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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector-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.
"Hat in Hand," on "Bended Knee" (Excerpt)
by William F. JasperAfter 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.
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-selected Prime Minister Allawi, but Iraq’s new president, its two deputy presidents, and its 33-member cabinet as well.
During the course of his remarks and responses to questions, President Bush repeatedly underscored the UN’s dominant role in determining the makeup of the new Iraqi government:
• "[UN envoy] Mr. Brahimi put together a government."
• "Mr. Brahimi made the decisions and brought their names to the Governing Council. As I understand it, the Governing Council simply opined about names. It was Mr. Brahimi’s selections and — Ambassador Bremer and Ambassador Blackwill were instructed by me to work with Mr. Brahimi."
• "Mr. Brahimi made the decision on [Iraqi National Congress head Ahmed] Chalabi, not the United States. Mr. Brahimi was the person that put together the group."
"Earlier today," said President Bush, "I spoke to Secretary General Kofi Annan. I congratulated him on the U.N.’s role in forming this new government." At virtually the same time that President Bush was making these remarks, Kofi Annan was conducting a press conference at the UN’s New York headquarters, where he heaped praise on Lakhdar Brahimi, whom he conspicuously referred to as "my own envoy."
Yes, one year after the administration launched the Iraq War in apparent defiance of the UN, and less than a month before the June 30 deadline for handing over control of Iraq to the Iraqis, it is the UN that is calling the shots — while the U.S. continues to pay in blood and treasure. The UN has handpicked the new Iraqi government. The UN will supervise Iraq’s national elections in 2005. The UN will administer billions of dollars in humanitarian and reconstruction aid, despite the fact that the UN’s administration of Iraq’s "Oil-for-Food" program under Saddam Hussein has been exposed as one of the biggest corruption scandals of all time.
"The United Nations, once snubbed and excluded from the task of shaping Iraq’s future, suddenly finds itself pressed to play the major role in that effort," wrote the New York Times’ Warren Hoge, in an April 18 dispatch from Baghdad. U.S. General Anthony Zinni, in an April 16 interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, characterized the Bush administration’s position as coming back to the UN "hat in hand," after having ridiculed the world body in the run-up to the war. Kofi Annan’s aide, Edward Mortimer, painted the U.S. humiliation even more dramatically in a New York Times interview, describing the Bush administration’s appeal for help as coming to the UN "on bended knee." Mr. Mortimer was obviously expressing the sense of vindication and satisfaction felt by his boss — and all one-worlders, for that matter — at seeing the United States, the world’s only superpower, prostrated before the UN globalists.
In reality, the Bush administration had never "snubbed" the UN, as the Times asserts and as so many people believe. President Bush and other administration officials had repeatedly stated that the purpose of the war was to disarm Saddam Hussein per United Nations Security Council resolutions. Their complaint with the UN was that it was not enforcing its own resolutions and that its resolutions should be enforced. The Bush administration’s policy to empower the UN is not new; what is new is that the policy is now much more transparent than it was at the beginning of the Iraq War. In fact, the war has greased the skids for UN empowerment.
One of the most stunning developments to come out of the Bush administration’s war on Iraq has been almost completely ignored by the media cartel. Incredibly, the Bush Defense and State Departments are jointly proposing to establish, with the apparent blessing of the White House, a 75,000-strong army of international "peacekeepers." Called the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI), this astonishing scheme calls for recruiting and training primarily Third World peacekeepers, to the tune of over $600 million over the next five years.
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