Brace yourself. During a break Gen. McCaffrey on MSNBC was appalled at the statements coming out of the UN, including Blix. More inspectors was the call of the day, and Blix, as McCaffrey noted--as well as we freepers--implied that Powell was deceptive in his presentation last week. Saying that the pictures of trucks, for example, could have been taken weeks apart.
He said there is no evidence that Iraq was aware of which site would be visited by inspectors ahead of time.
France and Russia both received APPLAUSE. Both called for continued inspections, but France took the cake, referring to the UN as a temple and saying war could be averted if only the inspectors could be allowed to find and destroy the weapons that may be there.
There were calls for intelligence to be given to inspectors to aid them in their mission (they still think it is a scavenger hunt).
Oh! And South Africa was cited as a model of disarmament, and Blix was pleased that they have offered, and Iraq has accepted, their help in learning how to disarm.
Powell was not pleased, perhaps someone else could summarize his statement as my head is swimming after recounting the above. I do recall that Powell said disarming was not "brain surgery" and that "even" South Africa had achieved it (swat).
The chickens of the infantile foreign policy blowhardism of Rumsfeld and Bush are coming home to roost--with a vengeance.
The United States is being held up to open scorn and mockery in, of all places, the United Nations--that notorious cesspool of scum and villiany. The most wonderful Nation in the world is being chastized, sometimes openly, sometimes subtextually, by the entire Old World.
How did we come to this? For those of us who love our country it is infuriating. We have a political class whose Left wing openly despises us; and whose Right wing---the wing in question here on FreeRepublic--thinks that dangerous, complex foreign policy should be conducted like a high school pep rally with public insults and taunts openly shouted at the governments and populations of countries whose histories predate our own by centuries.
No matter what the Bush Administration does about Iraq now, it is the beginning of the end of his Presidency. This shellacing in the UN will embolden the Democrats here at home---more sickening collateral damage.
But hey! Everybody on FreeRepublic had a lot of fun shouting "cheese-eating surrender monkeys", so it's all worth it---right?