Posted on 08/02/2006 7:22:29 PM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON — U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown may want to stick to reforming his own office and stop criticizing member states, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.
Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization.
"It's not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda," he said, according to a transcript of an interview.
"I have to say that some of his comments, as reported today, are really misguided and misplaced. And we are seeing a troubling pattern of a high official of the U.N. who seems to be making it his business to criticize member states and, frankly, with misplaced and misguided criticisms. So I really don't understand the origin of these comments," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
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Whatever happened to the old "If it looks like a duck" standard of measurement.
One of the very few semi intelligent things Blather ever said.
I agree with him completely. The operative word is 'organization'. They are not an organization. Now perhaps they are a terrorist CLUB, or a terrorist SORORITY, or a terrorist KNITTING SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
He must be the Muslim version of "Bragatonni" -- "Large Underpants man. Hired by the pope to cover up every genital that was visible in Michaelangelo's work on the Sistine Chapel.
Mr. Bragatonni -- "I cover up everthin".
Who's this prick, Brown, and why does such a drooling idiot deserve such a position........let alone any bandwidth on FR?
Sign me............Just Asking.
"Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however...." he said"
however???? how can there possibly be a "however" after the first 8 words???? Geez, the first 4 words clinch it!
ummmm..... if there is gonna be a proverbial straw that breaks the UN's backing/funding/housing/free-parking etc. here in the USA, it better be this one!
Israel's next extraction raid should be on the UN building.
The UN is far worse than the League of Nations ever was.
I am all for it. Why do we continue to pay 22%+ of the budget for organization? We need to immediately resign our position, stop making payments, and give them 72 hours to vacate New York. Can anyone tell me one thing that the UN has done that was worthwhile? How do we go about getting the US out?
Yep, and insulted the US time and again.
the MSM and the UN are going down, and down hard.
Insult to leeches. At least they have SOME value.
And Bush is letting Israel deliver the knockout blow to the hezzie scum. Let's hope Syria and Iran aren't the cowards I think they are and join in the fun.
Turdistan.
I have no idea. If he thinks Al Qaeda is the ONLY terrorist group, then he should be flipping falafel in a tehran slum.
He's Kofi's right hand "man".
Yup.
please
Well, the mullahs ain't long for this world. France will lose it's favorite lover.
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