Tuesday, October 14, 2003
It's Official...
...The Bush administration has lost in Iraq.0 comments
As reported in The New York Times, this is the type of butchered diplomacy the administration excels in:
In the newly amended draft resolution circulated at the Security Council, the administration also proposed that the United Nations recognize the Iraqi Governing Council [appointed by the U.S.] as a unit that "will embody the sovereignty" of Iraq during the time that the nation returns to self-rule.
It was not clear what the term "embody" meant, but an administration official said it did not mean that the Governing Council would actually exercise control over Iraq's affairs. As a result, the change came across to many at the United Nations as more linguistic than substantive.
France has demanded that the Governing Council be vested with authority as the legitimate government of Iraq, and that the United Nations be given a central authority over the Iraqi occupation, steps endorsed by Secretary General Kofi Annan more than a week ago.
It's clear that the members of the UN see right through all of the torturerd machinations pouring out of the White House. And they will not be moved or impressed. How many ways can we say the same thing repeatedly, with childlike hope that this will be the time the UN gives us what we want: their money and our control.
Other than being duped by their masters, the American people have had little to do (other than not stopping it, of course) wtih the madness that keeps spewing out of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Since things have been botched in such a high-handed way, people are saying now that they are embarrassed to be American (the Dixie Chicks just said they were embarrassed to be Texan). That these incompetants do not speak for America. That they are ashamed to be an American.
This mob of racketeers in the White House has taken away our money, taken away our jobs and our dignity, stolen our hopes, taken away our rights, embarrassed us as a people before the world community, robbed us of the touchpoints of right and wrong, taught our children that lying is the right thing to do, and killed our young in vainglorious efforts in foreign lands; plus they have heightened the very risk they were supposed to be vigoriously defending us against.
And all they have given back to us is shame.
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posted by Gotham 12:04 AM
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