Secret Meeting, Clear Mission: 'Rescue' U.N.

NYTIMES ^ | 01/03/05 | WARREN HOGE

[SmithL]

... believe that the U.N. cannot succeed if it is in open dispute and constant friction with its founding nation, its host nation and its largest contributor nation."
"The U.N., without the U.S. behind it, is a failed institution,"

Bingo!

[claudiustg]

He could stop picking on Israel for as start. But why do I feel certain this was not brought up?

[Uncle Miltie]

"The meeting was held in the apartment of Richard C. Holbrooke, a United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Clinton."

Isn't that cozy.

[bitt]

'"The meeting was held in the apartment of Richard C. Holbrooke, a United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Clinton."'

What, not Franken's place???

[Ethyl]

One of the members of the group had prepared for the session by finding out if the Bush administration was siding with those in Congress who were calling for Mr. Annan's resignation or whether it would support his resolve to stay in office until the end of his term in December 2006.

Why was not the Bush Administration included in this worthless meeting, if they had been there, the meeting might have been worth while. Wish X-klintoon idiots hosting, would have invited someone that has any clout, it was a totally worthless meeting. Why even report it nytimes? It is meaningless, and so is the nytimes.

[Boundless]

"The U.N., without the U.S. behind it, is a failed institution,"

With or without the US, the UN is a failed inst.

GW needs to get on with renaming NATO to the GDA,
enrolling all interested free nations, inviting the
UN to move to Paris, and then shutting off the money.

[Dark Wing]

fyi

[philetus]

AWESOME: Tonight on Smackdown (that's professional wrestling for you blue-staters) WWE heavyweight champ JBL "insulted another character by accusing him of being as corrupt as Kofi Annan." Heh.


Found at http://bocowgill.com/

[Tailgunner Joe]

ping!

[Redbob]

"First, they said, Mr. Annan had to repair relations with Washington, where the Bush administration and many in Congress thought he and the United Nations had worked against President Bush's re-election."

Hopefully, they advised him that his only hope was to grovel in the Oval Office, on national and international television.

So everyone could see just how low he'll stoop.

[Beckwith]

... replacing Iqbal Riza, who announced his retirement on Dec. 22.

Riza has been called up by al Qaeda and must report for active duty on Jan 11th. He gets custom fitted for a C4 vest the following day.

[mewzilla]

The investigations must be getting ready to go nuclear. All I can say is that even if Annan resigns, those investigations had better continue...With prosecutions to follow.

[maggief]

"He (Ruggie) continued, "The attackers of the U.N. for too long have had a free ride in exaggerating the magnitude of the problem, sometimes deliberately distorting the facts, escalating their accusations and demands for his resignation, ... "

Hmmmm ... VRWC?!?

:-/

[purpleland]

"Though Saddam Hussein is reported to have siphoned off at least $23 billion in relief money that was supposed to go to the people of Iraq while U.N. sanctions were in place, Annan called the operation he oversaw "effective."
"The sanctions were effective. Iraq was disarmed. Iraq is well-fed," the U.N. chief [Annan]claimed...
Annan said allegations of "some wrongdoing" are "being looked into," but quickly reiterated, "We should not forget that [Oil-for-Food] achieved its results." !!!!!

Then WHY was the U.S. blamed for the starvation of millions of Iraqi during the duration of the UN/Saddam scheme?

UN success? 10 years to this day massive suffering and GENOCIDE in Sudan. The tsunami disaster takes the focus off the UN's failure to address Sudan's horrid situation.

[handy]

The apartment gathering on Dec. 5 came at the end of a year that Mr. Annan has described as the organization's "annus horribilis."

Were they talking about Hillary's arse?

[purpleland]

"The apartment gathering on Dec. 5 came at the end of a year that Mr. Annan has described as the organization's "annus horribilis."

"Were they talking about Hillary's arse?"

Yes, they were, and they described *It* in Latin phrase because there is no polite English phrase to use.

The UN's covert agenda (and its passionate supporters)is to establish a one-world (UN) government which is the ONLY final solution for mankind according to their "liberal" ideation. (Ref. Walter Chronkite's address to the One World brotherhood, an adjunct entity of the UN - a conference which Hillary ALSO attended.)

The UN's covert agenda is not focused on establishing democratic freedoms and liberation throughout the world. Kofi Annan's single-minded ideology impels his over-politicization and biases. Because of Annan's ideological fixation, he subverts the UN's original purpose which essentially was to promote humanistic neutrality and world security. Annan and hostile UN members fomented anti-American sentiment and propaganda throughout the world.

[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping! So what's Holbrooke's vested interest in saving the UN?--was he involved in OFF?

The meeting was held in the apartment of Richard C. Holbrooke

I notice in reviewing my notes on Holbrooke that in 1991 he helped write the autobiography of Clark Clifford, a former Kennedy family lawyer whom Kerry protected from prosecution during the BCCI investigation. After that Holbrooke handled Clinton's Balkans policy before joining Kerry's foreign policy team, where he served as a liaison to the KLA. Here are some more sources I have on Holbrooke (clipped from Part 5 of my series on Kerry) FWIW:

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On Holbrooke, see "Holbrooke, Richard", Current Biography, Bronx, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1998; "Online Backgrounders: Richard C. Holbrooke: Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs", Online NewsHour, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bio/holbrooke_bio.html; Sunil Sharma, "200,000 Skeletons in Richard Holbrooke’s Closet", Z Communications, http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/sunil.htm, March 22, 1999; "Richard Holbrooke: The Balkans’ Bulldozer", BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/kosovo/190803.stm, March 24, 1999; Gary Dempsey, "An Accomplice to War in Kosovo?", Cato Institute, http://www.cato.org/dailys/8-05-98.html, August 5, 1998; "Secret diner in Washington: Holbrooke and Thaqui planned terror", BLIC Online in English, http://www.blic.co.yu/arhiva/2004-03-25/E-Index.htm, March 25, 2004. On Kerry’s campaign and the KLA, cf. Srdja Trifkovic, "Kerry’s Balkan Policy May Defeat Him", www.ChroniclesMagazine.org, http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic04/NewsST101404.html, October 14, 2004; Andy Wilcoxson, "Kerry Campaign Financed By Terrorists", http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org, http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/kerry101804.htm, October 18, 2004; Joseph Farah, "Suspected terror fund-raiser attended event for Kerry: KLA militant bonded with advisers, reportedly boasted of special favors", WorldNetDaily, http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41072, October 25, 2004; FReeper StopDemocratsDotCom, "Investigation: Terrorist Organization linked to Al-Qaeda funded Kerry Campaign", Post 30 at "Al-Qaida ally attended fund-raiser for Kerry", FreeRepublic.com, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255893/posts, October 25, 2004; Fr. Michael Reilly, "Kerry Campaign Linked to Fund-raiser for Terror Group", NewsMax.com, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/25/85141.shtml, October 25, 2004.

[backhoe]

Thanks- adding your excellent links to:

Click this picture & go to the "last" for the latest UN scandals:

[Political Junkie Too]

One of the members of the group had prepared for the session by finding out if the Bush administration was siding with those in Congress who were calling for Mr. Annan's resignation or whether it would support his resolve to stay in office until the end of his term in December 2006. The official, a onetime senior government figure in Washington with close ties to the Bush administration, said he concluded that "they were not going to draw the sword against Kofi."

That wouldn't be Colin Powell, would it?

-PJ