Beyond the veto-The options open to the UN in deligitimising a US invasion of Iraq

Al Ahram | 4-9-03 | Ayman El-Amir

[SJackson]

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[mrfixit514]

Without U.S. dollars there would be no U.N. so I guess we can do whatever we please. Basically the author is admitting that the U.N. is useless. Well tell us something we don't know!

[mvpel]

Their charter went out the window the moment the body failed to give any meaning to paragraph 13 of Resolution 1441:

13. RECALLS, in that context, that the council has repeatedly warned Iraq that it will face serious consequences as a result of its continued violations of its obligations;

[denydenydeny]

Any General Assembly resolution denouncing the aggression against Iraq and demanding the cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of foreign troops under the Uniting for Peace provision, will..."delegitimise" the Anglo-American conquest of Iraq...

No, it will "delegitimise" the UN. Please, resolve away.

[Chameleon]

"There was a time when any outbreak of hostilities would be immediately followed by the convening of the Security Council which would call for a cease-fire, followed by withdrawal of military forces and negotiations."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[polemikos]

Its founding fathers could never have imagined, in their worst nightmares, that the world body would be reduced to a New York-style "soup kitchen" for the distribution of free meals to refugees.

Even this will be botched up by the U.N.

[MEG33]

So well put!

[arthurus]

Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles, phai khong?

[mathurine]

The whole damned UN staff are a bunch of refugees from the realities of the countries they have fled who are happily eating luxuriously at this elegant high-rise soup kitchen in New York where the expatriot effete meet to eat, stomp their feet, bleat, tweet and discreetly excrete.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"...and discreetly excrete..."

I would probably not say that the UN refugee thugs use discretion in the spread of their excrement. It is time to shovel the UN -- high-rise, excrement and freeloading staff into the East River and help it on its way to oblivion somewhere in the depths of the Atlantic!

[goldstategop]

The twerps can only denounce America and remind American taxpayers why its time to stop letting them bite the hand that feeds them. This American is fed up their arrogance.

[11B3]

And we care what Ayman El-Amir has to say why?? He should STFU and listen to what the average Iraqi citizen is saying instead of Baghdad Bob. This is just more crying over the end of so many authoritarian regimes in the face of a free Iraq.

All your UN are belong to US, camelhumper.

[Search4Truth]

These UN'rs certainly do live in their own world, don't they? It's like a religion to them.

They will never accept that their god is dead.

[Uncle Miltie]

HEY AYMAN: WE DIDN'T GIVE YOU PERMISSION TO SPEAK.

[George W. Bush]

The group's veto-empowered allies in the council, France and Russia, cautioned that failure to garner the two-third majority would indirectly legitimise the US-British campaign. They wanted to deny the two powers any de jure legitimacy, even as a de facto invasion of Iraq is underway. It is a strategy leaving much to be desired.

It's a bitch when it cuts both ways, ain't it?

Its [United Nations] founding fathers could never have imagined, in their worst nightmares, that the world body would be reduced to a New York-style "soup kitchen" for the distribution of free meals to refugees.

Welcome to your nightmare.

[mathurine]

I agree with you, of course, but I was running out of rhymes

[Mo1]

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[kcar]

That is EXACTLY what I was going to say!

[Calvin Locke]

Have you been following the UN's "Food for Sex" program?

Funny, it doesn't get that much play in the US lamestream media.