Clinton's magic carpet ride to the UN

CFP ^ | February 11, 2005 | Judi McLeod

[MikeEdwards]

In the Make-Believe World of the United Nations, the sky’s always the limit.

Years of PR have convinced the world at large that the UN is a warm fuzzy blanket.

Dithering diplomats at Manhattan’s bloated bureaucracy talk a lot about peace, but no matter how critical the issue, never take any action. Even after scores of humans lose their lives in preventable genocides under UN watches, the worst that can happen is a Noble Peace Prize.

The UN has become a sort of Grand Central for global activists.

Still mainly mealy-mouthed after his decades long, well-paid career of empty promises, Secretary-General Kofi Annan is the biggest activist of them all. It was diplomat Annan who pronounced just weeks prior to the last presidential election that the U.S. presence in Iraq was "illegal".

Doublespeak from UN officials took on a whole new meaning with the arrival of Mark Malloch Brown, who took up his new post as Annan’s Chief of Staff on January 19.

Brown said that former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker will probably (emphasis added) "land some very heavy blows" on an interim report on his investigation of alleged corruption in the Oil-For-Food program, which was tabled Thursday.

Now that the Volcker report has been tabled, Benon Sevan and Joseph Stephanides have been fingered as the fall guys, while Kofi Annan escapes criticism.

It is now being suggested that many other agencies under the UN umbrella need the benefit of audits.

Terms like "probably" and "interim" are in full use at the UN. . . . .

[Piquaboy]

I wish he would ride it to the moon and take that itch he is married to along with him.

[RobertMorrow]

H.R. 1146 will WITHDRAW the USA from the United Nations' madhouse/cesspool

Go to: http://www.getusout.org/un/index.html . Then go lobby at http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm .
The United Nations is a corrupt disgrace and it is time for the USA to WITHDRAW from and defund the United Nations. Please tell your senators, congressmen and everyone you know to support Representative Ron Paul’s bill H.R. 1146 which would WITHDRAW the USA from the United Nations, prohibit US funds going to the UN and prohibit US troops serving under UN command. H.R 1146 is the American Sovereignty Restoration Act.

[Piquaboy]

Already done it.

[RoseofTexas]

IF bubba was to head the UN, this would be the death nail to Hitlery's aspirations to become President!! The American folk will NOT accept two Clinton in power...I JUST CAN'T SEE IT!!

[Malesherbes]

Bubba is all wind and no sail, and would fit perfectly at the U.N. But, enough already: U.S. out of the U.N., and U.N. out of the U.S.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bill Clinton and Hillary! have always been behind the "world government" movement. What would be REALLY scary is him in charge of the UN and her being Pres. of the US at the same time!!!!!!

[DuncanWaring]

Even after scores of humans lose their lives in preventable genocides ...

Scores?

How about "hundreds of thousands"?

[tumblindice]

The 'United Nations': systemic graft, neptotism & cronyism. Bald-faced hypocrisy, with UN workers corrupting Congolese female children. A pathetic, emasculated powder-blue joke ignoring genocide in the Sudan and Rwanda. A defunct entity bleeding US tax dollars while grifting from third world dictatorships ('food for oil'). . .

Bill Clinton: "Ah lak what I see!"

Why, Clinton and the UN: that's like bread & buttah!

[LibFreeOrDie]

"...a Noble Peace Prize..."

That's "Nobel", definitely not "noble"!