[CamB]

Yeah, I actually thought before I typed. But why shoot the messenger?

I'm not doing anything I wouldn't normally do - I do this sort of thing to all the emails I'm usually sent asking for money for a girl with cancer in Ohio too.

I could have kept my mouth shut - I considered it. However, given it (probably - CNN denied it) isn't true, then why should the story be spread further?

Are warm fuzzies supposed to affect whether I post this? Island - remember the Cool Collar - the Snopes website has more evidence that the story is BS than anyone provided that the Cool Collar was BS.

(edit) If you think I am a manipulative cynic, assuming that the "report" from the CNN guy is fake, where did it come from? Whoever wrote it is truely cynical. (end edit)

"Today is your eat crow day".

Yeah, I've been thinking about that a lot too. So, it turns out that the Iraqi people are happy the Coalition ousted Saddam. I don't think I doubted that prior to the war, so no crow to eat there.

Potential WMDs found - also not a big surprise to me. I could argue that since Saddam didn't use WMD, then he didn't have any. Still no crow.

However,

- the US still ignored (and continues to treat with contempt) the UN, and IMO much of the world
- lotsa people died, unfortunately

These two (and the US ongoing, er, "relationship" with Iraq) are what I am worried about. Recent quote in the media (xtra.co.nz summarising Reuters):

Bush and Blair have promised the United Nations will have a "vital role" in Iraq's reconstruction but it would apparently be limited mostly to distributing humanitarian aid.

Powell dismissed German, Russian and French calls for a "central" U.N. role.

"I'm not quite sure what that means. They just say central and then they go on to their next meeting," Powell said.

I am actually pretty confident the US will do the right thing for the Iraqi people, but the tone of what has been said so far is still a bit scary.

Basically, the US is going to ask for UN endorsement of a US-back Iraq Interim Authority. There is a decent chance the UN will say no (it appears none of the other major players think it is a good idea).

So if they say no to endorsement - then what?