Lakhdar Brahimi's charge that he was under extreme pressure from the United States over his effort to put together an Iraqi government is yet another Bush administration scandal. For months I've been writing that Washington had to support Brahimi; now we know that Bremer—who Brahimi called a dictator—sabotaged the UN envoy.
Yesterday, President Bush, in his latest Iraq speech, warned Americans to beware of the “swagger and demented logic of the fanatic.” He ought to know. My comment: That's exactly the attitude that the French, Russian, Spanish, Germans and others in New York ought to have toward President Bush as they try to hammer out a UN Security Council resolution.
