"After all, I have an election this November. And this place is a mess!!" They fouled this up beyond belief, haven't they, and now they want to cut and run. Ain't gonna wait until it's stabilized, just crawling to the UN.

Allies 'will not waver' on Iraq, Blair and Bush put on a united front.

"President George W Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair have stressed their joint resolve to stick to the 30 June deadline for handing power to Iraqis."

US warms to UN plan for Iraq

"Senior American officials have welcomed ideas put forward by the United Nations envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, for a caretaker government to take over from the US civil administration at the end of June."

They made such a mess of it they would give it to anyone in order to dodge responsibility. It's kinda funny, really.

Arf