Brahimi: between UN, US, Iraq, and a hard place

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said in an interview that pushy Americans, foot-dragging Iraqis and a lack of security made his job of assembling an interim Iraqi government difficult.

"The security situation is just impossible," Brahimi told Time.


However, better security "will require a lot of work" by the Iraqis, he told the newsmagazine.


Brahimi is UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites)'s special envoy to Iraq (news - web sites). The 70-year-old diplomat has been in Baghdad for three weeks consulting with Iraqis in a race against US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s June 30 deadline for returning power to Iraqis.


"I am telling Iraqis, If you expect that on the 30th of June, midnight, 135,000 American soldiers are going to evaporate out of some Aladdin's lamp out of Iraq, then that is not going to happen," Brahimi said in the issue of Time that hits newsstands Monday.

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more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040530/pl_afp/un_iraq_brahimi&cid=1521&ncid=1480

[Wright Patman]

1. The U.S. economy,

as hollowed out as it is, will not support occupations of foreign countries involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers for too much longer.

To quote the late Sammy Davis Jr., "Somethin's gotta give."

They are going to try to cut domestic social programs to support the empire abroad and then we will see how much support the flag-waving elderly on welfare (okay, "entitlements") have for all this crap.

[BillZBubb]

2. Brahimi and the UN got played for suckers--again!

They believed Bush* was serious about wanting their help. He used them for cover and leverage. Then when he could get what he wanted from the stooges on the Governing Council, he undercut Brahimi.

Some people never learn. The UN leadership has to be a dumb as dirt to get abused over and over by such obvious Bush* ploys. No doubt it'll happen again soon.