Annan to address US public in nationally broadcast Town Hall meeting{ Your New President}

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[freedomnews]

Annan to address US public in nationally broadcast Town Hall meeting

9 October – Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, will address the United States public on 11 October - one month to the day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.C. - during a Town Hall meeting that will be broadcast nationwide.

Moderated by Walter Cronkite, the event will enable Mr. Annan to engage the US public in a conversation by reaching out to their communities. Via satellite from the UN in New York, the Secretary-General will detail how the UN can support the global effort against terrorism. After his address, he will take questions from people gathered in ten cities - Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle, St. Louis and Tampa.

Each individual city will host a panel of experts and a local moderator to facilitate ongoing discussion after the satellite portion of the broadcast concludes. The focus of the local meetings will be the impact of the terrorist attacks on the United States and the world. Some of the moderators include NBC's Bob Costas in St. Louis, former Colorado Senator Tim Wirth in Boston, and the National President of the League of Women Voters, Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, in Denver. The invitation only audience will be comprised of business and civic leaders, elected officials, youth, community leaders and clergy.

The Town Hall meeting is being produced by The Better World Campaign, a project of the Better World Fund, a sister organization to the United Nations Foundation. The Fund was created from a portion of an initial gift of $1 billion from American philanthropist and businessman Ted Turner. The organization is a bi-partisan, non-profit education and outreach initiative that aims to enhance awareness and appreciation for the work of the UN and the role it plays in international affairs.

[paul51]

Bring the money for all the parking fines with you.

[Faraday]

The "isolationist," "unilateralist" George W. Bush has put together the greatest coalition in the history of the world, and has done so by completely ignoring the United Nations. The "one world government" crowd--some CFR's, Turner, Cronkite--is desperate because "their" chosen vehicle for world socialism (the U.N.) has been discredited by Bush all year. He shot down their small arms (control) conference. He decapitated the Kyoto treaty. He boycotted and exposed the sham anti-racism conference in Durban. In retaliation, the US was kicked off the UN Human Rights Commission. What is abundantly clear is that the UN will be "tolerated" by the US government, if it knows its place, and is helpful on the margin.

[DoughtyOne]

     You forgot this!

    PUKE ALERT!
 

Walter Cronkite is supposed to be the most trusted man in the United States.  I wouldn't if I were you.  He's of the same ilk as Ted Turner.  Combined these two have about 25% of the reasoning power of a six year old.  Both think the United Nations is the only answer to world peace.  When surveyed, 25 out of 30 bricks knew better than this.

When wee Willie Pud Puller's approval ratings were sinking into the primordial muck a few years back, good old Wally scooped him and Ms. Plan B up and drove them around on his motor boat.  That's where that photo came from with Mr. Majestic's pants sticking straight up.

You can bet these closed circuit meeting halls care going to be packed to the gills with marxists / socialists.  The questions should run something to the left of Barbara Streisand or Maxine Waters, take your pick, same difference.  Don't be surprised if you see the same faces you saw at the anti-war protests.  After all, these are the people who hate our nation.  They dispise it's flag, it's national anthem, it's military, it's government, it's constitution and it's president.

I have a few words I'd like to say about these folks.  Jim Robinson and my grandmother wouldn't let me.

I guess I'll settle for asking the one question that's been on my mind for the last month.  "Where have you been Mr. Annan.  We haven't heard a peep out of you during this whole process.  Multiple thousands of our citizens died, and you couldn't choke out so much as an I'm sorry it happened.  Then yesterday you presided over a session where one of the leading terrorist training states on the planet was admitted to the United Nations Security Council.  What the hell were you thinking, and what right do you have to address the fine citizens of this nation you ****?
 

[cgk]

Watch the Skies, Syria

[eskimo]

Bush has snubbed him, I am not sure what your motives are, but your post history sure paint a clear picture

Perhaps you have too much Bush on the brain, no one mentioned any Bush.

Sounds as though your paranoia has driven you to issuing profile slurs.

[newzjunkey]

Notice the two cities with the largest concentrations of Arabs, Detroit and San Diego, aren't among the ten cities.

You can be sure I won't be watching. Unless there's "breaking news" FR needs covering.

[freedomnews]

He decapitated the Kyoto treaty

Many of the strategies being promoted mimic those endorsed in July by 180 nations as part of an international campaign against global warming that the Bush administration declined to join. In August, six New England states and five eastern Canadian provinces signed a pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Under the agreement, the signatories pledged to cut emissions to 1990 levels by 2010 and by 10% below that level by 2020. Those cuts are to be followed by even deeper reductions. It is the most ambitious goal set by state governments and it was supported by three Republican governors, two Democrats and one Independent from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.

