Powell Speech to UN Live Thread

[Support Free Republic]

Might as well start up the live thread. Speech starts at 10:30 EST (scheduled), which is within the hour.

[CaptainJustice]

Go Freep! The pics are much appreciated! They will be circulating my office all day today! w00t!

[cyncooper]

Powell done.

Chinese foreign minister up now. Offers condolences on Columbia in his opening statement.

Views on Iraq: All parties attach importance to Security Council.

China welcomes the US move to provide their evidence of the WMD and Iraq which assists in transparency.

[Constitution Day]

[Poohbah]

Saddam gets a pager message:

"Yo, Saddam, put your head between your legs and kiss your a## good-bye!"

[lainie]

I wonder what shirt Sheryl Crow will make now?

My Head Is In The Sand

[My back yard]

I am just waiting for someone to argue back that , 'Well, there's your evidence right there that Saddam is not lying and in compliance with the UN-- he has removed all the bad stuff now, so what is the problem??'!

[twyn1]

What he's said today is ugly -- but it will get uglier -- be prepared -- I have already heard reports of Iraq "freezing" dead children/babies to use for propaganda -- they will scatter these bodies where ever a bomb goes astray -- we could have higher military casualties than the first Gulf War -- our media & the foriegn press will hammer us oer things like these

[The Vast Right Wing]

This will be about as exciting and of as much relevance as the Dims rebuttal to the State of the Union address.

Is Gary Locke giving the rebuttal for China?

[Dog]

What is the deal with China??

[Registered]

If I were the Chinese guy, I would make sure I had the voice of a Chinese guy! Not the girl's voice that we hear now!

[prairiebreeze]

trying to say everybody thinks Security council is VERRRRY important

china welcomes US move to provide this evidence to UN

they want various parties to hand over evidence to unmovic and IAEA--to help them with their inspections (gag)

inspections going on for over 2 months---it is there view they aren't in position to draw conclusion and should continue and we should support that (gag)

[smith288]

Tang speaks

[justshe]

China supports the continuation of the inspectors.

[NautiNurse]

China's response---this is a biggie---

omg---they support more inspections??

[BlueLancer]

"We're going to have to kill half the people in the world before this is over. There are too many of them and they will never stop as long as they live, so they'll have to be killed. It's them or us."

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200 years from now, I want their children's children's children's children
to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead
because their legends tell of fire from the sky.

I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth,
shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines
because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters
crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.

I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with
"If you don't behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you",
and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obesience.

I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology
will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea
.. the powerful 'Mericans .. destroyed their forefathers' wickedness.

(Original created by BlueLancer ... 13 September 2001)
(Thanks to HiJinx for the accompanying pictures)

Kill them all ... nits make lice.
(COL Chivington, Sand Creek)

[lainie]

Well yeah, but this isn't the SOTU or anything internal.

[abnegation]

UK ambassador to talk also after the Chinese ambassador...AKA Mr. Excitement.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

China wants source info, of course. We can't name names, of course. The leaders of the world will have to decide who they trust: Saddam, or the USA!

[cibco]

"How does an Army lieutenant dig a hole: answer: "Sergeant, take some privates and go dig a hole""

You forgot the part where the LT first has to ask the SGT, "What is a hole?" ;0)

[chnsmok]

china for more inspections!