Young sees growing support for war with Iraq [a Democrat actually gets it]

Courier Journal ^ | 3/19/03 | Chris Kenning

[Chancellor Palpatine]

More countries likely will fall in behind the United States once hostilities with Iraq begin, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations predicted yesterday in Louisville.

Andrew Young, who was U.N. ambassador under President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, said he thinks international support will grow even more in the effort to transform Iraq into a peaceful and stable country.

''We may find that President Bush has pulled a real coup,'' said Young, who supported Al Gore in the 2000 election. ''I think we're going to be proven right in the U.N.''

Young was in Louisville to address the annual Salute to Catholic School Alumni dinner, an event honoring outstanding graduates sponsored by the Catholic Education Foundation.

Young, a former aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was Atlanta's mayor during much of the 1980s. He is now chairman of Good Works International, which consults with governments and corporations on economic development in Africa and the Caribbean, and is a former president of the National Council of Churches.

He told reporters yesterday that he thought a war against Iraq was justified. Diplomatic efforts to win U.N. support and to disarm Iraq went on long enough, he said.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

What a great article and great set of comments from an unexpected source - make sure you read the whole article. My guess is that his experience as Carter's UN Ambassador let him understand what this sort of dissembly and diplomatic vacillation was all about.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

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[danneskjold]

My guess is that his experience as Carter's UN Ambassador let him understand what this sort of dissembly and diplomatic vacillation was all about.

Jimmy "Neville" Carter...

[Asclepius]

... ''I think we're going to be proven right in the U.N... ''

I hope so. Almost as good would be dismantling the U.N. altogether.

I like that Young said ''we'' instead of ''this administration'' etc.

[BullDog108]

They must be playing ice hockey in hell right now!

[JeeperFreeper]

Good post. A liberal intellectually grasping the current situation.... Quick, someone call "Ripley's Believe It Or Not"

[Chancellor Palpatine]

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[Conspiracy Guy]

Believe it or not as much as we want to deny it there are varying shades of Dim. Andy is at the opposite end of the spectrum from Dazhole and Hitlery and the like. But I think the story is a fake (Kidding).

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I know - the man sounded great on the radio. Sadly, though, with all the other news, this item got buried.

[JohnGalt]

We're All Wilsonian Liberals Now...?

[eureka!]

"Sadly, though, with all the other news, this item got buried."

By design. The presstitutes' unabashed dishonesty is really something to behold.

As to Andrew Young, kudos for his honesty--although he just ruined any chance to go on the talk shows....

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I think he'd have gotten front page play any other time, but there really is too much info right now, and its probably playing hell with the process of laying out the paper.

I could be wrong, but this time, it seems it was an innocent burial deep in the paper.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

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[anoldafvet]

Not only that, but the article was actually published in the "Communist Journal".

[eureka!]

Re#12 True, however, with the UN being such a focus for the past four months, one would have thought to interview Mr. Young. Maybe he was. In any event, one only needs to witness the pressholes' coverage of the Anti-American/communi..er, "peace" protests. ;^)

[Valin]

The former ambassador said he didn't think the rift on the Security Council -- and criticism that the United Nations is failing to enforce its resolutions against Iraq -- would undermine the institution.

Wanna bet? And no that's necessarily a good thing.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Hell, sometime this week they had an article on antiwar protests, but it was buried. It was too bad, because there was a pic of one graduate student who I wouldn't have minded seeing in one of those "bunches of nekkid women protesting war" pics, LOL.

[eureka!]

LOL. Don't let a college hard body trump principle, now...

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Heheh - I figured she probably needs to spend more time going to places where they film "Girls Gone Wild" and less time in graduate courses. One hates to think she'll miss out on all that fun while she's still attractive enough to enjoy it.

[baseballmom]

No, I don't think this would have rec'd much notice - a black democrat, who served in the Carter Admininstration is agreeing with President Bush.

He has strayed off the plantation, and this will stay buried. Mr. Young better watch his back.