Bush calls for end to UN sanctions on Iraq

AFP ^ | April 16, 2003

[11B3]

What I want to see is President Bush calling for an end to the UN.

[Shermy]

What I want to see is daily protests in front of the Palestine Hotel by Iraqis demanding that sanctions be dropped and all moneys held by the UN returned. The "anti-war camp" will go beserk, from the profiteering axis of weasels down to the parasitical NGOs.

[ExpatCanuck]

Let's see if France vetos this unless the new Iraq agrees to honor the contracts France had with the old Iraq. I would not put this past them.

[anniegetyourgun]

It's a great start. This development has just one intent....to dare the U.N. to keep up sanctions, thereby risking the appearance of being hateful toward the poor, hungry, and pleading Iraqi people. The Left hates sanctions - and yet we may now actually see them embrace witholding to the needy. Gad, I will so enjoy watching them on that side - so WE can accuse them of starving children!

[Carry_Okie]

Bush calls for end to UN sanctions on Iraq

They'll demand a quid pro quo for any action that won't be worth the cost. Why not just ignore the sanctions? Everybody else did while Saddam was in power.

[Carry_Okie]

Bush calls for end to UN sanctions on Iraq

They'll demand a quid pro quo for any action that won't be worth the cost. Why not just ignore the sanctions? Everybody else did while Saddam was in power.

[joesnuffy]

Kofi Annan France Germany Russia China would let the whole country starve rather than coperate with the USA
After all it was they who kept Saddam in power in the first place...and could have easily gotten rid of him by demanding he step down years ago...
OR have allowed the USA to take out Saddam after GW1

[InvisibleChurch]

the UN will probably increase sanctions now

[okie01]

"What I want to see is daily protests in front of the Palestine Hotel by Iraqis demanding that sanctions be dropped and all moneys held by the UN returned."

Sounds like a wonderful opportunity for a FReep by the Baghdad chapter...

[katana]

I'll be very surprised if they don't try this but considering that there is no functioning government in Iraq who exactly is supposed to honor the contracts? And while they're trying to sort that out is when you do as Shermy suggests and have thousands of Iraqis outside the Palestine Hotel and what's left of the French Embassy screaming for relief. We'll just have to insist that, UN or no UN, the sanctions are null and void. It will be for the children, after all.

[anniegetyourgun]

We probably will ignore the sanctions, but it's important to require the U.N. to go on record in this matter. Remember, the goal is to keep exposing the U.N. for what they are - scum. The administration must keep the pressure on the U.N. until we get to a point where polls in this country tip against the U.S. participating with the U.N. Only then can the 'kill' be made. Remember, the small percentage of conservatives in the U.S. will not prevail in getting the U.S. out of the U.N. It will take a majority of Americans seeing the light before that dream can be realized.

This administration has been absolutely stealth in its PR war against the U.N. - and it started in the first few months of Bush taking office. You can't name the moves they have taken, as they go unnoticed by the media (because the Congress has little to say about U.N.-related decisions), but they have been myriad over the last two years.

[Sir Gawain]

Scott McClellan, I remember that name:

Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said, "The president supports the current law (the Clinton gun ban), and he supports reauthorization of the current law."

[m1-lightning]

Bush calls for end to UN sanctions on Iraq

If it were only true...

[aristeides]

Hasn't France said it would veto this?

[arkfreepdom]

The problem is that companies will be afraid to sign contracts with Iraq until this gets cleared up. They could open themselves up to lawsuits. Stupid I know but a fact.

[Mister Baredog]

Let's see if France vetos this unless the new Iraq agrees to honor the contracts France had with the old Iraq. I would not put this past them

Don't mess with Texas, that would be UNwise

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What I want to see is President Bush calling for an end to the UN.

Yeah, that'll happen...Satan will be skiing when it does.

[johnb838]

I know that the UN and the Democraps have a lot in common these days, strutting and posturing on the sidelines, screaming their fool heads off trying to find something to make themselves appear to be relevant, but stymied by W at every turn in the road.

[cookcounty]

Great tactical move.

Now they have to vote with us, or decide (again) to screw the Iraqi people.

Dominique de Vichy must be getting another headache.