Show Ai NATI ONWO RID Thu Salt take Thbune Sunday 19 S1411111)(1 2004 Bush's address to UN not expected to get big response Frosty reception: 'the country's relations vkith many nations are still strained by the Iraq war By Nth DEAss Nt TON - Just seven weeks before Election Day President Bush addresses the United Nations on Tuesday seeking the W AS I international community's help in Iraq for the third time in two years It's not likely that he'll pt much of a response analysts say with America's relations many of its global partners remain strained by the war The sit u:it ion on the ground in Iraq is MM And a number of world leaders are awaiting the public's verdict on Bush almost as anxiously as he is After weeks on the campaign trail where his stump speeches draw reliable applause and cheers from well vetted Republican audiences Bush heads Tuesday into a diplomatic lion's den when he addresses delegates at the opening of this year's UN General Assembly Bush's UN agenda - seeking a multinational protection force for UN officials in Baghdad speeding the training of Iraqi troops and forgiving Iraqi debt is stalled said Victor Bulmer Thomas director of Chatham I louse an independent think tank in lAmdon 'Nobody's going to say 'We refuse to participate'" he said "But everyone is playing for time some of them because they hope President Bush will lose" the November election Kofi UN Secretary-GeneraAnnan set the tone last Thursday accusing Bush of waging an illegitimate war that lacked the backing of the UN Security I I -- I l Council "From our point of view and from the IUN1 Charter point of view it was illegal" the usually cautious Annan said in a BBC rad in interview Mat nInark followed reports from Washington that the US told intelligence community Bush in August that Iraq faces long term instability and potentially civil war a far more pessimist ic view than Bush expresses in public Bush has gained little ground in attempts to gain international participation in Iraq by reaching out to multilateral groups like the UN the NATO alliance and the European Union Creditor nations have yet to forgive the estimated $125 billion in debt Iraq owes to countries scattered across Europe Asia the Americas and the Middle East despite aggressive US efforts to secure such relief NATO after pledging in June to help speed the training of Iraqi hasn't police and soldiers moved beyond the planning stages Only this week is the alliance expected to agree on a plan for finally helping Baghdad build security forces that might one day replace the 138000 American troops there And the United Nations which Bush had hoped would at least take the reins on helping Iraq to prepare for national elections in January has yet to make a mark according to the UN's lead man in Baghdad Ashraf Jehangir Qazi A UN team disto to patched Iraq prepare for the elections has been confined to "Green Zone" the complex in central Baghdad unable to move around the country because the UN Security Council has yet to provide a protection force to keep them safe To the extent Iraq remains chiefly an American burden some analysts say Bush is to blame for leading the country to war without the support of the international community Among major powers only Britain Poland Italy and Spain coalition joined the US-leOthers fault the US diplomatic effort even Bush's blunt style of statesmanship for alienating potential partners "He has many many fences to mend" said Karen Mingst professor of political science at the trans-Atlanti- University of Kentucky in Ikxington "I don't think you can now run to these multilateral organizations and throw Iraq in Part of the response Bush will his UN speech will be to call attention to those areas in which he has worked with other countries through an initiative to provide an additional $15 billion over five years to combat the AIDS pandemic and to expand development assistance to those countries that meet US trit -- - dr i -- F i Nine cell on e r)ecoresso 1 rf 11 YI ji t i rim 4t kil r-r- vr 14 lk ‘ 117 ) t rk El Elk 7tr1 it f W ZS 17" a f er'1"1 vt OS 7t 7 r 0' : 1:' I 'i 4 SW - ' '41 ) 1:' :- f i1 IrJlimuTES® t 1 $3999 a Month agreement plus taxes and fees I L r 4rE FREE Samsung R225 (010WPO"110 1 - 'i rebate After $50 instant —mei v04000P--- (at participating dealers) SRP $4999 ""4'tof :TTi t - N — - N - I ( C to t -- a - 00 i'''‘ 't '4' '''' 0 4 ' t '' r -- -- - 4 - ‘ v i - ' 1" l t - 1 1 ) ' 41a1 f ifort ) '- I ir 1 () : ra DO ' k L '4: ' 1000Nationwide WHENEVER Minutes' FREE Roaming FREE Long Distance spectacles cluding tales from nearly 1000 years ago when Baghdad was the capital of the Islamic world On visits to the Army's hospital in the Green 'Zone Saddam has been treated by US military doctors and Iraqi physicians Who were on his presidential medical team He has undergone 'blood tests and scans that have confirmed he has an enlarged prostate gland officials said But he has refused a surgical biopsy that might determine whether the prostate condition is cancerous a decision officials involved said was common among men of Saddam's age 67 who often choose not to take the biopsy when they are told that the condition could take years to become "He has time" one official said In the courtyard