Bush's Iraq speech

The atmosphere in the U.N. headquarters seems to be better than it has for quite some time, but there is no indication that countries like Russia, Germany and France are prepared to help the unraveling of something they went against from the beginning.

That they would help the United States in Iraq now is particularly unlikely given that Washington ignored their voices in the run-up to the Iraqi war.

And here is the dilemma that was illustrated in the president's speech this week: The more successful Bush is when it comes to getting support from those closest to him, in other words, to be re-elected, the harder it will become for the United States to get global support for Iraq. -- Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden