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US Senate asks White House to consider Nato, UN support in Iraq
Washington, July 11: The US Senate has unanimously approved a measure calling on the White House to consider requesting Nato and UN troops in Iraq.
Washington, July 11: The US Senate has unanimously approved a measure calling on the White House to consider requesting Nato and UN troops in Iraq.
In a 97-0 vote yesterday, the senators said President George W Bush "should consider requesting formally and expeditiously that Nato raise a force for deployment in
post-war Iraq similar to what it has done in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo."
The amendment was authored by Senators Joe Biden of Delaware, Carl Levin of Michigan, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Kennedy of Massachusetts -- all Democrats -- and came during deliberations to fund us overseas operations for the coming fiscal year. Shortly after the vote, senior democrats in the US Senate held a press conference denouncing US policy in Iraq, calling on the US administration to end its quarrel with France and Germany and to ask foreign reinforcements to back up US troops currently in Iraq.
The White House policy in Iraq is "just dead flat wrong," said Senator Joseph Biden, top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee.
The measure also called for UN troops and expertise in the operation.
Biden said it was time US officials made up with Paris and Berlin -- prime opponents of the US led war in Iraq -- in order to demonstrate "a measure of maturity." "There's a need to internationalise this and to bring in Nato in particular," he said adding that he supports the addition of UN forces in Iraq as well.
Bureau Report
The amendment was authored by Senators Joe Biden of Delaware, Carl Levin of Michigan, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Kennedy of Massachusetts -- all Democrats -- and came during deliberations to fund us overseas operations for the coming fiscal year. Shortly after the vote, senior democrats in the US Senate held a press conference denouncing US policy in Iraq, calling on the US administration to end its quarrel with France and Germany and to ask foreign reinforcements to back up US troops currently in Iraq.
The White House policy in Iraq is "just dead flat wrong," said Senator Joseph Biden, top Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee.
The measure also called for UN troops and expertise in the operation.
Biden said it was time US officials made up with Paris and Berlin -- prime opponents of the US led war in Iraq -- in order to demonstrate "a measure of maturity." "There's a need to internationalise this and to bring in Nato in particular," he said adding that he supports the addition of UN forces in Iraq as well.
Bureau Report