Powell needs to haul his butt up to the United Nations

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Showdown A-Brewing

From The Dreyfuss Report
To read the American newspapers, you wouldn't even know that UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived back in Iraq on Wednesday. The reason you've probably missed it is because the American media is taking its cue from the White House and the Bush administration is lukewarm about the UN's role-even though it's Iraq's only hope, and that hope is fading fast.

To give Brahimi some muscle, Secretary of State Colin Powell needs to haul his butt up to the United Nations in New York and hammer out a resolution in the UN Security Council giving up U.S. control of Iraq in exchange for a UN mandate, and then get on his knees and beg France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and some others to send troops there. That's one option. The other option? Invade Fallujah, Karbala, Najaf and see what happens.


http://tompaine.com/blog.cfm/ID/10313

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1. of course Powell is not too happy

all the more reason to try.

http://truthout.org/docs_04/050704B.shtml

Powell Aides Go Public on Rift With Bush
By Gary Younge
The Guardian U.K.

Thursday 06 May 2004

Chief of staff says secretary of state is fed up with apologising for the administration and is disdainful of 'ideological' hawks.

Colin Powell's key aide has described US sanctions policy against countries such as Pakistan and Cuba as "the dumbest policy on the face of the Earth".

In an article in GQ magazine Larry Wilkerson, chief of staff of the United States secretary of state, bemoans Mr Powell's firefighting role in President George Bush's cabinet.

"He has spent as much time doing damage control and, shall we say, apologising around the world for some less-than-graceful actions as he has anything else."

The article, which includes an interview with Mr Powell, is most illuminating for the comments made by his close friends and colleagues who are explicit about his distrust and disdain for the hawks in the administration.

Mr Powell's deputy, Richard Armitage, remarks on his boss's anguish at the damage to his credibility following his speech to the United Nations last year making the case for war and insisting there were weapons of mass destruction. "It's a source of great distress for the secretary," he said.

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