jpak]

9. Admission that their unilateralist policies are a failure.

Unfortunately, too late for the thousands that have died in Bush's War.

[Dr Fate]

10. Did'nt Bush/media tell us that the U.N. was "irrelevant"???

Oh, that was BEFORE we sent boys to die in the desert...