What do the French, British and Germans REALLY expect? What are they prepared to do?

UN eyes vote next week on Iran nuclear demand

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France and Britain, the authors of a draft U.N. Security Council resolution ordering Iran to end its nuclear program, said after more council talks on Saturday that they hoped for a vote next week. But the two European Union powers and the United States, which supports the Franco-British draft, acknowledged they made no headway during Saturday's discussions in resolving differences over the resolution's core provisions. Many of the council's 15 members left the Saturday discussions acknowledging it would take a miracle to agree on a text before Monday's arrival in New York of foreign ministers of the council's five permanent members plus Germany. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had invited the ministers from Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany to discuss long-term strategy for dealing with Iran at a dinner at a hotel near U.N. headquarters. Her hope had been that the council would adopt a resolution before their arrival. But the council has bogged down over provisions citing Iran as "a threat to international peace and security" and invoking Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, making the resolutions binding under international law.

Condi, are you going thru the motions for the history books as an institutional mea culpa because the CIA can't find out the time in Baghdad relative to Greenwich? Or did you just want a good pastrami on a bulkie from the Carnegie deli?

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