In a stunning-only-to-the-1600 Crew session, the delegates to the UN did everything but openly heckle the Potomac Napolean today as he boldly went a-begging.

President Bush's appeal for greater financial and military support for the reconstruction of Iraq failed to elicit fresh pledges today as members of the United Nations demanded that the United States yield greater power to the U.N. and the Iraqis.
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"Let us not place greater trust on military might than on the institutions we created with the light of reason and the vision of history," President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil said in a speech to the 191-member body moments before Bush delivered his remarks. "A war can perhaps be won single-handedly, but peace, lasting peace, cannot be secured without the support of all."
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One U.S. official said the administration hoped that Bush's speech would at least persuade governments to provide more money for Iraq's reconstruction at a donors' conference to be held in Madrid next month. "The expectation is that we are not going to get a great number of troops to participate," the official said. "But we want them to provide funds at the donor conference and we will try to make that happen."

Oh, and if you need to leave an anonymous donation of a billion or so you happen to have laying around, just send it in a plain brown envelope to the following address:

Misapplication of Foreign Policy Divsion
c/o The Department of Hubris Department
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC

It's not tax-deductable though. Sorry.