[MJY1288]

I will join you in every protest of the U.N. you want to attend, but I won't go along with saying Bush has supported this soft talking anti-Christ they call Kofi Annan. I am proud that Bush has (for the most part) ignored Annan, I truly think that kofi Annan tried to test our president when he was still early in his term, and I was so glad when he quietly shut Annan out. Bill Clinton had a direct line to Annan, it was that COWARDS way out of a hard decision. I am very pround and appreciative that our President George W. Bush did not ask for a single endorsement from NATO or the UN, he accepted them but he made no FORMAL request.

He then addressed the both houses of Congress and all of us and made it clear he was going to "LEAD THE WORLD" in this war against terrorism, and he has. This is why I get my feathers all ruffled when someone claims he is cuddling up to the UN. I know you mean well, I just sometimes question your "added words to the title"

God Bless America....without the UN

[telos]

"Kofi Annan: an intellectually-advanced, spiritually-dead, animal; a totally pathetic, thoroughly synthetic, soviet socialist man."

Classic Kinks, beauty.

[havoc1us]

Down with gun grabbers. US out of the un(Constitution).

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

I heard enough when I caught a clip of him saying what a harsh blow it was that 4 UN workers were killed in the US bombing of Afghanistan and how the US should be more cognizant of civilians.
And I thought to myself, "Self, if sir cloud-mon was so concerned about UN workers, what the hell were they doing there in the middle of all this?"
Then I answered myself.
"Self," says I, "Kofianni is an African jesse jackson, (whereas jesse jackson is an American pretending to be African,) who could care less about anyone except keeping his own position which, as far as I am concerned, sucks. Big time."

[MJY1288]

What does it say next to the title to this thread? "YOUR NEW PRESIDENT"

Go flame someone else

[freedomnews]

Bush approves payment on back dues to United Nations,

hopes for help fighting terrorism

The Associated Press

10/5/01

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush authorized on Friday a payment on the United States' back dues to the United Nations, and said he hopes the money will enhance America's "close bond" with the international body.

Bush signed a Senate bill authorizing the second of three payments of the arrears. Bush said the payment fulfills the commitment he made to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in March.

The House approved paying $582 million in back dues late last month, just hours after Annan called for the United Nations to play a major role in the fight against terrorism. In his signing statement, Bush referred to the body's key role in "eliminating sources of funding for terrorist operations."

"This release of funds will enhance the close bond between the United States and the United Nations, and will help to facilitate the work the United States carries out in concert with other U.N. members," Bush said.

In 1999, Congress passed a law stipulating that the United States would pay $926 million in back dues if the United Nations reformed its huge bureaucracy and cut the U.S. share of its financial burden. The money has been set aside, but only $100 million had been sent.

[Captain7seas]

OK folks it's time to take our first question for Mr Annan.

Go ahead caller...

Mr. Annan, could you please explane fully to us the compleat details of your secret deal with Libyan dictator Moammar Gadfhafi to conceal his role in the bombing of PAN AM Flight 103?

Also as a follow up Mr. Annan, please explane why you would refer to Saddam Hussein as "a man of wisdom and courage" after he had gassed the Kurds and why did you allow Saddam to throw the UN weapon inspectors out of Iraq?

And for good measure Mr Annan, please explane what you ment exactly in your address to the opening session of the Millinnum Summit when you stated that the intent of the agenda represented by that conferance was the establishment of a new "economic and political order"?

Finally, Mr. Annan please explane in detail the ramifications to the United States of your statement that " the era of exclusive and absolute national soveregnity has passed"?

And I know that you will not mind just one more....Please comment on the involvement of former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali's involvement with selling arms to the Hutu's which were used to kill thousands of Tutsi's in Rwanda and why did you choose to ignore this genocide?

Caller awaits a reply

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Dr. Mr. Annan(oyance),

I've solved all of the problems in the region afflicted and that we wish to attack for terrorism:

GLASS 'EM

Sincerely, The Hawks of America

[slimer]

"Anus to address US public in PBS Town Hall meeting"

Sounds like a good theory for mutant evolution.

[Captain7seas]

See #94

[nonliberal]

Kofi Anus shoud swim his ass back to Ghana!!

[freedomnews]

did bush run to United Nations about the U.S. Air Strikes on Pakistan Bases go listen to post 23

[Jaded]

I think I'll be cleaning the bathroom then, it'll be more fun.