Dick is sooo goofy...but I just love him! ha.
He cuts right thru the BS.ha.
***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!
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.
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!
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.
"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.
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.
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.
"Jus' another zample of the white man holdin' da black man down!"
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.
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Morris... 'Welcome to the party, pal.' We've complained about the UN's corruption for years. They act as if this latest outrage is just a parking ticket. When you let organizations get away with murder for years, they think they're above the law. In fact they are the law. Not yet. Not ever. Go the way of the League of Nations, UN, and don't let the door hit you on the way out.
"The oil-for-food scandal is, of course, the first major scandal of the global community."
NOT.
UNESCO and UNICEF have already had multi-million dollar corruption scandals. Libyan and Sudanese leadership on the Human Rights Committee is Kafkaesque scanda. The UN's effectiveness in non-proliferation is a joke. It was utterly useless during the Cold War. It was and remains counterproductive in resolving the conflict between Arabs and Israelis. Just to mention a few major scandals.
Morris' assertion is correct only if "major" means greater than $10 or 20 billion, in which case the oil-for-food is one of very few major scandals in human history.