STORM2K

Kerry said "We should turn over control of Iraq to the UN and have a UN led coalition of nations in charge of the organization of the new govm't. (not his exact words, but close enough).

I understood him to say that he would involve the UN but keep our soldiers there for security and to help the Iraquis trust the actions of the UN more due to our presence. I didn't hear him say to turn it all over to the UN.

sunnyday wrote:I understood him to say that he would involve the UN but keep our soldiers there for security and to help the Iraquis trust the actions of the UN more due to our presence. I didn't hear him say to turn it all over to the UN.

You may be right. I was trying to watch it while eating and talking to my son. I'll try to see if it's on Fox's site and see if I can find his quote.

NEW YORK — A day after President Bush reassured Americans that he was following the right path to stabilizing and rebuilding Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (search) said Wednesday "there's a smarter way to accomplish this mission" as he called for sharing authority in Iraq with the United Nations (search).

Kerry said a full U.N. partnership would relieve the burden on U.S. soldiers, relieve the cost on American taxpayers, and maximize the ability of the mission to succeed.

"We shouldn't only be tough, we have to be smart. And there's a smarter way to accomplish this mission than this president is pursuing," Kerry told reporters. He said the military is overextended and bearing the majority of the risk in Iraq. "It doesn't have to be that way. It never had to be that way."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,117067,00.html

Pardon my ignorance, but didn't we try going thru the UN??? (time and time again, SH broke the resolutions.) And didn't Bush have authority from the UN to go to war with Iraq since one of the conditions of the resolutions was either adhere or face possible force?

We tried to go through the UN, but we never had the authority from the UN to go in ourselves.

actually, kerry is admitting bush is right. the problem is kerry is only saying it to get elected.
the un wants kerry elected so they can get there hands on this money, like they stole the oil for food money.

Iraq's postwar oil exports exceed $7.5 billion

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UNITED NATIONS, April 13 (Reuters) - Baghdad has exported more than $7.5 billion in crude oil since last year's invasion of Iraq, the U.S.-led authority governing Iraq said on Tuesday.

The Coalition Provisional Authority had deposited a total of $7.54 billion in its Development Fund for Iraq as of last Thursday, it said in an Internet posting.

Of the total, $276 million was put in the fund during the week ending last Thursday, compared to $342 million the previous week, according to the provisional authority's Web site (http://www.iraqcoalition.org/budget/DFI_intro1.html), which is updated weekly.

The provisional authority provides no other public data on sales of Iraqi oil, such as volume or price information or the reasons for weekly fluctuations in deposits into the fund.

Under a May 2003 U.N. Security Council resolution, the Coalition Provisional Authority is required to deposit all the proceeds of Iraqi oil exports into the fund. The resolution was intended to ensure Iraq's secretive U.S.-led civil administration was not engaged in any dubious practices in marketing Iraq's oil and using the money for reconstruction.