Posted on 11/24/2004 9:11:24 AM PST by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A right-wing Republican group launched a television campaign calling for the United Nations (news - web sites) to be kicked out of the United States, alleging the world body is a "safe harbor" for terrorism.
California-based Move America Forward wants the world body's New York headquarters shut down and its officials expelled from the country because it failed to support the US-led war on Iraq (news - web sites).
"The UN has become an apologist and defender of terrorist organizations and their agents," claims a 60-second commercial, which also cites the oil for food scandal involving alleged fraud in Iraqi oil sales.
The spot, which backs a "Get the UN out of the US" petition drive, claimed that "billions of dollars" intended for UN humanitarian aid was used to pay the families of "Palestinian terrorists" and to buy weapons for Iraq-based terrorists.
"It's time we sent a message to the UN: We are not going to tolerate your conduct anymore. We tell other countries not to harbour organisations that support terrorists, why then do we harbor the UN here in America?," the commercial added.
The advertisement, which Move America Forward officials said would begin airing nationally next week, calls for Americans to sign a petition calling for the United Nations to be booted off US soil.
It comes amid resentment from US conservatives over the UN refusal to fully back US President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s decision to attack Iraq on the grounds that it had weapons of mass destruction, which never came to light.
In addition, the group's petition drive, directed at UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) and Bush, also calls for "a thorough review of the US financial contributions to the UN with a goal of a more equitable payment schedule."
"Until that review is concluded, eliminate all the payments made by the United States to the United Nations," the petition states.
Move America Forward's claims to be a "non-partisan, not-for-profit organization" committed to backing the US war on terror and supporting its troops.
It is run by former Republican party politicans and a conservative talk show host and campaigned furiously against outspoken liberal US filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," which denounced Bush's war on Iraq.
YEEEHAW! US OUT OF UN, UN OUT OF US!
Where do I join?
I'll sign that petition!
hmm how great would it be if we got enough people to protest in front of the UN and burn it flag symbols in NYC! it would certainly get more coverage ...
The John Birch Society has been urging us to do this since 1958. Glad to know people are finally joining in on the chourus.
Bump!
All aboard!
That's just lovely, watching AFP try to produce something to make it sound illegitimate. it has the carefully parsed language and carefully placed quotation marks that make it worthy of something from CBS. But, to the frainsh we can say "We Don't Care!"
Just signed the petition. Damn that felt good!
Uganda sounds nice.
Gee, I thought it had more to do with the blatant support for terrorist regimes, anit-Americanism, Food-for-Oil scandals, and corruption in general. I had no idea it was because they failed to support "the wrong war"... /sarcasm
Get the UN out of the US. Then raze the infamous structure and finally, flush Flushing Meadow.
I'll donate an extra $25 to FR in the name of the first person in the next 30 minutes from when this is posted who can find an article from AFP that contains a reference to a "left-wing Democrat group"....
Yahoo got it right --- EXPELL the UN --- give it to france -they deserve each other.
That it did, and it will feel much better when we are out of the UN and they are out of the USA.
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