Posted on 10/26/2004 12:36:52 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Well, isn’t this interesting?
Agence France Presse, Sep 27, 2004:
A new board of governors of the UN nuclear watchdog met in Vienna Monday to draw up procedures for electing a new director general, with current chief Mohamed ElBaradei seeking a third term despite US opposition.
ElBaradei put his hat into the ring for a third term as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) earlier this month despite opposition from the United States and possibly other top UN funding states.
His current four-year term expires on November 30 next year, and US officials have said the United States, the largest contributor to the United Nations, supports the position of the Geneva group of top 10 contributors that heads of international organizations should not serve more than two terms.
"This policy has nothing to do with the director general's qualifications. The United States thinks that he's done a very good job leading the agency at a very difficult time, but it's simply a matter of principle and good governance," a Western official familiar with the US position said...
Applications for candidacies will close by December 31 and the board will seek to have the new director general named by a meeting in June 2005, in order to be formally elected at the next IAEA general conference in September
The director's general's new term would begin on December 1, 2005.
(ElBaradei has had this job since 1997 — hey, wasn’t that a year before India and Pakistan announced they had the bomb? And since then we’ve seen North Korea dishonor its treaties and get nukes, the A.Q. Khan network try to sell nuclear material to any and all buyers, and Iran is on the nuclear doorstep. This is a “very good job”? How bad do you have to be to get fired around here? What is this, “Mary Mapes rules”?)
Anyway, so in late September, the United States makes clear it doesn’t want a third term for ElBaradei. We read in the New York Times story that started all this:
“In May, an internal I.A.E.A. memorandum warned that terrorists might be helping "themselves to the greatest explosives bonanza in history… Early this month, Dr. ElBaradei put public pressure on the interim Iraqi government to start the process of accounting for nuclear-related materials still ostensibly under I.A.E.A. supervision, including the Qaqaa stockpile.
"Iraq is obliged," he wrote to the president of the Security Council on Oct. 1, "to declare semiannually changes that have occurred or are foreseen."
The agency, Dr. ElBaradei added pointedly, "has received no such notifications or declarations from any state since the agency's inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq in March 2003."
Gee! In late September the U.S. says no third term for ElBaradei, and Oct. 1 he writes to Iraq demanding answers about this old weapons depot!
Then, in a memo that appears to be dated Oct. 10, the Iraqis respond that the explosives are missing… and it just happens to show up on the front page of the New York Times eight days before Election Day. An article that quotes a European diplomat as saying “Dr. ElBaradei is "extremely concerned" about the potentially "devastating consequences" of the vanished stockpile.”
I’ll bet he is! He’s so concerned, he felt a need to make this issue that he’s been quiet about since spring 2003 and press the Iraqi government for an immediate answer that he knows will make the Bush administration look bad!
One has to wonder - has John Kerry or a member of his staff indicated they would keep ElBaradei around for another term? We know ElBaradei wants a change in U.S. policy on his third term.
ElBaradei is doing everything he can to help Kerry. What’s in it for ElBaradei?
Why would America leave the security of it's country up to the United Nations?
All members in Congress and the Senate are killing Americans by supporting the United Nations.
TREASON
The UN trying to influence a US presidential election. Please destroy that ugly building NOW dammit!!!!!!!!!!!
Ditto.
The UN hasn't seen a genocide they refused to embrace, and WE are next.
"What’s in it for ElBaradei?"
Fly first class; stay in 5 star hotels; draw a big salary; get in on bribes; retire with a fat pension; and after retiring - write books and speak around the world for a fee and hire out as a consultant to rogue countries on how to hide WMD.
UN Traitor = redundant
Of course, Elbaradai produced this fake letter as a sabotage to Pres. Bush's election, and his revenge of US not wanting to give him another term.
I guess I'm not convinced he isn't part of the coalition of the incompetent: Blix, El Baradei, and Annan.
I had scumbag up there but didn't want admin to pull it.
If the RNC produced a commercial that connected the dots from the bogus NYT story to CBS and 60 minutes to Elbaradei and the UN and made the point that the UN is tampering with our election and the MSM and kerry campaign are aiding and abetting them Bush would win in a landslide.
Well, well well, Kerry's already giving jobs for favours!!
Lots of really talented white hookers.
The U.N. should be treated like the Olympics - move them to a new country every 4 years so they can really experience the "United Nations of the World"
Just called and sent this via email to the following addresses at the NYT:
executive-editor@nytimes.com
managing-editor@nytimes.com
public@nytimes.com
Agreed. Let's have them spend their first (and last) 4 years in Rwanda, Haiti, or Saudi Arabia. Of course, that's only because something tells me they will find it much easier to arrange for free parking at their building in one of those countries. ; ]
that would take a bit more than a 30-second ad would allow.
Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. Stop payments of taxpayers money immediately.
Those conservative radio listeners who burned the UN flag had the right idea.
Those conservative radio listeners who burned the UN flag had the right idea.
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