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US Considers UN Command in Iraq [In Wake of Spanish Withdrawal]
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Mar 21, 2004 06:04pm |
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| Media | News Service - Associated Press |
| News Date | Friday, March 19, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | US Considers UN Command in Iraq [In Wake of Spanish Withdrawal]
The Honolulu Advertiser
U.S. officials are exploring ways to persuade Spain to keep its troops in Iraq, including the possibility of a separate United Nations command. It's not clear if the scenario would be acceptable to Spain. And Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said, "I wouldn't want to speculate on any potential U.N. resolution in the future." But U.S. leaders have made clear they think it might be possible to accommodate the concerns of Spanish Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, despite his insistence that Spanish troops will leave unless the United Nations takes charge in Iraq.
Spanish withdrawal would be a blow to Bush administration efforts to put an international face on a coalition overwhelmingly dominated by the 115,000 U.S. troops. There have been other signs of cracks in the coalition. Poland had threatened to leave early. South Korea's Defense Ministry said it would not send its troops to the area of Iraq that U.S. commanders had requested. If the United Nations does not take over the situation and there is not a rethinking of this chaotic occupation we are living through, in which there are more dead in the occupation than in the war phase, the Spanish troops are going to return to Spain," Zapatero said.
Rumsfeld, for his part, has strongly rejected the possibility that U.S. forces would be placed under a U.N. or NATO command insisting on a coalition force led by the United States. |
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