Rumsfeld also criticized the United Nations for making Iraq the head of the U.N. Commission on Disarmament and Libya the head of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights."An institution that, with the support or acquiescence of many of the nations represented in this room, would permit" this to happen "seems not to be even struggling to regain credibility," he said with a tone of incredulity.
"That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking."
LOL. The Euroweenies have no idea how to deal with real men.
LOL, up next: North Korea as head of the UN Commission for nuclear disarmamnet.
That would be the "peace" of the embassy bombings, the attack on the USS Cole and September 11th?
The future of NATO rides on whether or not Germany, France, and Belgium block Turkey's request for NATO protection.
If those countries block it, NATO is dead as an alliance. It will also indicate that no UN Resolution authorizing force will pass.
It is incredible to me that these nations would sacrifice NATO in order to protect Saddam Hussein, but that's what it's coming down to.
Europe will either fracture on Monday, or it will decide to follow the US lead and do the right thing.
Monday is a decisive day in world history.
"That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking."
There you go again, Don, expecting moral integrity out of socialists. When are we gonna learn?
Socialists worship bureaucracy and procedure and accept the consequences as part of the deal because they ferverently belive that NO ONE can be trusted. These same people simultaneously use that corrupt system of centralized command and control to influence world events to their individual advantage.
Thus, the predisposition of Eurogag diplomats and their State Department wannabes, to the bureaucratic socialism so epitomized by the UN, is more a reflection on their own lack of integrity than anything else.
So what's new? The socialists in France and Germany have always had "calculated self-intetrests" and a large part of the time, they've been in direct opposition to US interests.
>>>Rumsfeld also criticized the United Nations for making Iraq the head of the U.N. Commission on Disarmament and Libya the head of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
The UN has little credibility left. Time to close up shop and move to France or Germany.
"That these acts of irresponsibility could happen now, at this moment in history, is breathtaking."
No kidding. The UN is a joke and it's high time the US say so.
He should know.
I meant to add something about the pot calling the kettle black............
To find nothing.
The Dutch have already faithfully responded to Turkey's request and will send at the end of next week three (of the country's four) Patriot systems and 370 soldiers to man them.
At the end of the week, the acting Prime Minister called the inspections a "foolish game" (or something like that; I can't remember the Dutch phrase), while the Foreign Affairs Minister was in D.C. with Powell to discuss the details US's request for military cooperation.
Wasn't that Neville Chamberlin's line in 1939?
So9
Newsflash: Those ain't no allies, Mr. Burns.
I just love the Freudian-slip wording on that one. It sounds like, "a military campaign is the logical course, but we must not do what's logical".
According to the Middle East/ Terrorism analyst on FNC, Monsoor...something, the French have $80 billion worth of oil contracts with Saddam so they have essentially been bought...and that there was a bust in France several months ago with an el Qaeda/ ricin link to the recent busts in England...all connected back to Saddam....he said that Chirac is covering up this information...he also said that Schroeder knows that Germany was involved in supplying Saddam with chemical agents that are part of the chemical weapons stockpile and does not want this untidy little fact uncovered...
glad to see McCain coming out...along with Lieberman they have effectively shielded President Bush from the 'war for oil' accusations of the left...BTW Tony Snow essentailly said that France's oil contracts means that the anti-war movement is really about oil LOL!