Watch your back, George.
"Annan told reporters that the Bush administration had pledged to accept the conclusions of the U.N. mission."
It does not take a hard cynic to believe that Annan may decide that allowing Iraq to collapse into civil war would be a small price to pay to cut Bush off at the knees, flatten America's foreign policy endeavors, and raise the U.N. back to prominence in world affairs. It's not like he's lose HIS job for a failure, is it?
Put it this way: I would not allow any negotiations between U.N. people and Iraqi representatives to take place unless some of our people are always in the room.