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.

[MadIvan]

If Iraqi intelligence has penetrated DU, then it shows again the utter stupidity of the regime. The best that DU can do is rouse some hippies who haven't used underarm deodorant since the Nixon Administration, haven't had an original thought since Che Guevara became worm food, and haven't held a job since random drug testing was introduced. Not exactly the movers and shakers in America.

Regards, Ivan

[Bob]

CNBC just pointed out that the French ambassador started speaking at 12:40 at which point the Dow turned. Coincidence? Perhaps so, perhaps not. Uncertainty sure doesn't seem good for the markets.

[Freedom2specul8]

Senator kennedy is getting ready to respond..

[Howlin]

Yes, it was! Good memory.

The combover guy said Bill Clinton declared Iraq FREE of WMD, chemical and biological!

[Humidston]

BILL AND HILL *KNEW* BUT COVERED IT UP BECAUSE THEY'RE CORRUPT!

[fightinJAG]

(Powell having to be civil during the follow-up luncheon)

Isn't this what rescue rings are for?

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

For some reason, I don't like Shep and I can't really pinpoint why.

He seems like the kind of guy who would be equally at home on one of those info-tainment shows like "A Current Affair" or "Entertainment Tonight". Could that be what you're thinking of?

[mhking]

And of course Bubba's the most objective person in their world, right? Oh, this is priceless - and I'm not even able to hear any of it (exiled behind a firewall).

[Tamzee]

No need to punish yourself like that...


Good one :) It is brutal going over that and seeing how absolutely programmed and in denial those folks are... it is literally painful to me.

[txradioguy]

Exerpt of the reply by Iraq to the presentation of evidence to day to the U.N.:


"Your mother was a Hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

[KnutCase]

DU is a total waste of time .....consider yourself fortunate.

[It's me]

There you go! Yes, that's it. He doesn't seem to be strong enough.

Kinda like no "gravitas."

[fightinJAG]

Or The Ruttles.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

If someones investment strategy hangs on what the French say, then they shouldn't be in the market or allowed to hold sharp objects.

[Nataku X]

DU...

[r9etb]

Not exactly the movers and shakers in America.

True. However, they're the same useful idiots of whom the KGB made such good use during the Cold War. The idea is to get these folks out into the streets for the cameras, and thus the nightly news audience, to see.

The idea is to promote the idea of "reasonable disagreements," and moral equivalence between the good guys and the bad guys.

[luv2ndamend]

You think you can add scotty boy to this picture?

Family Man Saddam

He butchered his two daughters' husbands His eldest son Udai, standing, beat to death one of his father's closest aides in front of Susan Mubarak, wife of Egypt's president All in all, a great family.

[fightinJAG]

(stamping feet REALLY HARD)

[A Citizen Reporter]

Sometimes all the analogies to WWII in this scenario are amazing.

I was just watching a show on the history channel last night, about the lead up to WWII. They aired an appeasement speech that Ole Joe Kennedy made as ambassador to the UK, really ticking off Churchill as he was trying to make the case against Hitler. (Shortly after Joe was removed as ambassador.) No War for Ole Joe, No War for swimmer Teddy.

[Smedley]

Ritter is currently in Japan, trying to stir up anti-American sentiment. Said when we attack Iraq, before the end of the month, tha No Korea will take advantage of our military being engaged and will strike Japan. ...

I suppose Scott is topping off the gas tanks to North Korean Jeeps as we speak.