[trebb]

All the UN is good for is as a high-overhead charity. Send 'em money if you want to see it wasted.

[maxwellp]

While watching the Iraqi ambassador to the U.N. being interviewed leaving or arriving at his residence in New York City, I noticed his residence. It's in the very rich section of Manhattan. I'll bet my life savings that all these dudes live on Fifth or Park Avenue. They dine in fine restaurants and completely enjoy all the splended enjoyments of New York City. This, and only this, is why the U.N. exists. President Bush says that the U.N. will be useful in distributing food, etc. to Iraq. I don't believe the U.N. can even do this. Saddam was taking the food and storing it - not giving it to the Iraqi people who needed it. As a New York City friend says, on 9/11 the planes should have flown into the U.N. building.