"Diplomacy? What diplomacy?"

Chile's representatives in the United Nations today suggested giving Iraq three weeks to meet certain disarmament objectives. The initiative was compiled to bridge differences between U.N. Security Council members who were feeling pressured by U.S. efforts to secure the necessary nine votes for a U.N. resolution to pass. The Chilean initiative seems to combine Canadian, Mexican, and British efforts to overcome the diplomatic impasse.

The White House flatly rejected the initiative, saying three weeks was far too much time.

Far too much time for what? For diplomacy?

There have been repeated lies from the Bush administration that it is engaging in diplomacy when it has been engaging in the six month positioning of troops and supposededly lining up agreements to help it conduct the war. They have been as remarkably unsucessful in engaging Iraq's neighbor's in the cause as they have been in their charade of diplomancy.