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We arrogantly cast out the incompotent UN weapons inspectors for failing to deliver us a reason to wage war, only to wage a war anyway and find after six months of occupation, governance, and policing that there are no signs of WMD
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The numerous contradictions and ironic decisions associated with the administration also never cease to amaze me. I recall Bush saying months ago, before the War in Iraq officially began, that if the U.N. could not pass a smaller time frame with which to invade Iraq, they would become "irrelevant". Seems as if the exact opposite is becoming true now, and Bush is having to swallow a bit of his pride, as well as a bit of his own BULL ******
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2003Sep2.html
PASSAGE FROM ARTICLE: In an effort to win broader international support for U.S. policies in Iraq, President Bush decided yesterday to seek U.N. Security Council approval of a resolution granting the world body greater control over multinational peacekeeping forces and a role in forming a new Iraqi government, administration officials said.
The decision marks a major shift for Bush after months in which the administration had strongly resisted granting any significant military or political authority to the United Nations. It reflects a recognition within the administration that a stronger U.N. mandate is essential to winning greater foreign military and economic help in stabilizing Iraq.
The president's decision came in the face of mounting congressional calls for allowing the United Nations to play a greater role, and marked an opening gambit in what should prove to be prolonged and difficult negotiations with Security Council members in the run-up to an address by Bush to the opening of the U.N. General Assembly later this month. The speech will come one year after the president went to the world body to outline his case for war against Iraq.