IT'LL BE FUN TO WATCH ALL THE NEOCONS WHO WENT WET CRAWL BACK TO THE FOLD:

UN vote on Iraq gives Bush win (Wayne Washington and Anne Barnard, June 9, 2004, Boston Globe)

The UN Security Council yesterday unanimously passed a resolution endorsing a "sovereign interim government" in Iraq and a continued US military presence in the country, giving President Bush a major diplomatic victory as he welcomed world leaders to the G-8 summit off the Georgia coast.

The resolution, which passed 15 to 0 after going through several revisions, endorses the transfer of power from the occupation authority to the recently appointed interim Iraqi government, which will administer the country until elections are held by the end of January 2005.

Bush called the vote "a great victory for the Iraqi people."

At Sea Island, Ga., site of the G-8 summit, the president was being congratulated even before the resolution was passed.

"As the international community has to cooperate in order to reconstruct Iraq, I would like to pay respect to the strong leadership of President Bush in meeting this international coordination," Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said.

In Washington, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell offered a glowing assessment of the UN resolution. "I think it shows the international community coming together again to support the Iraqi people in their efforts to build a country that rests on the foundations of democracy and freedom and the rights of all," he said.

The resolution was embraced by key figures in Iraq as well.

Remind us again why the President's intransigence was a bad thing?

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 9, 2004 10:50 AM