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.

[CavScoutNC]

The UN is akin to the former League of Nations. Impotent, illegitimate rules that stifle democracy and those who defend it. It's time to boot the UN out of the US.

Remember that the UN will never support the US and can never be trusted.

[Z-28]

This obfuscation in the UN by the EU proves that the EU is the new surrogate Soviet Union, and should be watched closely.

[PatrioticAmerican]

That would be some pretty big caojones for Bush and Powell. Now, can we get them to stand up to the commies in America?

[hopespringseternal]

This would be a VERY BAD IDEA, because if we leave, we can't exercise our veto, and all sorts of anti-American and anti-Israeli mischief will be passed.

Without the US, the UN doesn't have the will, the funding, or the military to do squat. Let them mandate that the sun rise in the west and rain fall only on mondays for all the effect any of their pronouncements will have.

[ewing]

Are you ready to apologize for calling Dubya a liberal Republican now??

This President is awesome, with Karl Rove he is unbeatable...

[ysoitanly]

Agree 100%. Move 'em out to some despot's hellhole where they won't have to pay their parking tickets there either, because there's no place to park. Can you imagine the money we would save by jettisoning this irrelevancy?

[CFC__VRWC]

Please God, please God, please God let this be true! Walk out of the UN, Mr. President, and tell 'em they got 30 days to haul their corrupt, tin-pot, dictator-smooching asses out of our country. After they're gone, blow up the building.

I've never been to NYC in my life - I swear, if we did this I would make a special trip there just to piss on the rubble.

[Z-28]

no MOABs on D-Day 1944 either ,,, lol

[FreedomCalls]

This would be a VERY BAD IDEA, because if we leave, we can't exercise our veto, and all sorts of anti-American and anti-Israeli mischief will be passed.

Kind of like all the anti-American stuff the League of Nations is currently passing?

Without the U.S. (and more importantly the U.S. funding) the U.N. will wither and die (like the League of Nations).

[boltCutter]

Brouhhhh ha ha ha ha!!!!!!

Bush is shaping up to be a real conservative legend!!!

[ewing]

But we wouldn't be backing out all together, just temporarily suspending our own participation.

[Z-28]

Best speech in GW's career was tonight IMHO.

[madrastex]

I wonder what country would "take" the UN off our hands! lol ...
How many stupid countries are there?Especially when they discover the SOB's don't have a dime?Time to disband the UN.

[harpo11]

Simply smashing idea. Whether this is true or not, President Bush is succeeding in turning the UN into a mass of moldering nincompoops incapable of fulfilling their charter.

[L,TOWM]

Of course, we were'nt fighting people that were looking for reporters to surrender to either (until April of '45).

[ewing]

This is a ploy worthy of the Reagan legacy...Theatening to walk out on the UN..can you imagine the reaction of Blather, Jennings, et al

[mathurine]

IMHO the UN should first be made to go an operate in Jerusalem. If it survives and does any good there, put it in the Korean DMZ. If it survives and does any good there, put it in Rhodesia or whatever they call that now-- and so forth. Why should all these peace-lovers and do-gooders be living high off the hog in NYC when they should be making peace in assorted miserable places while eating c-rations.Rich and famous missionaries is what the UN wants to be. None of this down and dirty stuff for that UN lot-- that's what they've got the US for!

[F16Fighter]

"Actually, I think we should stay in in order to veto everything. No telling what they will do without us to veto"

Ya know what? You're right -- but have to make a few changes...

First we'll appoint Bob Dornan the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N....

However, the UN's "new" location will be moved to an empty tattered warehouse somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. (Sorry Bob ;-)

This could be fun.

[Frohickey]

Okay, the President has the power to make Treaties, with the advice and consent of the Senate if 2/3rds of the Senate concurs. That means 67 senators.

What about breaking treaties?

[RobbyS]

Today the German Army would be unable successfully to invade Poland. That tells you something about the international weight of one of the richest countries in the world.