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To: KevinThompson who wrote (12490)	4/9/2003 9:12:51 AM
From: moufassa7	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13660

Stunning video from Baghdad. Marines in center of town. A bad day for Saddam lovin American hatin protestors.

To: KevinThompson who wrote (12490)	4/9/2003 11:20:55 AM
From: Frederick Langford	Respond to of 13660

Beautifully stated Kevin, folks think we need the UN to help pay for the reconstruction, but few realize UN gets their money to a large degree from American taxpayers. Either way, we will get the financial burden. We may as well get whatever spoils we can. France, Germany and Russia deserve to get as much as they put into this war... NOTHING Fred

To: KevinThompson who wrote (12490)	4/9/2003 11:25:58 AM
From: Frederick Langford	Respond to of 13660

Bush Sees Aid Role of U.N. as Limited in Rebuilding Iraq By RICHARD W. STEVENSON nytimes.com ILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland, April 8 — President Bush pledged today to grant the United Nations a "vital role" in postwar Iraq, but defined that principally as providing food, medicine and aid. His characterization of the postwar role for the United Nations, offered after talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, suggested that differences with European leaders over this question are likely to fester. France and Germany, among other countries, have sought a central role for the United Nations in overseeing the country and eventually establishing a new government. The leaders of those two nations and Russia will meet this weekend in St. Petersburg for talks on postwar Iraq. [Page B6.] Mr. Blair has promoted this view as he seeks to ease the trans-Atlantic friction between old allies that characterized the weeks leading to war. Speaking at a joint news conference this morning between meetings here, an assertive Mr. Bush was respectful of the United Nations, which he said could play "a vital role as an agent to help people live freely." But pressed as to what exactly he meant, the president said: "That means food. That means medicine. That means aid." He added, "That means being, you know, a party to the progress being made in Iraq." Mr. Blair tried to play down differences and focus on the work to be done in Iraq. "Let's all work together internationally — the coalition forces, the international community together — to do what we really should be doing," he said, "which is making sure that the will of the Iraqi people is properly expressed in institutions that in the end they own, not any outside power or authority." Having obtained no significant concession from Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair could do little more than appeal to the Security Council not to get into another fight over the future of Iraq. France and Russia, veto-holding members of the Council, led the diplomatic opposition to the American-led attack on Iraq. Both leaders struck one central theme: that Iraqis should run Iraq. Mr. Bush made clear that both an interim authority for the country and a subsequent representative government should reflect their will. The United Nations could contribute to that process, the president said, while making clear that its role would be no more than auxiliary. In a joint statement, Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair said the interim authority would be "established first and foremost by the Iraqi people, with the help of the members of the coalition, and working with the secretary general of the United Nations." The statement said they would seek United Nations resolutions "that would affirm Iraq's territorial integrity, ensure rapid delivery of humanitarian relief and endorse an appropriate post-conflict administration for Iraq." The president said he did not know whether Saddam Hussein had been killed by an attack on a residential complex in Baghdad on Monday, but that if he is still alive, his grasp "around the throats of the Iraqi people" is loosening. "I can't tell you if all 10 fingers are off the throat, but finger by finger, it's coming off," Mr. Bush said. Discussing signs that the Iraqi people were welcoming the allied forces, Mr. Bush appeared to criticize the decision of his father's administration to encourage a popular uprising against Mr. Hussein after the Persian Gulf war in 1991 but then not to follow through with sustained support. "These are people in the south of Iraq that had been betrayed, tortured, had been told they were going to be free, took a risk in the past and then were absolutely hammered by the Iraqi regime," Mr. Bush said. "They were skeptical, they were cynical, they were doubtful. Now they believe, they're beginning to understand we're real and true." The meeting between the two leaders, held in a castle in this village south of Belfast, was their third in three weeks. In addition to allowing them to plan for what comes after the war, it provided a forum for Mr. Bush to throw his weight behind Mr. Blair's efforts to bring Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland into a power-sharing arrangement intended to end their long-running sectarian strife. Continued