Sources close to the White House say that President Bush will today announce a new project for a U.N. resolution on Iraq that will endorse the sovereignty of Iraq's new government and provide for U.S.-led international forces to maintain security in the country.
Discussions on the resolution are at an “advanced stage,” the British Foreign Office said.
Since the US went ahead invading Iraq despite the lack of backing from the United Nations, many deduced that UN backing was no longer considered of any importance by the President, but Peter Steiner political strategist and foreign policy adviser to President Bush told BIGfib that anyone who is surprised is, “Missing the point.”
“To say that the President doesn’t care about the UN would be just as ridiculous as saying that he considers the UN important,” he told BIGfib.
“I think the government has serious doubts as to whether they can gain UN approval for anything to do with Iraq, but the general feeling is that it’s worth a shot… Of course if the motion is turned down then he will just go ahead anyway. I suppose you could say that he thinks the UN is important as long as it agrees with him.”
