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Us abandoned idea united nations role Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030814-084746-4915r.htm http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030814-084746-4915r.htm U.S. bails on United Nations' Iraq role WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The Bush administration has abandoned the idea of giving the United Nations more of a role in Iraq, a report said Thursday. Despite suggestions from France, India and other countries to use U.N. channels, the United States would like to widen its own effort to enlist other countries to assist the occupation forces in Iraq, which are dominated by the 139,000 United States troops there. In addition to U.S. forces in Iraq, there are 21,000 troops representing 18 countries. At present, 11,000 of them are from Britain, the New York Times said. "The administration is not willing to confront going to the Security Council and saying, 'We really need to make Iraq an international operation,'" said an administration official. "You can make a case that it would be better to do that, but right now the situation in Iraq is not that dire." All site contents copyright © 2003 News World Communications, Inc.

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