Could we get the UN to take over in Iraq?

[Hippo_Tron]

We all know that the current US strategy in Iraq (or there lack of) isn't working. Training the Iraqi security forces keeps getting delayed and delayed and delayed which means that Bush refuses to set a date in which he will start withdrawing troops.

The problem is that the troops being in Iraq is what is causing the insurgency. They are hostile to having American tanks and American guns in the streets of their cities. To quote our idiot in chief "They don't like that they're occupied". The big question is, if we pulled out, would the insurgents try to overthrow the government? Bush obviously seems to think so, and on that point I agree. Although, Bush would have us believe that they want to overthrow the government because they hate freedom and democracy. I'll agree that they hate freedom and democracy but I don't think that, that's why they want to overthrow the government; they want to overthrow it because it is a Bush puppet regime and everybody knows it.

Obviously it isn't a good thing if Al-Zarqawi violently overthrows the government and installs another dictator (although that would certainly make America realize how stupid Bush is and how pointless this war is), but is preserving "democracy" worth the thousands of American and Iraqi lives that have and will continue to die for it?

My question is, could we pull our troops out of Iraq and ask the UN to come in and take over the security role and the oversight of the creation of their government. Will the insurgents be less hostile to UN peacekeeping forces than to US troops? Will they be less likely to overthrow the government if the UN is overseeing its creation so that they know that it is not a Bush puppet regime?

And I guess more importantly, would the UN even be willing to takeover this quagmire that we have created?

[ktowntennesseedem]

1. Yeah, I'm sure Bolton will talk them into it.

They have such respect for him and all.

[Hippo_Tron]

2. It's all hypothetical considering that this will never happen under *

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Too late. The UN wants nothing to do with that mess.

[patricia92243]

4. We have tried to get them to take over - in Bush's horrible, untactful

way - and they said no.

We ignored and belittled them and then had to go whining to them for help - and of course it didn't work.

That is why Bush wants to put Bolton in there - to get revenge - in other words - typical George. Repulsive man.

[dutchdemocrat]

5. The rest of the world

America is like a big, drunk 15 year old kid, bullying his way around the schoolyard and creating mayhem. Now that he has puked all over himself, and hammered on many, making enemies from friends, one should hardly expect a group hug followed by a warm bath drawn so he can freshen up while the rest of the world cleans up the mess in a crossfire.

It will never happen.

[MuseRider]

7. Well put. n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. If we asked, the UN would laugh

remember that Bushco hasn't treated the UN all that well, what with going in unilaterally and not allowing UN weapons inspectors to finish their job, etc. etc. No, I fear we are stuck in Iraq until we retreat-and then I fear chaos will erupt.