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| Your Time Is Running Out, US Warns UN |
| 2002-10-23 |
| Source: TheTelegraph (UK) America expressed growing impatience with the That's the whole idea... Hours after Russia dismissed America's latest compromise proposal as "unacceptable", Ari Fleischer, the White House spokesman, said: "It's coming down to the end. The United Nations does not have forever." When it comes to the end, the UN should end, too. It's an idea whose time has gone... Mr Fleischer said America was committed to working through the UN, but his comments were a veiled threat that Washington would act alone against Iraq if the UN did not take tough action to deal with Baghdad's weapons of mass destruction. America has substantially diluted its original proposals for UN weapons inspectors to be given sweeping new powers, and has backed away from seeking explicit authorisation for military action if Iraq fails to comply. President George W Bush sounded a more conciliatory note this week, saying Iraq could be disarmed peacefully. If Saddam Hussein complied with all UN resolutions, he said, "that in itself would signal that the regime has changed". But despite the concessions, America has yet to secure an agreement among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Yesterday, a senior Kremlin official was quoted as saying the new draft "insignificantly differs on the most crucial points from earlier US-British proposals which were unacceptable to Russia and other permanent members of the UN Security Council". The Bushies tried to be conciliatory — it got them nothing. Ignore them, move on, and let Kofi and Yasser get together to try and figure how to get us to call again. And the next time anybody needs our support, we can talk about it. For years... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |