The U.N. vs. Iraq. Kofi Annan treats Allawi's government worse than he treated Saddam's
Babbin, Jeb
Kofi Annan treats Allawi's government worse than he treated Sadda If the U.N. worked as hard to impose its will on Iraq in 2002 as it is trying today, America might not have had to go to war. In...
...But by choosing to ignore those resolutions and demand that diplomacy continue endlessly, the U.N...
...Now it is trying to regain its relevance by creating an atmosphere in which the Iraqi people will be denied the legitimacy of their coming elections...
...The Coalition notions, meaning the US., Britain, Australia, and Poland guarantee that a separate security force would be Wished to protect the U.N...
...Defense, State, and Treasury Department officials in September—would increase its government's assistance to the insurgents...
...Waging an illegal war is the most serious violation of the UN...
...Having chosen to leave Saddam undisturbed dispute more than a dozen "compulsory" resolutions, the U.N...
...Charter, Security Council resolutions have the force of international law and are supposed to be binding on all U.N...
...President Bush repeatedly asked the Security Council to enforce its resolutions...
...Annan's timing was no coincidence...
...election neared, he was casting a vote for John Kerry and implying that all the peace-loving nations of the world were doing the same...
...is prejudging the January 2005 Iraqi elections a failure so that those who opposed Saddam's overthrow—France, Germany, and Russia chief among them—will be able to reject the new government as just another puppet of the United States...
...Its resolution was made in terms that benefited the U.N...
...Syria—which was given a blunt warning to cease its interference by a high-level delegation of U.S...
...It is as BY JED BABBIN 14 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 2004 JED BABBIN feckless as its predecessor—the League of Nations—which dissolved because it became nothing more than a debating society that prized talk over freedom...
...Congressional opponents of the war were quick to seize on Annan's statement, drawing a comment from Defense Secretary Rumsfeld in defense of Allawi...
...Charter, any nation that wages an illegal war is subject to sanctions, including military action against it...
...First, Annan said, "From our point of view, and the [UN.] charter point of view, [the Iraq war] was illegal...
...Resolution 1546 said that the U.N...
...The more the U.N...
...Arguing for Iraqi freedom to conduct elections and accept the results of them, interim Prime Earth to Jimmy Carter: the U.N...
...As the US...
...Annan intended no sanctions against the U.S...
...If the Annan-Carter-Kerry bandwagon succeeds in trampling the election results to any significant degree, the newly elected government will not be formally recognized by many nations...
...Secretary General and administration officials themselves say the elections are in grave doubt...
...for governing Iraq while refraining from taking any actions affecting Iraq's destiny beyond the limited interim period until an elected Transnational Government of Iraq assumes office...
...John Kerry says he is determined that Iraq will be free...
...But under what terms...
...Jed Babbin is the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think (Regnery Publishing...
...The October offenses against the insurgents in Fallujah and elsewhere were one good way to help the Iraqis toward the free and fair elections we have promised...
...policy in Iraq from the outset, seeking to assert U.N...
...more than Iraq...
...In 1864, only 4 million voted in Abraham Lincoln's second presidential election, and only about 55 percent of that minority chose Lincoln...
...Earth to Jimmy Carter: the U.N...
...You know, we just finished, the Carter Center did, our 52nd election...
...control over U.S...
...The danger to Iraq—and to America's war on terror—lies in the degree to which their success diminishes the new Iraqi government's standing in the world...
...Now that the removal of Saddam is accomplished, the U.N...
...is unforgiving: not of him, but of those who are risking their lives to replace his regime with democracy...
...would attempt:to help Iraq set up its elections, but the results e bound to be questionable...
...members...
...If Mr...
...Just a few days after Annan's statement, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry also jumped on the U.N...
...Bush, but also to place the U.N...
...The usual suspects, including that self-appointed international overseer of elections, Jimmy Carter, were quick to board Annan's bandwagon...
...In the same state ment, Annan said that the UN...
...and its secretary general, the U.N.'s power and influence are diminished...
...Bush a despotic aggressor...
...But in every case there has to be a central government that can set up the constitution and bylaws and rules so that an election can be held peacefully...
...I don't see that happening as long as the terrible violence continues in Iraq...
...Bush wins, and the elections—however imperfect—are held, America will be the first to recognize the new government...
...already made sure that Iraq wouldn't have a constitution before the elections...
...to act or become irrelevant, it chose the latter...
...A free and fair election in Iraq, and the diminution of the U.N.'s power and influence, will both be significant victories for us, and every other nation that still cherishes the idea of freedom...
...Under Articles 39-45 and 51-52 of the U.N...
...They will, in some measure, succeed...
...approval is as deep as Jimmy Carter's...
...has less than 25 percent of the staff it needs in Iraq to get the job done...
...cannot forgive George W. Bush and the Iraqi people for trading its Oil-for-Food-for-Bribes program for the destruction of a terrorist regime and the freedom of Iraq...
...TAST JUNE, as the Coalition nations prepared to return Iraqi sovereignty to a new interim gov- 4ernment, the U.N...
...He said, "Yet today, 16 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 2004 just four months before Iraqis are supposed to go to the polls, the U.N...
...in control of the coming Iraqi election...
...Annan's statement, if taken seriously, would have enormous legal and diplomatic consequences for the United States...
...In short, the interim government couldn't make alliances, draft a constitution, or do anything that would strengthen the hand of the government to be elected later...
...To the extent that any nation—especially the United States—acts without deference to the U.N...
...Other nations will gradually follow suit and the new Iraqi government will be on its way to establishing itself as a responsible member of the community of nations...
...As our presidential election drew nearer, the insurgents learned that their ability to disrupt the election may be inversely proportional to our—and the Allawi government's—ability to hunt them down and kill them before they can...
...With encouragement from the Annan-CarterKerry chorus, the Iraq insurgents—and their supporters in Iran and Syria—will do their best to disrupt the elections...
...Charter a member can commit...
...When President Bush challenged the U.N...
...Because the security situation is so bad...
...Those nations that don't recognize it will not negotiate treaties with the new government...
...After, the future of Iraq will be decided not by Iraqis, but by Iran, Syria, France, Russia, and the rest of the U.N...
...Fortunately, the Allawi government recognized that its neighbors mean it harm, not help, and declined this invitation...
...is still objet cinsecurity caused by the insurgency, and de i g to d' patch the promised election organizers in fficient numbers to provide real, help...
...IRAQ "credible elections if the security conditions continue as they are now...
...bandwagon...
...The insurgents and their allies have watched the calendar closely...
...and because not a single country has offered troops to protect the U.N...
...It "invited" Iraq to consider convening an "international meeting" to support the coming elections...
...President Bush is doing more to increase the military pressure on them, and freeing parts of Iraq from their control...
...In saying that, Annan incited the insurgents to violence, giving them an enormous incentive to interfere with the elections...
...Security Council diplomatically "welcomed" the new transitional government by imposing burdens on Iraq designed to slow its progress toward establishing a stable and free government...
...In that statement, Annan branded America a rogue nation, and stopped just short of declaring Mr...
...forfeited its own authority over the matter...
...The Resolution was passed at a price...
...In those areas where Moqtada al- Sadr and his insurgents remain strong, there will be calls for a partitioning of Iraq, and recognition of JED BABBIN Every day...
...A letter from Secretary of State Colin gave that guarantee, but the UN...
...The 9 million Southerners—about 3.5 million of them slaves—didn't vote in that election...
...ar Ene Jo David Eogberg Jeremy Lott and many more...
...protection force...
...Kerry's desire for U.N...
...began trying to reassert its influence...
...When President Bush decided to act when the U.N...
...All of our elections have been in troubled countries where the outcome was doubtful," Carter said...
...And if you look at the statistics on deaths or wounded and so forth in the last three or four months—instead of getting better and more peaceful, apparently the situation's getting worse...
...elections mission...
...Annan has opposed U.S...
...herd...
...In the south and east of Iraq, Iran would build the influence of its proxies, such as al- Sadr...
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...Resolution 1546 then attempted to undermine the elections in very direct terms...
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...The debate has become le between interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Alla ' and President Bush on one side, and Kofi Annan and the European Union on the other...
...Security Council members who did their best to thwart any action against Saddam's regime will not let George Bush forget that he took action without their permission...
...An imperfect election, insisted Rumsfeld, is far better than none at all...
...If the new government is told that it cannot be recognized because some of the territory it claims is beyond its writ, the message will again reinforce the insurgency...
...to tell the Union that Lincoln's election was illegal, or that the Lincoln government couldn't speak for the entire nation, even those still held as slaves...
...endorses the formation of a sovereign Interim Government of Iraq...
...Allawi—protected by two SEAL platoons—is said to be the target of about six assassination plots every week...
...See what d nsight from Neumayr gequote by the who's who in Washington...
...The U.N...
...wouldn't, Annan took it personally...
...He said there could not be NOVEMBER 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 15 THE U.N...
...Kerry apparently believes that if we don't ensure that the U.N...
...Such an international meeting would, of course, invite Iraq's helpful neighbors—such as Syria and Iran—into the process to assert their own influence...
...They will have every excuse to refuse the commercial trade the new country so badly needs...
...Under the U.N...
...THERE IS, AT LEAST, ONE NOTABLE example of a successful election that was held with fewer than 50 percent being able to vote...
...We will sign treaties of mutual defense and trade with the new Iraqi government, and the U.N.—as it should—will sink further into its own diplomatic quagmire...
...bandwagon succeeds in discounting the Iraqi government, the more likely will be civil war and the breakup of Iraq into smaller nations their neighbors will find easy prey...
...Mr...
...It was in a nation of almost 14 million called America...
...If George W Bush loses in November, it is more than likely that the lame-duck president will press forward regardless, and that the elections will be held in however much of Iraq our armed force can secure...
...His aim was not only to defeat Mr...
...actions...
...Minister Ayad Allawi told the BBC, "If, for any reason, 300,000 people cannot vote because terrorists decide so—and this is imposing a very big if—then frankly 300,000 people is not going to alter 25 million people voting...
...Were Iraq partitioned Kurdistan would destabilize Turkey, which fears that the Kurds would expand their territorial demands into Turkey's northwest...
...is satisfied with the Iraq election, we won't have taken "the steps necessary to hold credible elections next year...
...Resolution 1546, passed on June 8, 2004, the U.N...
...In one of those inversions of reason that only the U.N...
...already made sure that Iraq wouldn't have a constitution before the elections...
...The President should recruit troops from our friends and allies for a U.N...
...which will assume full responsibility and authority...
...approval more important than the votes of free Iraqis, many of whom will risk their lives to vote...
...Rumsfeld is worried...
...staff helping organize ions...
...The, doing its best to make sure that the electedgovernment will not be recognized as mate aim tip Jan uary 2005 elections...
...Fortunately, there was no U.N...
...separate states...
...In mid-September, a simmering Annan made a remarkable statement aimed at both President Bush and Prime Minister Allawi...
...can manage, it is now at war with free Iraq in a way it never was with Saddam's bloody despotism...
...The U.N...
...But they both ignore history, and seek to make U.N...
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