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U.N. Offers to Bolster Presence in Baghdad
Washington Post ^
| August 7, 2007; 4:54 PM
| Colum Lynch
Posted on 08/07/2007 2:58:36 PM PDT by do the dhue
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 7 -- The United Nations has offered to bolster its presence in Baghdad for the first time in more than three years, laying the groundwork for a more ambitious role in mediating the country's sectarian disputes.
The move comes three weeks after President Bush delivered his second personal appeal to Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to help resolve some of Iraq's intractable religious and ethnic conflicts. The top U.N. political adviser, B. Lynn Pascoe, told the Security Council Tuesday that the United Nations would be prepared to increase the size of its mission in Baghdad by nearly 50 percent, raising the ceiling from 65 to as many as 95 international staffers in the coming months.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; bolster; geopolitics; presence; un
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No thanks to the Demorats. They would have pulled out by now.
To: do the dhue
No. We don’t need more enemies there.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:00:38 PM PDT
by
pissant
(Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
To: do the dhue
The last time that happened, the UN thieves looted Iraq for $$$. They are parasites.
3
posted on
08/07/2007 3:00:43 PM PDT
by
Renfield
(How come there aren't any football teams with pink uniforms?)
To: do the dhue
The UN must have heard of all the money gone missing and want their share.
4
posted on
08/07/2007 3:00:46 PM PDT
by
txroadhawg
("To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors." Ronald Reagan)
To: do the dhue
Now that things seem to be going in the right direction the last thing in the world we need in Iraq is the presence of the f-ing U.N.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:01:34 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: do the dhue
Ohhhhh, zee Americans have won the war. Now we can safely come in and rape the women and plunder the country. Woo!
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:02:29 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
(Texas is no place for pansy-ass liberals. Ya'll move back to California er Mexico er somethin')
To: Joe Boucher
all true. I almost wish we would keep telling the world Iraq is going to hell in a hand basket, just to keep the UN out.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:03:08 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SEP 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
To: txroadhawg
Since they lost out on the oil for food program, you know they got to find a way to replenish that income.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:03:56 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SEP 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
To: do the dhue
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:06:56 PM PDT
by
jedward
(Mission '08 - Take back the House & Senate. No Negotiations...No Prisoners.)
To: do the dhue
So they can go dig up the rest of the OFF money?
10
posted on
08/07/2007 3:08:53 PM PDT
by
xcamel
("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
To: do the dhue
Wow, the UN presence may increase to 95 people total! that will solve everything.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:09:21 PM PDT
by
Williams
To: Williams
Those 95 people are to help with civil strife. They will probably be a gun free zone too.
How would you like to take that job?
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:11:21 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SEP 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
To: do the dhue
Thye may be worthless but it will leave the surrendercrats with some ‘splaining to do. “Why are you saying we should abandon Iraq while the U.N. is there?”
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:11:58 PM PDT
by
Dilbert56
(Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
To: Dilbert56
Yea, this has to be bad news for the rats.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:12:32 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SEP 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
To: do the dhue
Is the UN a criminal organization?
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:12:41 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: do the dhue
I give ‘em two minutes in downtown Baghdad — they’ll surrender.
To: do the dhue
That’s a sure sign things have taken a positive turn in Iraq, they wouldn’t go in if they thought they would get their butts shot off.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:17:39 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
To: shield
yes, they should be banned by all Nations.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:20:25 PM PDT
by
do the dhue
(Don't let Jihad Jane do what Hanoi Jane did!!!! SEP 15, 07 Gathering of EAGLES DC)
To: do the dhue
Every little piss ant country has the same pull as does the U.S. or say Japan in the U.N.
So say the economic and political powerhouse of Madagascar is equal to the U.S.?
Get real man.
What a crock of b.s.
Disband the socialist U.N. and get it the hell out of the U.S.
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posted on
08/07/2007 3:21:08 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: do the dhue
Whoop de frickin do.
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