Dick Morris: To save the U.N., cut the dues

The Hill ^ | 12/1/04 | Dick Morris

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Dick is sooo goofy...but I just love him! ha.
He cuts right thru the BS.ha.

[Buck W.]

Let the states decide individually whether to join. Imagine Montana on the Security Council!

[Calvin Locke]

Tonight, on Britt Hume, somebody on the panel (no Juan, Ceci, Mara) said the too much pressure
will cause a backlash from the majority of the UN that already hates the US.

In other words, being too forceful in doing the right thing will have the opposite effect.

[kitkat]

***We must not let the U.N. Security Council become an auction in which the corrupt sell their votes to the guilty or the aggrieved based on who can pay them off more handsomely.***

Morris has this part right, but Annan has to be booted out as an example to other crooks. Talk about absolute power corruption absolutely!

[George Smiley]

too much pressure will cause a backlash from the majority of the UN that already hates the US.

Eff 'em. Like we really care what they think.

[rottndog]

Don't save the U.N. Let it die. The United Nations has an ocean of blood on its hands, and it should not be saved.

[26lemoncharlie]

Dick Morris, Advisor to The Traitor Clinton, just where does that put Morris?? Dick Morris is just catching up to what a lot of people here on FR and other Blogs have been saying for months!!

Now, I'm sure he will write another book, with O'Rielly as the Huckster and make a few more million, selling and taking credit for what other people have already known and said, What a great guy!!

It would be great if our elected Representatives would see this as clearly and as expedtiously as Dick Morris, one can only pray and hope!

[Nephi]

Yes, but I couldn't believe it when I heard Charles Krauthammer say the only solution was to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.

[o_zarkman44]

UN = united nothings. It's time America got out of the un because we stand for something good.
Cut the funding and give the money to grateful nations that ask for our assistance. Who cares if other nations are mad at us for pursuing an investigation? They would find someting to complain about anyhow.

[Cicero]

I'm no fan of Dick Morris. This scandal was broken by Claudia Rosett more than a year ago in the Wall Street Journal, in an article named "Kofi Annanderson." I posted her article here, and there was a long thread on it.

But that was the end of it for many months. Now, finally, it has broken out again, and the MSM is being forced to deal with it. If Dick Morris can help get the story out so the MSM can no longer spin it or, worse, suppress it, more power to him.

[26lemoncharlie]

Fox had been banging on this also, it judt gets me how all of this is going on and for the length of thime that it has been going on. Now so many people act like it's breaking news, where have they been?!!

[sitetest]

"We must not let the U.N. Security Council become an auction in which the corrupt sell their votes to the guilty or the aggrieved based on who can pay them off more handsomely."

I think that horse is already out of the barn.

[McGavin999]

Actually, we need to put together a coalition of the largest dues paying members who will all cut their dues in half until the UN turns over all the records, makes the scandal public and termanates everyone who's hands are dirty.

The US pays 22% of the dues, Japan pays 12%, UK pays 6%, and I'm sure other decent countries will round it out until we have 50% of their operating budget involved.

[TASMANIANRED]

I think the US should balance the budget by cutting out funding for the UN and every backwater government that encourages their people to thumb their noses at the US.

Let the French have the UN , we could use the office space.

[Noachian]

Yes, but I couldn't believe it when I heard Charles Krauthammer say the only solution was to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.

Krauthammer is usually right. The UN needs us more than we need it. America proved it can mount a war without the UN's blessing, so of what use is the UN besides being a place to debate and soak up American funds?

[randog]

How long before Koffee plays the race card:

"Jus' another zample of the white man holdin' da black man down!"

[Cobra64]

Yes. Morris worked for Clinton. He turned around and is very Conservative. He's sandbagged Clinton' "legacy" more than anyone I know. I'd suggest you get off the sheeple band-wagon of hating the "toe-sucking Dick Morris" bandwagon. Have you ever listened to the man, or just sheep most others around here. Morrid HATES his former boss. Suggest you buy a box of Q-Tips.

[Billthedrill]

These officials must be held accountable.

They cannot. Under the current UN charter they are not accountable to anyone but the UN, and hold control themselves over what that accountability will be. The gravity of this affair is slowly dawning on a lot of the internationalists, but none have shown any signs of doing anything about it. It's a systemic infection, and there is no real mechanism for fighting it - it was an inherent weakness of the organization from the very beginning. It is only important now because the UN is being promoted as a world legislative body, one step short of formal world government, but it is a government already bought and paid for, and only a fool would obey it.

[26lemoncharlie]

Thanks Cobra, Q-tips on my list! He still has some explaining to do.