"We hope tomorrow the U.N. will do its job. If not, all of us need to step back and try to figure out how to make the U.N. work better, as we head into the 21st century."

Maybe the U.N. could make amends, he said; by helping rebuild Iraq after Saddam is gone. Bush waffled on his recent promise to put the second resolution to a vote at the U.N. whether or not it was doomed to fail. "France showed their cards" by pledging to veto any resolution that contained a war-making ultimatum, he said. U.S. officials said the three leaders were unlikely to seek a vote if it was likely to fail, because rejection would undermine their argument that war without U.N. authority was legal. In Washington, Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) underscored Bush's frustration with Paris by saying; "It's difficult to take the French serious." He rejected a proposal by French President Jacques Chirac to impose a 30-day deadline for Iraq to disarm. Two thousand miles away, Bush was asked whether the diplomatic window would be closed Monday. "That's what I'm saying," he replied. One senior U.S. official said that in his remarks, Bush did not intend to rule out a possible compromise that would briefly extend a March 17 deadline written into the resolution that has stalled at the U.N. This official added, though, that any new resolution must be backed by a threat of force, something France has opposed.



In this article were used facts from newest intelligences from all over the world.
Created and written in Kosice on March 17, 2003 by
Tino (author is a Slovakian student).