Powell Warns Baradei to Avoid Politics at U.N.

The NY Sun ^ | November 1, 2004 | ELI LAKE

[orangelobster]

WASHINGTON - The White House is worried that the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency may use a scheduled visit to the United Nations today as an opportunity to fan the flames of the missing Iraqi explosives story that Senator Kerry has touted in the last week of the election campaign.

On Friday, Secretary of State Powell phoned the director general of the U.N. atomic-energy agency, Mohammed El-Baradei, to discuss the investigation into the facility near Baghdad, Al Qaqaa, from which at least 377 tons of plastic explosives, formerly under seal, disappeared.

"They discussed the upcoming meeting in New York and the need to work together to find out the facts. It was noted that this was a story a lot of people were paying attention to. It was noted that this had become a public issue," a State Department official who had received a read-out of the call told The New York Sun.

[orangelobster]

The U.N. is planning a November surprise later today.

[Keith in Iowa]

I think there's some bad apples in the CIA behind this...

[peyton randolph]

I hope the clymer tells the American people to vote for Kerry. That will be worth 10 points for Bush on Tuesday.

[ClaudiusI]

It's too bad we can't jam the cameras...

[IndianPrincessOK]

I think there's some bad apples in the CIA behind this...



That is for sure. America has had enough! Get him Powell if he tries to use the UN and his platform to destroy our President and interfere in our elections....enough already...America is not listening and will show it at the voting booth.

[Ingtar]

Or turn over the stuff afterwards and say, "is this what you are looking for?"

[federal]

On Friday Human Rights Watch sent out a press release claiming that senior researchers in the field had warned the Pentagon of other insecure military facilities. The executive director of the organization said Friday," "Immediately after the fall of Baghdad, our researchers were finding massive stockpiles of weapons and explosives throughout Iraq. But when we informed coalition forces, they told us they just didn't have enough troops to secure these sites."

Funded by none other than George Soros's "Open Society" communist network.

[SubMareener]

There are definitely some bad apples in the CIA. However, Mohammed El-Baradei has plenty of reasons of his own to want President George W. Bush defeated. It just so happens that some coincide with the bad apples in the CIA, such as, totally missing the Libyan Nuclear Program.

[Bandaneira]

I think the UN should avoid politics completely. They should all pack up and join their great leader on his trek back to Ghana.

[EBH]

I keep seeing this in news. Every time I see it I am reminded that there is a large generation gap between now and the last generation that saw a world war. There are still munitions missing from Hitler's time. Over the summer I read somewhere about chemical munitions from Hitler finally giving up their hiding place at the bottom of the ocean, because the containers have begun to leak.

Missing munitions, especially in a country like Iraq should not come as a surprise to anyone. Even if there had been more troops much of the munitions would still be ungaurded and missing. There's simply so much of this kind of stuff.

It is only my humble opinion that we should go ahead and turn Iraq's old munitions dumps to glass. The problem with this theory is the UN will want a kilo for kilo accounting and that's the world policy that is costing American lives. Since this is not a UN operation bomb the bunkers and the h*** with the UN policy. We don't need to be risking american lives gaurding this stuff for the UN or having it in the hands of the insurgency.

[Fenris6]

Its interesting how the Bush administration has served as a lightning rod to reveal charlatans and frauds. Someone should write a thesis on all the persons/organizations that have discredited themselves in thier opposition to Bush.

Does anyone beleive a Democrat administration would be investigating the largest corruption & fincancial scandal in modern times: the UN cocktail set stealing food from the mouths of Iraqi children? Anyone have any remaining faith in the Kyoto Global Warming Hoax or the International Kangaroo Court? The IAEA? The WMD Inspection process?

The mulit-lateralists at CIA & UN know their days are numbered if Bush gets four more years.

[livius]

Its interesting how the Bush administration has served as a lightning rod to reveal charlatans and frauds.

That's a great observation. I think it's because Bush is perfectly honest and unwilling to accomodate them, unlike a certain past president, who was both dishonest and accomodating.

[livius]

From the article:

Recent intelligence gathered by American agencies also suggests that Mr. ElBaradei may have been coaching the Iranians on how to avoid international censure ...

The Sun reported last week that U.N. weapons inspectors pleaded with the atomic-energy agency in 1995 to explode the cache of explosives at Al Qaqaa but were rebuffed at the time because the Vienna-based agency said the explosives were not solely for a nuclear-weapons program and could be used for industrial purposes.

Sounds like El Baradei needs a November surprise of his own. Those who haven't gone to the site to read the whole article should do so. It's full of little nuggets like this.

[finnigan2]

I think you can take it as a given that if Bush is re-elected, number one on his to-do list will be to get this clown removed from his job at the UN.

[Fenris6]

"will be to get this clown removed from his job at the UN"

I'm hoping he uses the UN as a foil to demonstrate why we need, as Mark Stern puts it: "a Coalition of the Willing"

[Diogenesis]

Intermission at ElBaradei's "We've-Got-IEAE-Thermonuclear-Weapons-for-Any-Islamic-Terrorist" Show

[samtheman]

We are vulnerable to this kind of scumbag leftist maneuvering because... why?

Do you really want to know why? Do the people here at FR have the heart and stomach to consider the reason why? The reason for our vulnerability?

Because the Bush campaign staff has blown it. They have given Kaptain Kommie Kerry a free pass on 95% of his documented leftist voting and documented leftist activity over the past 30 years. They've barely mentioned any of it.

The "genius" Karl Rove has decided to take the "high road". That's fine for Rove, and even Bush. They can continue on with their plush life styles in the private sector.

But he (Rove) is condemning the rest of us to the hell of a Kommie Kerry presidency.

If the Kommie Kerry presidency actually happens (in a year when Bush could have won an easy landslide victory) I hope there are enough conservatives around here with the guts to face facts and afix blame.

I don't mind losing a fair fight. But this has not been a fair fight. Rove has tied both hands behind the president's back. His strategy has been so terrible that there have been times here in FR that I've accused him of selling out. Mama T does have access to billions, after all. Maybe KR has an asking price. And maybe Mama T met it.

Pure speculation on my part, I know.

But one thing is certain. Any of a hundred other conservatives (starting with Rush as an example) would have made sure --- as chief campaign officer --- that the word on Kommie Kerry was gotten out, loud and clear.

The word has not gotten out. Why? Why Karl why? Why are you giving Kerry a pass on his past?

You've sent Bush on the "high road" and it has become the "high road to hell".

[glockem]

Your partly right. We can also look to Bush's choice to leave Tenet in office when he became President. I would have fired teh SOB and put in my own CIA chief.

You never leave the enemy in your rear!