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To: GST who wrote (118094)	10/30/2003 3:04:06 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

GST, you remain wedded to the idea that more UN involvement would a) help us b) add international "legitimacy" to the rebuilding of Iraq. a) is hard to see when the UN already got bombed (having kept their Baathist security guards), and responded by running away. If I was a terrorist, I would be saying, "What a great target! Come back, so we can do it again!" As for b), while the UN may have "legitimacy" in the Democratic salons of New York and the halls of vareious Eurocrats in Paris and Brussels, there is not a single Iraqi who gives a goddamn. Most Iraqis connect the UN with the massively corrupt food-for-oil program and hate their guts. Those Iraqis who want the Americans to succeed would rather have the US as they won't run away so easily. Those Iraqis who want the Americans to fail would be glad to have the UN because it's a softer target. Surely you have seen that the terrorists do not distinguish in any way between the "legitimacy" of US, vs UN or IIRC targets - they bomb any and all of them with complete impartiality?