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Practically everywhere you look in the operations of the United Nations, you find incredible graft, corruption and disgusting criminal behavior. The time has come to withdraw all support from this organization and let it fall apart – starved of funds. We can find some other use for the buildings and grounds while leaders from the important countries of the world meet to plan a successor organization. Let the United Nations follow the League of Nations into the dustbin of history, as we try again to find a way to resolve the world’s problems peacefully.

MONTREAL -- Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora criticized Canada on Monday for its support of Israel during the recent conflict in the Middle East. After meeting with three Canadian opposition MPs touring Lebanon, Saniora told Radio-Canada that he was particularly upset at Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s declaration that Israel’s bombardment was a “measured response” to the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah. “They could see what a crime the Israelis have made against Lebanon and against humanity,” Saniora said. “This is what you call a measured response?” Saniora said the rest of the world found the action disproportionate and he...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Lebanese prime minister rejected a U.N. cease-fire plan backed by President Bush, demanding on Monday that Israel immediately pull out from southern Lebanon even before a peacekeeping force arrives to act as a buffer between Hezbollah and the Jewish state. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's stand, delivered in a tearful speech to Arab foreign ministers, came on a day in which 49 Lebanese were killed — one of the deadliest days for Lebanese in nearly four weeks of fighting. His Cabinet, which includes two Hezbollah ministers, voted unanimously to send 15,000 troops to stand between Israel and...

BEIRUT (AP)--U.S. President George W. Bush has invited Lebanon's prime minister, but not its president, to a reception in New York next week, a sign that President Emile Lahoud is being isolated internationally as calls rise for his resignation. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has also left Lahoud off the guest list for her reception on the sidelines of next week's U.N. summit, despite her meeting the Lebanese president when she visited Beirut in July, diplomats said. Lebanon's leading newspaper An-Nahar, which opposes the pro-Syrian Lahoud, reported Friday that the Bush administration had withdrawn an invitation to Lahoud. But...