Posted on 09/21/2006 9:20:30 PM PDT by bobsunshine
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday was trying to settle a flap over a potentially damaging claim made earlier in the day by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ahmadinejad said Annan had told him Iran could ignore a Security Council resolution requiring the country to cease enriching uranium by Aug. 31 or face economic sanctions. The Security Council sought the resolution in the face of rising fears over Iran's possible moves toward building nuclear weapons: Uranium enrichment is one of the key factors in that process.
But in its most recent report, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, found that Iran had continued enriching uranium through the deadline, bypassing Security Council Resolution 1696.
"We didn't understand and couldn't understand why a resolution was passed in the midst of an examination of a package," Ahmadinejad said. "We think [the Security Council] was probably under pressure by some powers who constantly want to place pressure on countries. The secretary-general told me to disregard what has happened for the time being, resort to diplomacy."
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...coupled with hugo's statement that the UN should be dissolved - we need to remember that these 118 countries met in Cuba last week, and realize it was to strategize just exactly what went down in the UN. They were each playing their part of the agenda - and remember hugo said the UN should be abolished... The UN is a pain in their sides as well - So this looks like a double-sided strike aimed at further undermining the UN - even despots speak the truth sometimes. Indeed, it's part of the Communist Party handbook: Out of 10 points, make one an obvious truth...and people will be more likely to swallow the rest.
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Interesting.
Right on. I understand the other poster's passion but the rhetoric is just the kind of over-the-top vitriol that in no way advances the conservative movement.
>> What?? The president of Iran LIED? <<
Who do I trust, Kofi Annan, or Aminidhab?
I'm going with the Iranian, frankly...
>> What?? The president of Iran LIED? <<
Or, if one were more tasteless, one could say it wasn't necessarily the Persian who lied like a rug...
No, I agree... If any non-citizen, legal or not, is not willing to show amicability to the United States, why shouldn't we throw them the hell out?
Which liar are we supposed to believe?
Reporting for duty. Have we a live one?
BOOM!!!
Fixed!
Well, the posting history is a bit odd...
I think we're supposed to be shocked, shocked I tell you, that Mickey Blue Eyes isn't fond of Muslims.
Now, if someone will hate someone because of a single characteristic, regardless of any other virtue, that's not cool, but let's be frank: there's a hell of a lot of us FReepers who cheered, "Hear! Hear!" when the Pope quoted as one "knowing the truth of both [Christianity and Islam]" that the only new things Islam ever brought were evil.
OooooOOooh, someone said, "raghead!" Seriously, given the number of posters who would love the opportunity to use the Koran as toilet paper, I hardly think zotting the guy is called for.
At least we can say the Ahmadenejad is the "devil we know."
So I see.
I'm of a wait and see mind, for now.
The same can be said for Kofi.
Kofi hides behind a mask, he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Ahmadenejad is just a wolf.
Ahmadenejad is a crazed religious fanatic.
Kofi is probably the one lying through his teeth, on this one.
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