Italy - Berlusconi calls for new U.N. resolution to authorize the use of force against Baghdad

Associated Press | September 25, 2002 | ALESSANDRA RIZZO

[The Great Satan]

Bravo, Berlusconi! Grazie tante!

[Constantine XIII]

Bravissimo!

[Huck]

Bread and circuses

I am not sure what you are grumbling about. Can I presume you would prefer the US ignore the UN? It's not going to happen. And even if this President had it in mind, he would still have to look at his strategic plan of what to do when. The fact is the President believes we should topple Saddam. It is also a fact that getting support from key countries in the world will make that easier to accomplish. And it is also a fact that a UN resolution authorizing force will make it a shoo in. For these reasons, this news of support from Italy is welcome news, if you support the President's position on Iraq, and if you are mature enough to accept the world today as it is.

[JohnGalt]

From Whatever Happened to Iraqgate:

The focus of Gonzalez's investigation was a massive $5.5 billion bank fraud that the Justice Department pinned on Christopher Drogoul, the lowly Atlanta branch manager of Italy's state-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavom (BNL). Benefitting from U.S. government export credit guarantees, the Atlantic bank lent the money to companies all over world that were supplying Saddam Hussein with weapons manufacturing gear and other goods. In his defense, Drogoul-backed by Gonzalez-claimed he was merely the instrument of a secret U.S. policy to aid Saddam Hussein. Rejecting that notion, the Justice Department indicted Drogoul on 347 counts of fraud and related charges in 1991.



No wonder the Italians support a UN war.

[copycat]

the “sons of Allah”, who “breed like rats”, invade Europe to soil the piazzas and bridges of the author's native Florence with their expletive deleted ,

Florence is the most beautiful city in the world, IMHO.

[Huck]

Tin foil.

[JohnGalt]

Interesting take, when Kenneth Timmerman wrote the article I pulled that snippet from; KT quit Newsweek in 1994 when they would not run his stories on tech transfer to China, and he turned up last Spring, adding fuel to the fire for Iraqi involvement in OKC.

All down the memory hole?

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

BUMP!!