Pervez Musharraf and Chuck Hagel are both thinking about the UN for Iraq. Musharraf proposed a UN peacekeeping force: "If all the warring factions... different factions, if they accept, then maybe a Muslim peacekeeping force under the United Nations umbrella could be looked at," he told foreign ministers from the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Hagel, meanwhile, said on the Senate floor on May 15:

"We must take the American face off of Iraq. ... The time has come to consider an international mediator for Iraq probably under the auspices of the United Nations to begin a new process for achieving some form of political accommodation in Iraq."

Not surprisingly, the Iraq foreign minister at the conference in Pakistan politely declined the idea of UN forces.