Weight of the war takes toll on Bush

Toronto Star -- Not much is going according to plan in Iraq for the U.S. administration and the pressure showed yesterday, from an irritated president and hunkered-down defence secretary to a U.N. ambassador storming out of a meeting.

Yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell said bluntly that the U.S. could allow only a limited role for the U.N.

"We didn't take on this huge burden with our coalition partners not to be able to have a significant dominating control over how it unfolds in the future," he told a congressional committee.

"We would not support ... essentially handing everything over to the U.N. for someone designated by the U.N. to suddenly become in charge of this whole operation," said Powell.