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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.

[JohnGaltSpeaking]

It is as if the UN is trying to play chicken with us on this issue. We didnt blink before the war, what makes them think that we will now? The sooner the UN fulfills its destiny as League of Nations, pt II the better.

[mewzilla]

Will someone please audit the books of the programs the UN has been running? That should shut them up for quite a while.

[Mamzelle]

Hm. Looks like we've got a treasure chest! O boy!

[Cyber Ninja]

Pouvoir vous dites, "VETO"! `(:-o

[RightOnline]

I know what I want to say about the U.N., but my better manners prevent it in such a public forum.

[hchutch]

Agreed.

Time to tell them where they can go. Their participation is on OUR terms, not theirs. They don't want to play by the rules WE lay out, they can go to hell.

[ZULU]

"United Nations chiefs warned America and Britain today that Iraq is not a "treasure chest to be divvied up" after the war. "

There was a problem. They had an opportunity to solve it. They didn't. We did. How we handle things afterwards is none of their business, unless they want to provide some street sweepers to clean up the Bagdad mess.

We should get an international coalition to help with the reconstructionof Iraq. But that coalition should consist of those nations who supported us, not the arrogant French, the stupid Germans, or a bunch of third world dictators, nor that anti-American phoney Koffi Anan.
Perhaps Egypt, Britain, the U.S., Spain, Poland, Ukaraine, Italy, Japan, and some other Islamic states with rational leaders should help reconstruct Iraq along moderate Islamic lines.


I agree. The U.N. should go to hell and take Koffi Anan, Nelson Mandela, the French, Germans and Belgians with them.

[Travis McGee]

Angry Lilliputians chasing Gulliver, waving tiny broken strings, demanding he get on his back again.

[Starrgaizr]

Projection. It takes UN jerks to see this first and foremost as a "treasure chest." Thieves dividing the loot. They are disgusting colonialists who have no clue that this is World War IV.

[rudypoot]

"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.

The UN should be kept out because it's the coalition's responsibility to look out for the welfare of the Iraqi people.

Oh yeah, and France, "We will veto any resolution that authorizes the UN to do anything in the Iraq reconstruction." How do you like them apples???? Turn around is fair play and payback is a (explicative deleted).

[Bill Davis FR]

does it surprise you that the un thinks of iraq as a treasure chest...

[SHKMAN1212]

I find it galactically ironic that the UN is now claiming that the U.S. can't do anything in Iraq without Security Council approval because of resolutions that Iraq must abide by (the same resolutions that the UN turned a blind eye towards for years).

The UN could have laid claim to all of the power that the U.S. has invested in the freedom of the Iraqi people - a very valuable commodity that Bush, unselfishly, offered to GIVE the world body - but they said "no" (or, more precisely, "non").

Bottomline is that the UN, France, Germany and Russia can whine about not being involved - but they have only themseleves to blame.

[Publius6961]

Dear UN:
Finally found a good reason to fight, huh?

When the 10 French and German Divisions errr... your 10 divisions are ready to go bleed in Iraq, let us know, OK?

Until then please go pound sand!