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Iraq : UN in Iraq-Con
- Help Not Wanted
-- Irrespective of whether we should seek to have Europeans, Pakistanis, or Indians dying with or in lieu of Americans, irrespective of whether murderous Baathists and Sunni fundamentalists would feel less "occupied" seeing Turks in their country, and irrespective of whether the antiwar countries of the EU would actually give meaningful financial aid to Iraq, the idea of a "new coalition" to oversee the reconstruction of Iraq is entirely unwise.
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- House Probers Conclude Iraq War Data Was Weak
-- (September 28, 2003) A bipartisan committee in the US House of Representatives accuses US intelligence agencies of "significant deficiencies" in gathering information to justify war against Iraq. The committee found outdated information and "piecemeal" new evidence used to conclude that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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- Iraq's Future vs. The UN's Track Record
-- Kosovo has now spent a considerable period of time under the supervision of the United Nations, which governs it through a structure known as UNMIK -- the UN Mission in Kosovo. It increasingly appears that the UN will also take over a major share in ruling from Baghdad.
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- The Coming Peacekeeping Disaster in Iraq
-- UN operations are usually rife with corruption and mismanagement. In many cases in Iraq, efficient American troops are being replaced by contingents less willing to work, and more eager to steal. This is going to lead to more unrest among civilians, and make it easier for the criminal gangs, Saddam diehards and Islamic radicals to operate.
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- The U.N. in Iraq?
-- Is the United Nations taking over for George W. Bush in Iraq, or carrying water for him?
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- The U.N. Will Complicate an Iraq Exit Strategy
-- The most compelling reason for marginalizing the U.N.'s role in postwar Iraq is to maximize the prospects of a prompt U.S. withdrawal from the country. If the U.N. becomes a major player, we add a party with its own agenda-and that agenda is likely to be an extended nation-building mission.
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- The U.N.'s Iraq Power Grab
-- After trying to keep Iraqis under Saddam's thumb, the United Nations now wants to control reconstruction. Bush and Blair should just say no.
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- To Build a Stable Iraq, Empower Iraqis, Not the U.N.
-- While more peacekeeping troops and reconstruction aid would be welcome, it is doubtful that greater U.N. involvement will bring with it enough additional peacekeeping troops and financial aid to make a major difference in Iraq. Moreover, there is a danger that greater U.N. involvement in Iraqi politics could impede the task of cobbling together a cohesive government and hinder the evolution of a stable Iraq.
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- U.N. Serious
-- The US is engaged in discussions with UN members, seeking financial and military support for its operations in Iraq. UN members insist that the US hand over a larger role in the civil administration of Iraq. But at the same time Kofi Annan is withdrawing UN personnel from Baghdad because it's too dangerous. This seems to disqualify the UN for any role in Iraq's immediate future, and one wonders what the participants in the current UN debate might be thinking.
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- United Nonsense
-- Here they go again, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan's famous quip - bestowing on the United Nations what President Bush called a "vital role." Someone should tell the State Department: Been there. Done that. The only "vital role" the U.N. should play is simply to lift the sanctions. They were pushed by the U.S. and U.K. against a tyrannical Iraq. Now they might be used by France, Germany, and Russia against the U.S. and U.K. with a liberated Iraq.
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- Unwelcome United Nations
-- United Nations involvement will hamper, not help. Militant Islamists and remnants of Saddam's regime interpret our turn to the U.N. as sign of weakness, while Iraqi democrats see the U.N. role as a sign of abandonment. Both associate the U.N. with corruption.
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- We Are Better Off without That UN Resolution
-- By going to war without Security Council approval, the US has avoided perpetuating the misguided idea that council authorization is necessary for the legitimate use of force abroad. American power has done much more to preserve peace than the Security Council, and thus subordinating the former to the latter would be a dangerous mistake. Instead, in order to alleviate fears about American power, Washington should stress its commitment to international law, of which the SC is only one part.
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- What If the U.S. Had Gotten the U.N. On Our Side?
-- Here's a thought experiment: Let's say that somehow -- through being more diplomatic or offering more concessions or through performing a miracle -- the Bush Administration had managed to persuade the U.N. Security Council, including France and Germany, to go along with us and to authorize a war.
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