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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (454983)	9/8/2003 11:16:52 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Your belief that it is a non sequiter is indication of your denial. To the contrary, the question is very relevant to your statements. ~SB~

To: Doug R who wrote (454983)	9/8/2003 11:18:42 PM
From: Vitas	Respond to of 769670

Arab League Admits Iraq Council to Cairo Meeting 2 hours, 52 minutes ago Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Andrew Cawthorne and Caroline Drees BAGHDAD/CAIRO (Reuters) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.S.-appointed Governing Council scored a major diplomatic coup Tuesday when Arab League foreign ministers agreed a council delegate could represent Baghdad at their talks in Cairo this week. The move could set an important precedent in determining whether the council will be allowed to fill Iraq's seat at future league meetings, and in other bodies such as the United Nations (news - web sites) and OPEC (news - web sites). U.N. chief Kofi Annan (news - web sites), meanwhile, launched a diplomatic drive on Monday to bridge differences between Washington and its critics over the future of American-occupied Iraq. The secretary-general called a meeting of foreign ministers of the five permanent, veto-holding members of the Security Council for Geneva Saturday to seek a compromise on a U.S. call for international support to help it increase security and speed up reconstruction in Iraq. President Bush (news - web sites) warned Americans in a televised speech Sunday of a tough struggle ahead before peace and security were achieved in Iraq. Underlining the dangers and problems, two U.S. soldiers were wounded Monday when their convoy struck an explosive device on a Baghdad bridge. In Cairo, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told reporters after several hours of debate between the Arab League ministers: "There was an Arab consensus in this meeting to invite the Governing Council in Iraq to attend this session as a member." The ministers reached the decision after several hours of debate, lasting until well past midnight. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari, a Kurd newly appointed by the Council, will now attend the Arab ministerial meetings, due to be held Tuesday and Wednesday. Arab states had been wary of fully endorsing the Governing Council for fear of legitimizing the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Washington is seeking 15,000 more troops from other nations and reconstruction funds to back its own commitment of 130,000 troops and billions of dollars in Iraq. Britain, the closest U.S. ally in its March invasion of Iraq, said it was sending an extra 1,200 troops to bring its forces there to over 12,000. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon said late Monday Britain was likely to send another 1,000 soldiers in addition to the ones announced earlier. CRITICS WANT BIGGER U.N. ROLE Critics of the United States, including France and Russia, who opposed the war on Iraq, want a greater role for the world body than Washington envisages. France and Russia, like the United States, Britain and China, have veto power as permanent members of the Security Council. But Monday France offered Washington a ray of hope by saying Bush's speech, in which he urged the international community to settle its differences over Iraq, offered prospects for an agreement. At U.N. headquarters in New York, Annan told a news conference he would be willing to consider a U.N. "political facilitating process" to help devise a constitution and plan elections in Iraq. Hours earlier, Bush told Americans in a television address that further time and sacrifice were needed in Iraq to beat the "enemies of freedom" in what he termed the "central front" of the U.S.-led war on terror that followed the September 11, 2001, attacks on U.S. cities. He asked Congress for $87 billion for military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan (news - web sites). In Baghdad Monday, Iraq's U.S. governor Paul Bremer said $20 billion of the money Bush had mentioned was earmarked for reconstruction in Iraq. "It is a dramatic illustration of the fact that the American people are going to finish the job we started when we liberated Iraq," he said. story.news.yahoo.com