From No Right Turn - New Zealand's liberal blog:
The Bush Administration is reportedly planning to dump Iraq on the international community as a way of getting the issue off the US political agenda before the 2008 presidenial elections. What this means in practical terms is finding some suckers to provide a peacekeeping force, allowing US troops to be withdrawn, while dumping responsibility for reconstruction (you know, the thing the US promised but didn't do, while stealing all the funds for Halliburton) on the UN.
After the way the US treated the international community and the United Nations in the lead-up to the invasion, the gall is simply astounding. Having told the rest of the world that he does not care what they think, George Bush now expects them to bail him out of his stinking quagmire and send their children to die so that American may live (oh, and help his party, the gang that enabled all this, to win an election)? Fuck that!
Iraq is America's mess, and America can clean it up. And if they're unwilling to do it, then they can hardly expect anybody else to do it for them.