By DEBORAH SEWARD
The Associated Press
Saturday, September 20, 2003; 12:37 PM
NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia - President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Russia does not rule out sending military personnel to Iraq but deploying troops is not on the agenda now.
He emphasized that the terms and timeline of an international force must be laid out by the U.N. Security Council, but said Russia does not oppose the United States' being in command of the peacekeeping force.
Putin spoke in an interview with U.S. media, including The Associated Press, at his residence outside Moscow.
I don't quite understand. How much control will this require for the U.S. to cede?
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I'm studying for the CPA exam. Have a nice summer, and if you're down just sit back and realize that Joe is off somewhere, doing much worse than you are.
We would probably keep overall military command, but you could kiss many of the exlusive oil and reconstruction contracts goodbye - i.e. most of the "spoils of war"; they'd fall under U.N. and then Iraqi provisional jurisdiction (if the Europeans don't press their own original pre-collapse claims, that is).
Durran Korr wrote:I don't quite understand. How much control will this require for the U.S. to cede?
My feeling is that there is an expectation that the UN governs Iraq until such time as Iraq can do so itself. The US, by virtue of having the most troops, commands the troops in the country. Similar thing happned in East Timor after the militias were delt to.
Via money Europe could become political in five years" "... the current communities should be completed by a Finance Common Market which would lead us to European economic unity. Only then would ... the mutual commitments make it fairly easy to produce the political union which is the goal"
"Entire Iraqi city of Fallujah pounded into rubble by Russian artillery after some Iraqi looked at them funny"
Followed by "Full scale uprising against foreign troops underway in Iraq"
Russians are one thing we do not need when there is a chance of less then all out war shooting. Though I suppose its better then the suggestion they then peacekeepers to Afghanistan.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
