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We Must Pay Our U.N. Bills, Obama Administration Insists
CNSNews ^
| 6/16/11
| Patrick Goodenough
Posted on 06/16/2011 8:17:02 AM PDT by CNSNews
(CNSNews.com) Amid continuing calls to reduce U.S. funding of the United Nations, two senior Obama administration officials this week gave speeches asserting the importance of full and fully-paid up engagement with the world body.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice addressed the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA) on Monday, urging the advocacy group to help the administration make the case to the American people that the U.N. plays an indispensable role in advancing our interests and defending our values.
On Wednesday Esther Brimmer, the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, took the message to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, arguing that the administration was successfully countering anti-Israel bias at international forums, particularly the U.N. and its Human Rights Council (HRC).
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: susanrice; unausa; unbill; undues
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:17:04 AM PDT
by
CNSNews
To: knighthawk
US out of the UN
UN out of the US
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:20:40 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(From her lips to the voters' ears: Debbie Wasserman Schultz: ‘We own the economy’ June 15, 2011)
To: CNSNews
No, we should leave the organization and cut off the water and electricity to the building. Remember too to revoke all diplomatic immunity and visas for the personnel.
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:21:20 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: CNSNews
Because....? I suggest we set a strict standard for Presidential travel and make Obama pay the bills he runs up gallivanting around. At the least it would distract him for a moment.
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:21:47 AM PDT
by
BelegStrongbow
(St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
To: CNSNews
Groan.
US out of UN, and UN out of US.
‘Nough said. We’re a sovereign nation.
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:21:50 AM PDT
by
dagogo redux
(A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
To: CNSNews
"urging the advocacy group to help the administration make the case to the American people that the U.N. plays an indispensable role in advancing our interests and defending our values"
LOL, yeah, I'd really like to see someone try and make that case. And while you're at it make the case that terminal lung cancer plays an indispensible role in promoting the heath and welfare of everyone who suffers from it.
To: CNSNews
the U.N. plays an indispensable role in advancing our interests and defending our values. Speak for yourself. The u.n. advances the interests of our enemies, muslim brotherhood, world govt, statists, loss of national identity. The un: unclean, uncouth, unworthy, unreal.
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:22:47 AM PDT
by
C210N
(0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
To: CNSNews
the U.N. plays an indispensable role in advancing our interests and defending our values.
Good luck selling the American people that raping and other crimes is a valuable thing. Just another in a long list of thing Obummer is doing to ensure his '12 defeat.
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:23:20 AM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: CNSNews
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice addressed the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA) on Monday, urging the advocacy group to help the administration make the case to the American people that the U.N. plays an indispensable role in advancing our interests and defending our values. This would be true only if our interests included being expropriated for Third World dictator bank accounts, paying for UN adventurists to have new rape targets and underwriting ridiculous development schemes in nations not having reliable running water and if our values included exterminating inconvenient minorities.
Amb. Rice has a truly strange set of values and I would hope that somebody asks John Bolton for his opinion of her "opinions".
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:24:37 AM PDT
by
BelegStrongbow
(St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
To: CNSNews
"If in the judicious determination of the members of the United Nations they feel they are not welcome and treated with the hostly consideration that is their due, the United States strongly encourages member states to seriously consider removing themselves and this organization from the soil of the United States. We will put no impediment in your way and we will be at the dockside bidding you a farewell as you set off into the sunset."
UN Ambassador Charles Lichenstein, 20 Sep. 1983
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:28:19 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(From her lips to the voters' ears: Debbie Wasserman Schultz: ‘We own the economy’ June 15, 2011)
To: CNSNews
zer0, we are broke and flat out busted because of you. zer0 you pay ‘em. After all zer0, they are your kind of people.
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:30:33 AM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
To: CNSNews
Since Ubama's next stop is Secretary-General of the United Nations (Eligibility? We don't need no steenking "eligiblity."), he wants to have his slush fund ready-to-go.
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:38:21 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
To: CNSNews
Them there’s fightin’ words!
just the spark to begin the revolution!
To: CNSNews
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posted on
06/16/2011 8:48:27 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(WOLVERINES... a Conservative subsidiary of Reagan's party)
To: CNSNews
What a load of BS, send the whole thing to Libya and let them rent off of daffy.
To: CNSNews
So if we don’t pay our UN bills, what? The UN will leave? We will get kicked out of the UN? Where is the downside?
To: CNSNews
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posted on
06/16/2011 9:31:23 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
To: CNSNews
I'm 100% for paying our back UN dues in full.
AFTER we subtract the cost of our participation in past "peace keeping" efforts. Which costs are to be reimbursed but in fact have been ignored for years by the UN. I suspect that when we divvy up the costs incurred for military operations Vs dues, we will be able to sit out the rest of the decade as a fully paid member.
Regards,
GtG
PS THEN we leave! We should transfer the moneys targeted for the UN to the Defense budget.
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posted on
06/16/2011 9:48:21 AM PDT
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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