[Cyphas]

I am about fed uip with the notion that we need the UN's authority to do anything.

[Semper Paratus]

they never sought authorization from us

Authorization? We don't need no Steenking authorization!

[Felis_irritable]

Whoops! Who forgot to tell the UN?

They (the UN) seem to not realize that if you want it done right, and on time, and at a reasonable (no bribes) cost, you cut them out of the picture.

The UN is useful so we can keep tabs on what the rest of the fools on this planet are up to, nothing more.

[LurkedLongEnough]

"While under similar supervision by the IAEA during 1990s, North Korea successfully acquired the capacity to make nuclear weapons, along with ICBMs that can strike the continental U.S. ... In Dec. 2002, Pyongyang kicked out IAEA inspectors after announcing to the world that they were proceeding full-speed ahead with their nuclear weapons development program. ... The IAEA left Iraq in March 2003, just before the U.S. invasion."

Memo to U.N.: écoutez bien, vous allez non pertinent.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Apparently Iran had first refusal.

[The Wizard]

screw the UN.

[The Wizard]

we don't need any OK from the UN for anything except demolishing the building.

[Psalm 73]

"United Nations officials are complaining that the U.S. Energy Department failed to consult with them..."

Boy, are they thick - OK, once more: WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THUGS AT THE UN THINK OR SAY.

[cripplecreek]

At this point it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the UN allready had the deal set for terrorists to get their share.

[ez]

If you had backed up your own resolutions, UN, you would have something to say. Since you didn't, STFU.

[mathluv]

'U.N. official said there was some concern about the legality of the U.S. transfer because the nuclear material belonged to Iraq and was under the control and supervision of the IAEA'

Under their control and supervision - and they did not know we removed it? We don't need that kind of control and supervision.

[chilepepper]

I'll imagine there is a lot of teeth gnashing by Blix and his cohorts right now -- they had probably started a bidding war between Al Qaeda, Iran and the Columbian drug lords over these two tons of uranium and had their new Mercedes with UN plates all picked out...

[rudypoot]

Though the existence of Saddam's nuclear fuel stockpile had been known to U.S. officials years, neither the Bush administration nor the American media has done much to publicize the news.

That's funny, the administration didn't publicize the Abu Grahib thing either and that got coverage for 3 months. The fact that Saddam possessed fissile material is not that big a deal. But underwear on arabs' heads is the real outrage. Damn media.

[MamaTexan]

The United Nations-

The Jesse Jackson of the international community.

I'm relevant, dammit, relevant!

[DoctorMichael]

We oughta backup a truck and dump the whole 2 tons on the front steps of the UN building.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We don't need your authorization.

[mountainlyons]

Let me try to understand this. The un is mad at us for removing dangerous materials but they let Saddam take trainloads of WMD to Lebanon and Syria? Ma by we needed to take a few billion dollars of money from the oil for food program to be un friends.

[Alia]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Ivan Oelrich, a physicist at the Federation of American Scientists, said Tuesday that Iraq's low-enriched uranium could have yielded enough highly enriched uranium to make a single nuclear bomb - if it was the standard 3 to 5 percent enrichment level common in fuel for commercial power reactors.

So. It has all come to roost. Materials which could (might) be used to murder millions of people has been removed from potential "use against" citizens and military and coalition forces, and the UN is complaining they didn't get their cut of the uranium? lol! It's perfect...

[grumple]

How can you remove what you have long claimed was not there??? Or for that matter, challenge it's legality or legitamacy?

[Studebaker Hawk]

HEY UN! Eat my shorts!