[CLUE-Talk] More reasons why the War is about greed / oil / capitalism

[Jeffery Cann]

On Thursday 03 April 2003 09:43 am, Randy Arabie wrote:
> > Me too.  Too bad it won't happen.  It's clear the Colin Powell no longer
> > yields any influence.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/02/international/worldspecial/03POLICY.html?
>pagewanted=1&ei=5062&en=ab27d00db3934eb9&ex=1049950800&partner=GOOGLE
>
> <Quote>
>
> Bush Is Said to Accept a U.N. Role in Postwar Iraq
> By BRIAN KNOWLTON,
> International Herald Tribune
>
>
> WASHINGTON, April 2 . The Australian foreign minister said in remarks
> broadcast today that President Bush and other top White House officials
> seemed disposed in meetings on Tuesday to having a special United
> Nations representative working in a postwar Iraq alongside an
> American-supported interim administration.
>
> The foreign minister, Alexander Downer, told reporters that an argument
> within the Bush administration over the stewardship of a postwar Iraq
> appeared to have been "won by those who believe there should be a role
> for the U.N."
>
> </Quote>

Back at you - from the Washington Post

"Yet a secretive Pentagon-led group is already far advanced in plans to 
unilaterally install a postwar regime dominated by Americans and Iraqi exiles 
-- one that would effectively exclude not only the United Nations but also 
European and Middle Eastern allies whose support will be essential to 
stabilizing the country. Even the State Department's nominees would be shut 
out by Defense Department leaders who talk of leaping from military rule to 
an interim Iraqi government in 90 days with the help of the American 
officials who would run Iraqi ministries."

 + http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16138-2003Apr2.html



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