by his cell Saddam placed stones around his plants a fact that struck Bakhilar Amin Iraq's human rights m in ister as bizarre "This is a man who committed some of the biggest acts of ecocide in history when he drained the marshes in southern Iraq used chemical weapons against 250 Kurdish villages and shipped whole palm tree plantations to the charlatan leaders of the Arab world who were his shoeshine boys "And now he's a gardener" the grounds of one of his former palaces outside Baghdad tending plants and reading the Quran and books about past Arab glory US and Iraqi officials who have visited the former Iraqi leader say he wears plastic sandals and an Arab dishdasha robe eats US soldiers' ready-to-ea- t meals for breakfast and is permitted three hours' (laity exercise in a courtyard outside his cell Ile has been flown by helicopter to a US military hospital in Baghdad where doctors ran tests for an enlarged prostate Saddam and his top lieutenants are being held at Camp Cropper a heavily fortified compound that crouches behind high walls topped with rolls of razor beneath watchtowers wire manned by soldiers with OM In his cell Saddam has a fold-ubed a small desk and a plastic chair as well as a supply of bottled water and ice a prayer mat and a choice of more than 170 books Ile sleeps a lot officials said and reads a with books ff pair Arabic-languag- standards for political and economic reforms lie also is expected to challenge the United Nations to live up to its own potential in in- thick-rimme- months after US troops pulled him disheveled and disoriented from an un(lerground bunker near his hometown Tikrit Sad-daHussein is living in an 101)y-13-1oo- t mini - 'THE NEW VoliK TIMES Iraq Professor University of Kentucky c L s1 Israeli-Palestinia- KAREN MINGST offer in Saddam gardens and reads in prison 011 palace grounds BAGHDAD "He has many many fences to mend" their lap" international community must rise to this historic moment" At the same time Bush realizes that his primary audience this year won't be seated in the cavernous General Assembly chamber but in places where American voters reside And there are few more reliable applause lines in his stump speech than when Bush contrasts his willingness to take action against Saddam Hussein against the long string of UN resolutions the Iraqi leader ignored addressing an array of concerns including genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan continuing bloodshed and the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea "Never in the history of the United Nations have we faced so many opportunities to create a safer world by building a better world" Bush said in his weekly radio address to the nation Saturday "For the sake of our common security and for the sake of our common values the LP Everyone goes through times of feeling down or unmotivated in their lives But for people with depression feeling very sad or having no Interest in activities can go on for a long time Sometimes this even "Mobile Get morefrom happens to people whose lives are going well you are suffering from depression you may qualify for a clinical research study were conducting on an Investigational medication Participants must be at least 18 and may receive compensation for time and travel All exams If I I d study-relate- ' 1 00000110100) r 0 1 i - 1 (01 1) '6 i i L e C) i 1 4 14 4 7 1 A 1 ill Arfr T v) i select markets sod locationsil you are not satisfied with our service you may cancel within 14 days of activation with no early cancellation lee Additional Regute toty Protdins Fee Of and other charges (including Universal Service charges) additional Otter available In select markets charge only tor a knitted time SERVICE oar sublect to change Coverage only wadable On our domestic GSMGPRS network and that of our roaming pedners Net More network) Norsk long distance (but not for credit rent railing caol Or operrocassisted calls) and thinning ad available on the Get More netvfOrk Credit approved I aCtivatiOn be and leer flOrOennt 'reared with $200 web cenceastoo fop $5 per line Use of Our service consieutes occeplance of our twerps and condottons including mandetory arbitration Unused allowances lost Partial minutes used re rounded up and charged at the fullminute rate cak rarasored Irren hen the network begins to moms the call tholone the phone rings or the call is efereened) through its termination of the call Rates are Iry domestic calls BiIhrg of roaming chaiges and minutes c4 OSP Of services may be delayed Call duretion may be limited DOVICPA sold lor use on OW GSMGPRS systems and may not be compatide with other wireless systems Additional restrictions apply see dochure and terns and conditions for details CALL RATING: Weekends are midnight En to midnight Sun WINS ere 9 pm to 659 am Entire call is mted based On wh4m a allistarts PHONEREBATE: While supplies latft or eubstilided for items be Rebate of Tis remoras and offer wilds of may of listed in this ad and neei activation on shipping charges apply phone equal greater requires putchre the phone a querying rate plan 02004 1Mobile USA Inc Available in flk eit per linemo applies This is INFORMATION: limited-tim- participating not a tax Or government-repare- Ts 1 t I I - W I 2 j OOR |