Meanwhile, at the U.N. Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he regretted the war in Iraq, but that the Bush administration’s goals may have made it inevitable.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan: “On the question of regret, I still have to say is the war in Iraq and that the debate and the discussions that took place in the council could not have helped us stop the war. I firmly believe that the war could have been avoided and that the inspectors should have had a bit more time.”

Annan also called on the Bush administration to include Iran and Syria in talks over Iraq’s future.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan: “An Iraq at peace is in the interest of all the countries, including Syria and Iran, and so I would urge them to use their influence and to do whatever they can to help pacify Iraq.”