Oh, NOW you want the UN...
Sep. 3rd, 2003 06:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamBush 'offers UN greater Iraq role'
Why the US needs the UN in Iraq
So now the Bush administration wants the UN in after all, does it?
Of course, this is after pissing off quite a lot of the countries who may contribute by refusing to play it via the UN in the first place (France and Germany to name two). Not to mention that this is after the UN bombing, meaning that these countries know their troops will be a target.
Norway already have people working for the UN in Iraq. If our government will contribute a great deal of troops, I do not know. We shall see. How the Norwegian people would feel about it, I don't know. I don't even know how I would feel about it. Iraq is such a messy, complicated, sticky situation and now it's becoming quite the terrorist hotbed, too, as the lastest bombings have shown. Shi'ite and Sunni tensions are high, frustration is growing... No, not a good place to be.
On the other hand - what has happened has happened. Iraq may have a chance to become 'unmessy', as it were, and if Norway can help, we bloody well should. (As much as I'd like my country to show Bush a certain finger, that will hardly help Iraq)
While I was surfing BBC as usual, I also came across this on Norway
Norway's unique brand of pacifism.
Heh, someone likes us.
Why the US needs the UN in Iraq
So now the Bush administration wants the UN in after all, does it?
Of course, this is after pissing off quite a lot of the countries who may contribute by refusing to play it via the UN in the first place (France and Germany to name two). Not to mention that this is after the UN bombing, meaning that these countries know their troops will be a target.
Norway already have people working for the UN in Iraq. If our government will contribute a great deal of troops, I do not know. We shall see. How the Norwegian people would feel about it, I don't know. I don't even know how I would feel about it. Iraq is such a messy, complicated, sticky situation and now it's becoming quite the terrorist hotbed, too, as the lastest bombings have shown. Shi'ite and Sunni tensions are high, frustration is growing... No, not a good place to be.
On the other hand - what has happened has happened. Iraq may have a chance to become 'unmessy', as it were, and if Norway can help, we bloody well should. (As much as I'd like my country to show Bush a certain finger, that will hardly help Iraq)
While I was surfing BBC as usual, I also came across this on Norway
Norway's unique brand of pacifism.
Heh, someone likes us.
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Date: 2003-09-03 12:16 am (UTC)Anyhoo, Iraq is a disaster. More US soldiers have been killed since Bush declared "victory" than were killed during the official "war" phase of the propaganda, and that doesn't show any signs of slowing down. Meanwhile the federal deficit is in the staggering billions even without the cost of keeping troops over there (BTW, most of the troops were told they'd be over there a couple months at most. Ha!) The US has NO world credibility left, and so Bush is trying to pass off the cost and the responsibility without giving up the power (and the right to give exclusive, bid-free lucrative contracts to Cheney's cronies in Halliburton). UN is less than thrilled. But they'll probably step in and clean up the mess as best they can, because somebody has to
Meanwhile, Afghanistan is still falling apart. US television, of course, has already forgotten it ever knew where Afghanistan was. (Considering Bush himself seems to have only looked it up for the first time in his life under duress on September 12, 2001, I guess I can't be too shocked by that.)
What a fscking idiot.
Date: 2003-09-03 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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