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"Hat in hand," on "bended knee": after supposedly breaking with the UN over the Iraq War, the Bush administration has not only come to the UN as supplicant but is pushing for a UN standing army.(Arming The UN)(Cover Story)
It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying, "We need you to come back."
--Edward Mortimer, a senior aide to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
"Today in Baghdad," President George Bush told reporters at a June 1 Rose Garden press briefing, "U.N. Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, and Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, announced the members of Iraq's new interim government." In fact, Mr. Allawi had been picked as interim prime minister by the U.S.-installed Governing Council from a short list presented to them by UN envoy Brahimi. Mr. Brahimi not only pre-seleeted Prime ...
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