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U.S. Will Pay Increased UN Dues -- Despite All (Ari Fleischer confirms there is no rollback)
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| 4/7/2003
| John Gizzi
Posted on 04/04/2003 10:47:11 AM PST by TLBSHOW
U.S. Will Pay Increased UN Dues -- Despite All By John Gizzi
Despite the refusal of the United Nations Security Council to enforce its own resolutions calling for disarmament of Iraq, the administration is standing by the budget request it made in January to pay for a $90 million increase in the annual U.S. dues to the United Nations.
The budget proposal submitted to Congress by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requests an appropriation of $322 million for UN dues in Fiscal Year 04. Thats up from the $232 million in 03, according to the OMB. (The U.S. is assessed dues amounting to 22% of the overall UN budget each year.)
Asked on April 2, whether the administration had any plan to rollback the increase in UN dues, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, said, Nothing that anyones brought to my attention.
Some conservative lawmakers indicated they are also ready to pay the increased UN dues. A spokesman for Rep. Joseph Knollenberg (R.-Mich.), a member of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee (which has oversight over UN funding), said, Mr. Knollenberg was certainly disappointed in the UN recently, but he is not willing to turn his back on it. The spokesman said Knollenberg in all likelihood would support the increase.
Similarly, Rep. George Radanovich (R.-Calif.) told me, The UN has shown how ineffective it is after passing 17 resolutions that were ignored by Iraq.
Theyre [sic] League of Nations-like. But he also signaled he would probably go along with the administration on this issue. The President has to deal with the world community and the UN will have to have some kind of role in order to bring the rest of the world around [on a postwar Iraq], he said.
Two other members voiced reservations about the UNs role in post-war Iraq. There are plenty of alternatives to the UN and we shouldnt automatically assume the UN will be the end-all in Iraq after the war, said House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.).
The UN should need to prove it has a role, echoed Rep. Jack Kingston (R.-Ga.), a Member of the House Appropriations Committee. It was totally irrelevant leading up to the war, and contributed to the war in that respect. It ignored 17 of its own resolutions about Saddam Hussein and in twelve years never got serious about weapons inspections. Its very much like them to come around to the battlefield when the soldiers are dead and then to claim victory. You wont find leadership from the UN any more than you will find fairness or pro-American statements.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: iraq; libertarians; nwo; undues; unlist; us
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posted on
04/04/2003 10:47:11 AM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: TLBSHOW
AAAARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! Why do we do crap like this?
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posted on
04/04/2003 10:49:41 AM PST
by
doodad
To: TLBSHOW
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posted on
04/04/2003 10:50:18 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(http://www.joebrower.com/)
To: PhiKapMom
Hard to believe but true, the UN is on the table even after all the BS we went through. There will be no getting America out of the UN that I see. Its just more of making the UN stronger. I can't believe it. What is the President thinking?
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posted on
04/04/2003 10:50:24 AM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: TLBSHOW
Hey this is the NWO crowd.
Wimp II is leading the charge back to 1933.
France Germany and russia will get the largest contracts for rebuilding Iraq.
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posted on
04/04/2003 10:53:43 AM PST
by
dts32041
(US EPWs clothed and Fed, Iraqi EPWs bullet to the head.)
To: TLBSHOW
CRAZY.
I know the elite can't imagine a world without a U.N., but what good is it anymore? We should get out of the U.N., as a signal of its utter irrelevance.
Then, perhaps form a new treaty organization, to which membership is limited to civilized nations.
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posted on
04/04/2003 10:54:27 AM PST
by
B Knotts
To: TLBSHOW
I am against giving the UN one red cent!
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posted on
04/04/2003 10:55:04 AM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
To: TLBSHOW
The inmates are running the asylum.
http://getusout.org/
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posted on
04/04/2003 10:57:16 AM PST
by
c-b 1
To: TLBSHOW
We ought to submit a receipt for the cost of the war as our payment.
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posted on
04/04/2003 10:57:40 AM PST
by
Gil4
To: PhiKapMom
requests an appropriation of $322 million for UN dues in Fiscal Year 04. Thats up from the $232 million in 03, according to the OMB.
over one hundred million more for a group that does nothing, its a disgrace of many disgraces we are getting from these UN promoters!
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:01:19 AM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: Gil4
Remember guys..the intention is to make it OUR UN...to regain it for our purposes rather than leave it isolated out there.
Call your Senators. Tell them it's time to pull OUT of the Bolshevik UN and tell them to get their friggin building off of US soil or we'll drop it brick by brick into the East River.
Semper Fi
I have made 2 calls this morning.
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:06:19 AM PST
by
Leatherneck_MT
(Can't stand rude behavior in a man.... Won't tolerate it.)
To: TLBSHOW
Nice to see that this $100 million increase is supported by our so-called 'conservative' representatives. /sarcasm
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:06:51 AM PST
by
Fraulein
To: Joe Brower
Don't candy-coat your feelings, tell us what you really think.
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:07:13 AM PST
by
ampat
To: TLBSHOW
As long as the US taxpayers keep paying their taxes to the politicos who love to hand out our tax dollars, we all will continue to suffer these things happening.
Quit working for just two/three weeks and see what happens when there becomes a big gap in revenue as a result.
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:08:51 AM PST
by
crz
To: ampat
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:09:33 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(http://www.joebrower.com/)
To: TLBSHOW; newgeezer
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF***
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:10:06 AM PST
by
biblewonk
(Spose to be a Chrissssstian)
To: Fraulein
Its getting to be a joke! I can't wait for the spin of why its such a great idea from the President can do no wrong crowd.
When the fact is, we are the worlds biggest suckers.
That money is wasted......BUT GOOD!
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:11:57 AM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: TLBSHOW
$322 million for UN dues ...Oh. My. God.
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:15:27 AM PST
by
Anamensis
(Regime change began at home in 2000.)
To: Anamensis
think of it as the other part of the tax cut that got cut by our wonderful Senate!
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posted on
04/04/2003 11:17:57 AM PST
by
TLBSHOW
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