U.N. Poised to Lift Iraq Sanctions Thursday

[underthedome]

good news…

France, Germany, Russia, China and Syria, Germany was "definitely on board.

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2786871

[Nadia_H]

From the article:

**While Washington has left the door open to a possible future change of heart, it has so far flatly refused to bow to previous U.N. resolutions requiring that, before the sanctions can be lifted, the inspectors must certify that all Iraq’s mass destruction weapons have been destroyed.

The point is a particularly sore one because the United States said it was invading Iraq to disarm it, but so far no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons have been found.**

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[myvoice]

** "The resolution would lift all sanctions except an arms embargo and also end the strict U.N. controls on the Iraqi economy imposed as part of the oil-for-food humanitarian program, which would be phased out over six months." **

Hopefully, this will now satisfy the naysayers who predicted that sanctions would not end quickly after the fall of Saddam. This should have happened two weeks ago, but mere petulance by certain parties needlessly inflicted more harm on the Iraqi people.

[Changez_like]

Now the UN has approved to lift sanctions and US receives UN backing to control Iraq.

The world is about to see “miracles” of US control over Iraq. How the Iraq’s malnutritioned children will be obese pretty soon.

Source

**Resolution to Lift Iraq Sanctions Gets Big UN Vote **

The U.N. Security Council overwhelmingly approved on Thursday an end to 13-year-old sanctions against Iraq and gave the United States and Britain extraordinary powers to run the country and its lucrative oil industry

[Kaleem]

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Originally posted by myvoice: *
* "The resolution would lift all sanctions except an arms embargo and also end the strict U.N. controls on the Iraqi economy imposed as part of the oil-for-food humanitarian program, which would be phased out over six months." **

Hopefully, this will now satisfy the naysayers who predicted that sanctions would not end quickly after the fall of Saddam. This should have happened two weeks ago, but mere petulance by certain parties needlessly inflicted more harm on the Iraqi people.
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bu haa cry me a river myvoice. For twelve years you saw those epeople suffer and die and did not have a word to say about it. Now that you have egg on your face (see no WMDs or chemical weapons found to date), you come in with these comments of "certain parties". Shame on you, but then again American arrogance knows no bounds.