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What UN resolution on Iraq will accomplish; Passage will bring legitimacy to new Iraqi government, but measure is ambiguous enough that all sides can claim victory.(USA)

Byline: Howard LaFranchi Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON -- The anticipated unanimous approval of a new United Nations resolution on Iraq will be touted by President Bush as a strong sign of global unity as he meets with world leaders at the G-8 summit in Georgia this week.

That will be good for the US, as it tries to broaden the international commitment to Iraq, and for Mr. Bush domestically, as he seeks to convince an anxious public that the prospect for burden sharing in Iraq is brightening. For Iraq, the resolution wraps a cloak of international legitimacy around the government that will take the reins of authority from the 14-month ...

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