United Nonsense (good editorial content from foxnews)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,84843,00.html ^ | April 23, 2003 | Ken Adelman

[Blueflag]

Here they go again, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan's famous quip -- bestowing on the United Nations what President Bush called a "vital role."

Someone should tell the State Department: Been there. Done that.

The only "vital role" the U.N. should play is simply to lift the sanctions. They were pushed by the U.S. and U.K. against a tyrannical Iraq. Now they might be used by France, Germany and Russia against the U.S. and U.K. with a liberated Iraq.

Bush turning to the U.N. Security Council before the war proved disastrous. It gave Saddam Hussein yet more months to augment his Fedayeen and other terrorist squads, who ambushed young Americans and Brits. It pitted France and Germany against us, and against most European states -- dividing the West more gravely than anytime since 1945. Turning to the U.N. Security Council after the war would prove as disastrous -- in terms both of effectiveness and morality.

Two years as an American ambassador to the United Nations convinced me that most folks there aren't terribly adept at economic development. Don't take my word for it -- ask someone in Kosovo, whose reconstruction is largely run by the U.N., which is largely making a hash of it.

[Blueflag]

Good read from someone who's been there and done that with the UN.

[GailA]

Master list Useless Nations Oil for Food Program scam

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Deep within the bowels of The State Department there seems to be the same crew that fills the ranks of the Dems and our socalled elite universities: the "America and the projection of American power, is the great danger in the world" crowd.

[TheCrusader]

O.K, what are Hanz Blix, Russia and France hiding? They want to get the U.N. weapons "inspectors" back in there in a big hurry, something's up. I'm betting they want to hide some evidence that would incriminate Russia, France, and some of the inspectors in a major scandal. This Blix character has become way too politically involved in this thing now.... it's becoming more of an intrique than an inspection.

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[Feckless]

Sanctions-Smanctions. We should just buy oil from Iraq and sell them anything they need. Anyone think the UN will deploy troops to stop us? F 'em.

[MainFrame65]

"The only "vital role" the U.N. should play is simply to lift the sanctions. "

No, that is NOT enough! The UN leadership, and their co-conspirators, the French, German, and Russian leaders who were trying to cover their thievery, venality, and malfeasance, must be made to cough up the money they stole from the Iraqi people under the guise of their misbegotten "oil for food" scheme. The UN is holding about $10 BILLION (Yes, with a "B") which would finance a whole lot of reconstruction. And it is in a FRENCH bank!

[pepsi_junkie]

Actually, I think sanctions expire in May of this year and so I dont know why we are begging the UN to end them. They expire, Iraq starts selling the oil. And if the UN tried to reinstate them, well, France isnt the only nation with a Security Council veto. Even if all the other nations in the world wont buy from them, we can legally, just as you suggest.