U.S. May announce "temporary" suspension of U.N. membership if war veto

http://www.instapundit.com ^ | 3/6/03 | Stephen Pollard

[Baron von Smash]

...Stephen Pollard writes in The Telegraph that the U.S. (and Britain?) may stage a U.N. walkout if the obstructionists carry the day at the Security Council:

Well-connected advisers tell me that if, as now seems likely, the UN refuses to back action against terror, Mr Bush will announce a "temporary" suspension of America's membership, to be accompanied by an offer: if the UN gets its act together and carries out long-overdue reforms, America (and its money) will return. But if there is no reform, the temporary withdrawal will, de facto, become permanent.

[lawgirl]

I can't believe it!!!!!!

I remember last year when I heard people on FR say the US should get out of the UN and I always thought "yeah right it will never happen." They might be right!

[justshe]

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[TSgt]

Don't that just knock yer hat in the creek!

[Samwise]

"Elendil! I am Aragorn son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dúnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!"

-Aragorn, upon meeting Éomer, The Two Towers

[SierraWasp]

Where's that graphic of the little kid peeing on Fords, or Chevys? We need one of him peeing on the Useless Nuisance (UN)!!!

[holymoly]

The U.N. should have been weaned from the tit of the American tax payer years ago.

I pray this report is correct.

[polemikos]

Temporary?

[Davea]

Great a 2 for. Iraq and the UN.

[feedback doctor]

So now we have the answer as to why the President took it to the uN, so we could see them for what they are, and are not. Now he will have support to dump the idiots and ask them to leave. W keeps amazing me!!!!

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Well-connected advisers tell me that if, as now seems likely, the UN refuses to back action against terror, Mr Bush will announce a "temporary" suspension of America's membership, to be accompanied by an offer: if the UN gets its act together and carries out long-overdue reforms, America (and its money) will return. But if there is no reform, the temporary withdrawal will, de facto, become permanent."

WOW! I only hope it's true.

[Z-28]

we should remain in the UN just to see and hear what the enemy is planning.

[Z-28]

we should remain in the UN just to see and hear what the enemy is planning.

[catfur]

Please let this be true; but make it a permanent withdrawal.

Give the current residents one week to vacate with US Marshals at the ready to oversee the eviction.

[Z-28]

we should remain in the UN just to see and hear what the enemy is planning.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

But if there is no reform, the temporary withdrawal will, de facto, become permanent.

Please, oh please, oh please...

[Cosmo]

To tell the truth, I've thought, for some time, that many in the international community are hoping this will happen.

[rintense]

Temporary??? Screw that!

Make it permanent.

[mrb1960]

I concur

[nononsense]

Pack those devils up and send them to old Europe. Any suggestions on what the government should do with the money that it gives to the UN? A tax cut would be nice.

[Frohickey]

Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! DO IT!!!