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Iraq not your 'treasure chest', UN warns coalition (UN vultures eager to pick at the corpse)
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| April 8 2003, 7:34 PM
Posted on 04/08/2003 6:45:38 AM PDT by dead
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"The UN is not the kind of private corporation that needs to increase its market share. We have quite enough to do elsewhere in the world and on other issues.
What a load of crap. They are absolutely salivating over the prospect of huge revenue generating oil for food (more accurately described as oil for Kofi) programs.
They would have let the people of Iraq live another forty years under brutal totalitarianism, as long as Kofi and his cronies maintained growing bank accounts.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:45:38 AM PDT
by
dead
To: dead
They can all go straight to hell! They helped the Saddam Regime in every way possible, and now they want to run things again. You can't fool America and the coalition of the willing twice.
To: dead
"Vultures" is the operative term here. A lesson needs to be taught and hopefully GW will be the one to give it.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:49:25 AM PDT
by
aegiscg47
To: dead
My issue is not the treasure chest although this is a real benefit. My concern is allowing the fate of the Iraqi people to be put in the hands of the devious and, I believe, evil people at the UN.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:50:05 AM PDT
by
AZFolks
To: dead
UN under-secretary general Shashi Tharoor said the coalition allies had no rights under international law to engage in any kind of reconstruction or creation of government without the express consent of the Security Council. Priceless.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:52:01 AM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Howlin
Vulture alert!
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:53:48 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
("The truth takes only seconds to tell."--Jack Straw)
To: dead
UN under-secretary general Shashi Tharoor said the coalition allies had no rights under international law to engage in any kind of reconstruction or creation of government without the express consent of the Security Council. Talk to the hand.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:55:47 AM PDT
by
steve-b
To: AZFolks
"My concern is allowing the fate of the Iraqi people to be put in the hands of the devious and, I believe, evil people at the UN."The same people that allowed genocide in several countries and then put Syria in charge of human rights, if memory serves. Oh, yeah, they should have a role--I suggest cleaning latrines.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:56:03 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
("The truth takes only seconds to tell."--Jack Straw)
To: dead
On his tour of Europe this week, Annan would like to "get a sense from his point of view as to what he can expect to find himself and his organisation saddled with at the end of a Security Council process that hasn't yet begun", Tharoor said.The UN could play a major role in picking through garbage dumps for recycling material and in physically scouring the sewer systems of Baghdad and Basra with UN personal using wire brushes.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:56:33 AM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(Just like Black September. One by one, we're gonna get 'em.)
To: dead
send the UN back to the stone age, wait Bush and Bliar just don't get it do they?
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:56:38 AM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
To: dead
Where was the UN tough talk about no plundering when Saddam was leeching off the food program to pad his luxury palaces? The UN has zero credibility.
To: steve-b
ive called my congressman and both senators on this...no un , no france , no germany..and i will call every day to tell them over and over
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:58:30 AM PDT
by
rrrod
To: dead
US Coalition to UN Toadies:
You stood in our way when we wanted to liberate Iraq...
So shut the fruck up now that it is being done without you.
Every whiny sentence you utter about how the UN "demands" to be let in on the reconstruction just shows how globally hypocritical and useless the UN is.
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posted on
04/08/2003 6:59:37 AM PDT
by
UncleSamUSA
(the land of the free and the home of the brave)
To: dead
Annan will be in "listening mode" He, instead, should be in "getting out of the way" mode.
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posted on
04/08/2003 7:00:05 AM PDT
by
The Toad
To: dead
It's all about semantics. I love how the UN is trying to frame this as a conquest. Why are they ignoring their failure? How come the coalition forces found in a matter of weeks what Mr. Blix and his inspectors failed to find in months? Inquiring minds already know that the UN is the new evil empire.
To: rrrod
Call, email, and fax the White House as well.
To: dead
The sooner annan and the u.n. find their way into a pine box the better.
To: dead; attagirl; hellinahandcart; KLT; Movemout; Tailgunner Joe; Carry_Okie; countrydummy
Pretty please? We're relevant...
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posted on
04/08/2003 7:02:42 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(I'm a man... But I can change... If I have to.... I guess...................)
To: dead
Under the Geneva Conventions, the allies have the rights and responsibilities of any occupying power, including the responsibility to look after the territory, law and order, security and the welfare of the people on that territory. "But that's about it," Tharoor said. "About it"? Doesn't that pretty much cover all bases?
The UN is not the kind of private corporation that needs to increase its market share.
Perhaps not. But the problem is that the U.N. as a distinct entity doesn't exist. It's the member states that actually matter, so the question is whether those member states or the coalition would make better trustees for the Iraqi people.
My guess is that the countries who were willing to sacrifice lives and expend their own funds to liberate the Iraqi people probably are the ones to be trusted.
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posted on
04/08/2003 7:03:34 AM PDT
by
XJarhead
To: dead
He added: "The UN is not the kind of private corporation that needs to increase its market share."It's a good thing for the UN that it is not. If it had been, it would have failed and gone bankrupt a long time ago.
Nobody's buying the crap you're selling, Tharoor. Like all good socialist enterprises you rely on government (the governments of the UN membership) to force others to buy your crap.
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