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Drooling on the Pillow

Thursday, January 27, 2005

Priorities 

James Taranato at Best of the Web points to a New York Sun article about a U.N. official complaining that American soldiers were too enthusiastic about encouraging Iraqis to vote on Monday.

The chief of the U.N. Electoral Assistance Division, Carina Perelli,
was asked in a press conference about reports that American
troops helped Iraqi officials distribute information on the
electoral process to Iraqi citizens, and encouraged them to
participate in Sunday's vote.

Ms. Perelli said that U.N. officials spent time "asking, begging
military commanders precisely not to do that," but the time
has not been well-spent. The Americans were "overenthusiastic
in trying to help out with these elections," she said. "We have
basically been saying they should try to minimize their
participation because this is an Iraqi process."


You can bet that if the Iraqis were deciding on committee chairs or coordinating fact finding missions on Sunday the U.N. boffins would be rolling up their sleeves.
Posted by: Sluggo / 4:31 PM
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