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Thread #96822   Message #1897306
Posted By: John O'L
01-Dec-06 - 07:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: The more things change...
Subject: RE: BS: The more things change...
"...the request conveyed in the letter of 11 November 2006 from the Prime Minister of Iraq to the President of the Council... to retain the presence of the multinational force in Iraq..."

"Retain"? What would such a force be doing there I wonder?

"...the common goals...: Iraqi assumption of recruiting, training, equipping, and arming of the Iraqi Security Forces; Iraqi assumption of command and control over Iraqi forces; and the transfer of responsibility for security to the Government of Iraq,...close coordination and partnership between the multinational force and that Government,...to contribute to the maintenance of security and stability in Iraq, including participating in the provision of humanitarian and reconstruction assistance..."

The words "at war" are not used, but the words that are used are descriptive of nothing else.