BBC NEWS - Have Your Say: Should the UN route have been abandoned? (Needs Freeping)

BBC News ^ | March 17, 2003

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Should the UN route have been abandoned?

The United States, Britain and Spain have withdrawn plans for a new UN Security Council resolution, ending diplomatic efforts to win backing for a possible war with Iraq.

British ambassador to the UN Sir Jeremy Greenstock blamed France for threatening to use its veto to block the resolution whatever the circumstances.

Mr Greenstock said the three allies now reserved the right to take their own steps to secure the disarmament of Iraq.

Should the resolution have been abandoned? Has diplomacy now taken a back seat to military action? What is your reaction to the ever increasing threat of war?

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You can submit your comments right on the page. The BBC publishes them relatively quickly. Lots of US liberals getting their weirdness in; you may wish to add yours.

And if nothing else, reading the comments is good for a laugh:

As I sit here and read today's headlines, I simply want to cry for the future of the Iraqi people, who are to all of us our fellow citizens of the world. The fear and despair they must be feeling right now is incomprehensible to me in my sheltered American life. I only wish our world leaders realised that this is not about politics; this is about the upholding the sanctity of human life! We must work together as one unified world to peacefully solve this issue! I fear for all of us what will happen if we do not do so.
Allison Lind, USA

The sanctity! The sanctity!

The bulldozer!

[GiveEmDubya]

One day I read comments from some New Zealander who said we should apologize to the nations we labeled as the "Axis of Evil" because we were labeling them without reason and we were racists or something like that.

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I think I </font>left a font tag open.

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Let's try that again.

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Hmm.

ping.

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Small tag?

Booya?

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Oh, I give up.

[Sacajaweau]

It's been an education. We have learned much more about those whom we normally hold in high regard.

In the end, we did it right, all the way. The UN exists. It has its' place and will remain as a tool in the world.

[RightWhale]

Black suit, blue tie.

UN blue. Tomorrow, red, white, blue. Plus whatever Spain's colors are.

[Mark Felton]

This was my post:

No nations have allowed greater freedom for their people, or have provided greater humanitarian relief worldwide, than the USA and UK. It is telling that the leaders of those very two nations should abandon the UN.

The UN is a cabal of socialist and despotic nations. It can never be trusted to defend liberty or promote human rights when it's members comprise the most blatant violators.

Once again the US and UK demonstrate to the world the leadership that has over the last 120 years created the greatest expansion of freedom and improvement in the human condition in the history of the world.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Ignoring the U.N. is a good first step. The next thing to do would be for the U.S. to withdraw from the U.N., and announce they have just lost their lease. Once the parasites, er, "diplomats" are forcibly evacuated, the building can be bulldozed. Let those rotten theiving parasites find another country to pollute with their cowardly, lying Communist scam.

Once the land is reclaimed, use it to build a national monument to liberty and self-determination.

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Strange pol --- You have no idea how the majority speaks as comments are selected.

I said that the resolution should have been abandoned long ago.

About diplomacy? I asked 'what diplomacy?' All I saw was wheeling and dealing. And since when has diplomacy worked with terrorists and dictators?

The threat of war? There will be no threat to peaceful nations if there is no war?

Or words to that effect.(I don't think they'll like my answers)

[OPS4]

The UN is only a tool of the Terrorist Nations and their financial partners, Iraq, France and Germany.

Ops4 God bLess America!

[stanz]

Slanted. I wrote this afternoon and, although I understood that my comments might not have been selected, it seems that mostly anti-US sentiment has been chosen. So what else is new?

[Maeve]

Join the American Tourism Boycott
of
France
Canada
Mexico
Germany
Russia
and
Chile

[RummyChick]

well i wrote in and they didn't pick mine
I am tempted to write in bashing bush and blair just to see if they post it...except I don't think my fingers could type it out

[WOSG]

Good post.

[WellsFargo94]

"We have learned much more about those whom we normally hold in high regard."

Yes, especially when you consider how many nations we've helped out, not just militarily, but with disaster aid, economic aid, rebuilding, the list goes on and on. Yet, who comes to our aid when year after year our country is pounded by numerous natural disasters, let alone any other kind of help. I say for all we've done to help make this world a better place for all, screw the U.N. we have a need and we'll achieve it on our own if we have to...but don't come to us next time you are in trouble.

[blondee123]

Freeped & PING!