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THE U.N. NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED (Mark Steyn)
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| 10/7/04
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 10/07/2004 4:43:10 PM PDT by MarlboroRed
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To: MarlboroRed
Great post and comments bump!
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posted on
10/07/2004 7:44:34 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: Billthedrill
Exactly - excellent post!
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posted on
10/07/2004 7:54:22 PM PDT
by
GnuHere
To: Billthedrill
".......I think that something like it is needed......" I agree.
(1) Starting over and maybe (2) made up only of representatives of governments that are freely elected by their people (?).
The only problem with this is that someone like Saddam had an election and won 99.999996% of the vote (by coersion and illegal means, of course).
Good thoughts though.
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posted on
10/07/2004 7:55:59 PM PDT
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: MarlboroRed
I hope and pray that this is what brings the UN down...
Mama
To: tomnbeverly
"French rockets killing our boys in combat... this is outrageous"
This statement needs to be hammered home tomorrow night...this and the U.N. scandals..all of them.
Also, that Lurch has already conceded that he can't get anymore euro-trash help for Iraq...plus all the support he's lost from our coalition (Brits, Aussies, Iraqis and all the rest)plus the President of Poland basically saying this week that Kerry is shameful for not recognizing their help, Plus the Iranian Mullahs saying they wouldn't take him up on his offer of giving them nuke material as test anyway!?!?!?! Hi whole "I have a smarter foreign policy" argument is GONE!!! He would have done it smarter??? These issues prove how stupid the man really is!
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posted on
10/07/2004 8:13:13 PM PDT
by
libs_kma
(USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
To: libs_kma
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posted on
10/07/2004 8:25:27 PM PDT
by
tomnbeverly
(Global Tests in the defense of our Country are not supported by the CONSTITUTION.)
To: MarlboroRed
The UN is much worse than "useless." It is the enemy of all national sovereignty. It is the enemy of the American Revolution. It is the enemy of the US Constitution. It is the enemy of our real allies (especially Israel). It is the enemy of the right to keep and bear arms. It is the enemy of unborn children. It is the enemy of parents. It is the enemy of the Church. It is the enemy of God Himself. THE UN MUST BE DESTROYED!
To: MarlboroRed
Did you see that? 15 bil of aid, 100 bil of business...no wonder Saddam pretended like he still had wmd....much too profitable...
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posted on
10/07/2004 8:42:39 PM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Giving Comfort to the Enemy Is Not Something A Presidential Candidate Should Do)
To: Billthedrill
I stated on another thread that the UN is salvageable, but not under its current staff. It would take a comprehensive audit by an independent agency to even begin to right this sinking ship, to be repeated yearly and published to the world. Said "independent agency" would itself be subject to the same corrupting forces that have taken the UN under sway. It's a sturctural problem: ultimate authority is inherently subject to corruption. The checks and balances of numerous poly-polar governments, each subject to the consent of the people, are the only antidote.
That precondition has yet to be satisfied. Going in the direction of a global authority of any kind is fraught with peril.
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posted on
10/07/2004 9:56:20 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: WoodstockCat
"The UN is as useful now as the League of Nations was after WWI."
Not true. The League was FAR more useful.
1) We didn't fund the League of Nations to the tune of billions of dollars.
2) We didn't subject ourselves to League of Nations jurisdiction on any level.
3) We didn't care much what the League of Nations had to say, period.
4) We didn't have the League of Nations on U.S. soil.
5) We didn't deal with any members of the League of Nations as if they were our equals because they were recognized by the League of Nations.
6) We didn't have to veto stupid actions by the League of Nations.
7) We didn't watch the League of Nations Secretary General get rich starving Iraqi children.
8) We didn't have to combat League of Nations funded terrorists.
9) We didn't have to watch our 'allies' use the League of Nations to block action in defense of freedom.
10) We didn't have to watch our enemies use their seats at the League of Nations to send hundreds of spies to the U.S. under diplomatic cover.
That's all I got so far. Got more?
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posted on
10/07/2004 10:16:55 PM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: MarlboroRed
They need to confiscate the wealth of these corrupt UN officials to at least partially repay the Iraqi people. Kofi should be returned to a mud hut in Guiana.
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posted on
10/07/2004 10:19:42 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
(If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
To: MarlboroRed
Again, Steyn is a wonderful herald.
Get the UN out of USA! I could use an international court against all involved in the oil-for-food scam.
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posted on
10/07/2004 10:49:25 PM PDT
by
Ruth A.
To: LibertarianInExile
That's all I got so far. Got more? The League of Nations wasn't organizing multilateral treaties designed to bring this country's resource industries to their knees (and the economy with them).
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posted on
10/07/2004 10:56:52 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: MarlboroRed
Piss on the U.N.!
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posted on
10/07/2004 11:08:55 PM PDT
by
paleocon patriarch
(President Bush is a fighter - John Kerry is a TOMATO CANdidate)
To: Brett66
So-called Liberalism/Progressivism is nothing more than reverse social engineering where the enemies of the American Revolution promote "social action" that takes us back into the hands of the oligarchs that the birth of this nation secured many of us alive today against. It is the marketing of evil.
Who do the VIACOMMIES wine and dine with? Castro, a fellow treater of humanity as silly putty. I recall that Nation magazine in the rise of the Nazis proclaimed them, along with Lenin and Mussolini as part of the world community's answer to American capitalism. Some answer.
So what if the UN prostitutes children, so what if Sandy Berger steals and destroys documents from Top Secret national archives related to anti-American terrorists. So what if his "intellectually" volitional constituents (Chomsky, Moore, Rather, Brokaw, Jennings et al) support them too, and that includes their enablers, lest they protest any of that pesky labling.
"You have to wonder about folks who believe so strongly in nothing that they organize their lives around it." - James Taranto
To: knighthawk; ImaTexan
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posted on
10/08/2004 12:39:51 AM PDT
by
bjcintennessee
(Don't Sweat the Small Stuff)
To: MarlboroRed
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posted on
10/08/2004 1:04:50 AM PDT
by
lainde
(Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
I don't know if the UN needs to be destroyed.
I would like to see the US leave, and to remove their presence from American soil. Let's reclaim that slice of land in Manhattan!
Plus zero funding from the USA.
If our true allies [Britain, Australia, and a few others] would do the same (no membership, no funding), then the UN, wherever it lands, would be a very useful body indeed.
This "new UN" would allow us to keep an eye on all the world's scoundrel nations, in one little package!
Steyn bump!!
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posted on
10/08/2004 4:54:22 AM PDT
by
Museum Twenty
(Proud supporter of President George W. Bush)
To: MarlboroRed
Everyone is getting in on kicking the oil for WMD scam and bribery parade. 'bout time.
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posted on
10/08/2004 4:57:52 AM PDT
by
Tarpon
To: Tom Jefferson; backhoe; Militiaman7; BARLF; timestax; imintrouble; cake_crumb; Brad's Gramma; ...
Where did all the other billions go? According to Kofi Annan himself, some $31 billion went on other "humanitarian" spending for Iraq. Such as? Well, in 2002, the Secretary-General expanded the programme to cover other "humanitarian" categories such as "sport", "information", "justice" and "labour and social affairs".
In Iraq, "sport" meant Uday's rape rooms, and "justice" meant a mass grave out in the desert, but that's not to say there weren't attendant expenses involved. So Kofi himself directly approved such "humanitarian" items as $20 million for an "Olympic sport city" (state-of-the-art rape rooms) and $50 million for Iraq's Ministry of Information (Comical Ali's office).
No more UN for US-list
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
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posted on
10/08/2004 12:07:15 PM PDT
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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