February 11, 2003

Iraq Won't Accept French and German Plan for UN Peacekeepers

Iraq won't accept the presence of United Nations peacekeepers under a plan by Germany and France to disarm the country of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told Al Hayat.
"No Iraqi would accept the deployment of such a force,'' Sabri told the newspaper. "We haven't been informed of that proposal. Such a presentation would increase the logic of war and aggression.''

Isn't that what people like Rumsfeld have been saying?
I find this naysaying on the part of Iraq to be not only funny, but wise also.
You would have thought that someone on Team Weasel would have run this by Saddam before they PO'd Rumsfeld and Bush and trashed the Froggie-Kraut presence in the UN, NATO and the EU with their unilateral anti-U.S. policy statements and obstructionism...
For once, I am grateful to Baghdad: they may have saved us all from some pointless arguing in the UN, that Mecca of pointless arguing.