UN Preparing to Help Run Post-Saddam Iraq

The UN has "drawn up a confidential plan to establish a post-Saddam government in Iraq in a move that suggests its leaders now consider war all but inevitable," according to the London Times. The 60-page plan "has been produced in great secrecy over the past month" and "envisages the UN stepping in about three months after a successful conquest of Iraq."

"The UN is breaking a taboo, and arguably breaching its charter, by considering plans for Iraq’s future governance while it deals daily with President Saddam Hussein’s regime as a legitimate member," the Times story also admits.