Withdraw the troops now by placing Iraq under UN Mandate

[IndianaGreen]

What we need is to get the Security Council to vote on a resolution putting Iraq under a UN Mandate, as it was done when the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina was established in 1995. The UN Mandate will put Iraq under UN governance and security, until such time as Iraq is ready to elect a government.

The US would withdraw its troops immediately upon the UN administration being installed in Baghdad, and international peacekeepers from neutral countries assume security duties.

End of the war. No more casualties!

Troops will be home NLT Thanksgiving!

UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina

On December 21, 1995, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1035, setting up the UN International Police Task Force and a UN Civil Affairs Office. These were brought together as the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The UN Mission (UNMIBH) was created to help implement the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (also referred to as the as the Dayton-Paris Agreement). It was "under the authority of the Secretary-General and subject to coordination and guidance as appropriate" of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina appointed to oversee the Agreement’s implementation.

On December 31, 2002, the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina completed its mandate. The European Union Police Mission (EUPM) assumed international police monitoring duties in Bosnia and Herzegovina on January 1, 2003.

The International Police Task Force has reformed and restructured local police personnel and organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, reducing the bloated local police forces from over 40,000 personnel in 1996 to approximately 20,000 today. Through this process, the UN has also de-certified officers who were without proper training or education and those who participated in war crimes or other violations of the law. In addition, the UN worked to improve recruitment of officers from minority groups within the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska and mentored local police in leadership positions.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/16291.htm

[LynneSin]

1. Can you sign me up for this team!!

It's the only way we can get our troops out of Iraq and help bring this country back to normalcy.

Best idea I've heard all day!!

[Cheswick2.0]

2. I agree

great idea, and the best part is after everything, the BFEE doesn't get to profit any further or control the oil.

[IndianaGreen]

3. That's why Bush will oppose this

He went to war for the oil, and nothing else but the oil!

A UN Administration would invalidate all contracts issued to American companies.

The new Iraqi government is also unlikely to reward Bush's corporate friends.

And we both know that Ahmed Chalabi has no popular following in Iraq.

[JVS]

4. Sounds good to me

Do you think the UN would go for it?

[snippy]

5. Democrats should start pushing for this.

It is the right thing to do and our troops deserve to come home. Politically, it would help with a lot of independent voters and military families and supporters. Plus, it would be hilarious to hear Bush try to explain why this is a bad idea.

[IndianaGreen]

6. Democrats should do this. but will they succumb to the penis complex?

Penis is for sex, not for foreign policy!

How many times did we hear words such as "peace with honor", or "loss of face", or "keep our commitments", or "support out troops" as the rationale for not withdrawing the troops and escalating the war, and the casualties?

[IndianaGreen]

7. In light of the 4 dead and 6 wounded GIs today

we need to discuss how to make the Democratic candidates for President press harder to get the UN to take over the administration of Iraq.