THIS'LL CERTAINLY PUT A CRAMP IN HIS PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA:

Bush predicts unanimous vote on U.N. resolution (Tom Raum, June 8, 2004, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

President Bush predicted a unanimous U.N. Security Council vote on a resolution dealing with post-occupation Iraq, calling it a "catalyst for change" in the region and a welcome kickoff for an eight-power economic summit.

"There were some that said we would never get it," Bush told reporters during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

"If things go well, it will be a unanimous vote," Bush said ahead of an expected vote in New York later Tuesday.

Bush said the upcoming vote on the revised U.N. resolution defining the new Iraqi government's power would amount to "saying to the world that the members of the Security Council are interested in working together to make sure Iraq is free, peaceful and democratic."

"It is a very important moment in seeing that our objective is achieved," he added.

You have to give Old Europe some credit, when it saw that things were going far better in Iraq than they'd predicted they had sense enough to get back on the right side of history. If only the Democrats were as smart as the French & Germans.

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Iraqi Gratitude: The new government is thanking America and Bush. Why are the media silent? (Wall Street Journal, June 8, 2004)

A myth has developed that Iraqis aren't grateful for their liberation from Saddam. So it's worth noting that the leaders of Iraq's new interim government have been explicit and gracious in their thanks, not that you've heard this from the U.S. media.

First in Arabic and then in English, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in his inaugural address to the Iraqi people last Tuesday that "I would like to record our profound gratitude and appreciation to the U.S.-led international coalition, which has made great sacrifices for the liberation of Iraq." In his own remarks, President Ghazi al-Yawer said: "Before I end my speech, I would like us to remember our martyrs who fell in defense of freedom and honor, as well as our friends who fell in the battle for the liberation of Iraq."

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 8, 2004 4:58 PM