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Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval
NYT ^
| 3/10/2003
| Patrick Tyler and Felicity Barringer
Posted on 03/10/2003 7:23:50 PM PST by ex-Texan
Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval
UNITED NATIONS, March 10 Secretary General Kofi Annan warned today that if the United States fails to win approval from the Security Council for an attack on Iraq, Washington's decision to act alone or outside the Council would violate the United Nations charter.
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Mr. Annan's remarks drew a sharp response from Washington, where the Bush administration, like its allies overseas, was engaged in a strong lobbying effort to win the necessary nine votes to pass a resolution this week authorizing war.
The White House spokesman Ari Fleischer in a strongly worded retort said that "from a moral point of view," if the United Nations fails to support the Bush administration's war aims, it will have "failed to act once again," as it did in Kosovo in the face of persecution of the ethnic Albanians by Serbia and earlier in Rwanda in the face of genocidal massacres by Hutus against Tutsis.
Some international legal experts also took issue with Mr. Annan's assertions ***
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posted on
03/10/2003 7:23:51 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
To: ex-Texan
Oh, no! Not that!
2
posted on
03/10/2003 7:25:25 PM PST
by
clintonh8r
(It is better to be feared than to be respected.)
To: ex-Texan
Like Clinton in Kosovo? Like Chirac in Ivory Coast ?
3
posted on
03/10/2003 7:25:46 PM PST
by
ChadGore
(Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France.)
To: ex-Texan
I guess we need to be kicked out of it then. Come on Kofi, show some b*lls!
4
posted on
03/10/2003 7:25:46 PM PST
by
Brett66
To: ex-Texan
Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without ApprovalGOOD!!
5
posted on
03/10/2003 7:26:41 PM PST
by
Captiva
(DVC)
To: ex-Texan
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
6
posted on
03/10/2003 7:26:59 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Thank the Military for your freedom and security....and thank a Rich person for jobs.)
To: ex-Texan
Screw 'em. Let's roll.What time is Franks due in Qatar?
7
posted on
03/10/2003 7:27:05 PM PST
by
mhking
(Don't pull on Superman's cape...)
To: Brett66
LOL. They are acting like we give a s^*$ what the UN now says. They won't confront Iraq, they gonna do sumptin' to us?
8
posted on
03/10/2003 7:27:19 PM PST
by
eyespysomething
(Freedom and liberty have a price. Who paid yours? Thank someone today!)
To: ex-Texan; madfly; FITZ; Bill Davis FR; DeathStalker; mhking; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; Elkiejg; ...
I like this Ari Fleischer guy hes good at slapping the press around without lifting a finger
he he he
9
posted on
03/10/2003 7:27:25 PM PST
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
("He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling." Gandalf)
To: Brett66
I double dog dare you to kick us out Kofi!
10
posted on
03/10/2003 7:27:28 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
To: ex-Texan
Tell that clown to pack up the damned UN and move it to Africa or France. Then they can sit around all day pontificating while the world goes on without them.
11
posted on
03/10/2003 7:27:29 PM PST
by
cynicom
Once again, Kofi Annan has shown determined leadership by stating today that the UN may decide that it might be time to conceivably give serious consideration to possibly thinking about maybe addressing the option of debating whether or not it should take under investigation the idea of pondering the question as to whether it should regard the exploration of perhaps taking under advisement the many alternatives of ways to actually do something as a possible course of action that may be potentially viable.
12
posted on
03/10/2003 7:27:38 PM PST
by
Hoverbug
(whadda ya mean, "we don't get parachutes"!?!)
To: ex-Texan
Did Mr. Anal er Annan think that just maybe we might be withdrawing from the United Nations League of Nations when this is all said and done?
13
posted on
03/10/2003 7:28:11 PM PST
by
Beck_isright
(going to the war without the french is like duck hunting without your accordian)
To: Hoverbug
well said! ;-P
14
posted on
03/10/2003 7:28:38 PM PST
by
eyespysomething
(Freedom and liberty have a price. Who paid yours? Thank someone today!)
To: ex-Texan
Wake up and smell the Kofi.
15
posted on
03/10/2003 7:28:57 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty" not the "Statue of Security.")
To: ex-Texan
"Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval."
So, we'll worry about it seventeen or eighteen resolutions from now.
16
posted on
03/10/2003 7:29:03 PM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
To: Bogey78O
Would skipping the "double dog dare" and going straight to the "triple dog dare" be a violation of UN Charter?
17
posted on
03/10/2003 7:29:10 PM PST
by
way-right-of-center
(I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.-- Will Rogers)
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
Did you see Hannity tonight? Bill Kristol and Hannity both agreed it's time to get the U.S. out of the U.N. or at least start discussing this openly in the halls of Congress!!!! Will wonders never cease.
18
posted on
03/10/2003 7:29:21 PM PST
by
Beck_isright
(going to the war without the french is like duck hunting without your accordian)
To: Beck_isright
Ignore Kofi...
He suffers from Ghana-rea.
19
posted on
03/10/2003 7:29:39 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
To: FreedomCalls
lol...great post
20
posted on
03/10/2003 7:29:39 PM PST
by
way-right-of-center
(I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.-- Will Rogers)
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