Iraq's U.N. Envoy: 'The Game Is Over'

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Iraq's U.N. Envoy: 'The Game Is Over'

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UNITED NATIONS - Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.N. ambassador said Wednesday "the game is over" — and that means the war is over. Mohammed Al-Douri expressed hope that the Iraqi people will now be able to live in peace. His comments were the first admission by an Iraqi official that U.S.-led forces had overwhelmed Iraqi forces after a three-week campaign.





"My work now is peace," he told reporters outside his New York residence. "The game is over, and I hope the peace will prevail. I hope the Iraqi people will have a happy life."





Al-Douri was asked what he meant when he said "the game is over."





"The war," he responded.









When asked about Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), Al-Douri said he had no "relationship with Saddam."





"I have no communication with Iraq," the ambassador said.





Questioned about Al-Douri's comments, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said: "Well, I would say it wasn't a game, first."





Speaking in Washington, Rumsfeld said the war was "over" when Saddam refused to accept his last chance to cooperate with the U.N. disarmament resolutions. "It was only a matter of time after that."





Rumsfeld added that there was still lots of "difficult, dangerous" work ahead in Iraq.









Earlier, Al-Douri told Associated Press Television News: "This is a war, and there will be a winner and someone who is a loser."





When asked what he thought about scenes being broadcast from Baghdad, he said, "Well I don't know really, I watch the television like you."





He said that because of the war he has been unable to contact any government officials "for a long time."





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"I have no communication with Iraq," the ambassador said.

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He had no communication with Iraq since almost three weeks,

the article is missing to quote to be correct.

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<<He had no communication with Iraq since almost three weeks>>



Wouldn't matter even if he did have contact - up until yesterday the Arab "media" (giggle) was repeating the Iraqi regime's bizarre propaganda that the coalition was not in Baghdad. So, even the Iraqi dictatorship were cluelss about what was going on in it's own capitol city! This guy can be excused for being out of touch with Baghdad - his "leaders" in Baghdad were out of touch with reality!



An Iraqi tears a poster of President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Saddam City.





Iraqi-Americans celebrate the liberation of Baghdad:



Kadhum Al-Zawady holds up a copy of Newsweeks cover of former POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch, as he and hundreds of other Iraqi immigrants on Wednesday, April 9, 2003, in Everett, Wash., celebrate allied military advances in Iraq.



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Mike Burn hates America so much that he is totally blind to truth.

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