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2004-09-18 International-UN-NGOs
Iran to back Khatami for top UN post
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Posted by tipper 2004-09-18 11:12:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 No problem. That much more justification for the U.S. quitting and sending the U.N. to France. sKerry can move to France and have the job after Mohammad.
Posted by Tom 2004-09-18 11:23:36 AM||   2004-09-18 11:23:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think Khatami may be a little busy in the next few months trying to re-start his nuke program from the ruins.

Or, hopefully, trying to find his pieces-parts.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-09-18 11:26:10 AM||   2004-09-18 11:26:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm all for this. There is no better way on earth to ensure that the UN is forever unmasked as the diplomatic farce and featherbed jobsite that it is today. With Khatami at the helm, this institution's anti-Semitism could finally be formalized and their support for international terrorism made official.

Other than that, I agree with Barbara.
Posted by Zenster 2004-09-18 11:35:35 AM||   2004-09-18 11:35:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Or, hopefully, trying to find his pieces-parts.

Islam is the Religion of Pieces, after all.
Posted by SteveS 2004-09-18 11:39:05 AM||   2004-09-18 11:39:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Works for me. One fox in the chicken coop will eat all the chickens. No more chicken coop. A coop de something or other, so to speak.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-18 12:29:26 PM||   2004-09-18 12:29:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Until Iran, the originators of the modern Islamic terrorism movement is stopped dead cold, the counter-jihadists war in Iraq is sort of like, spraying a can or two of insect repellent in the deepest part of the Amazon, and then expecting to be bitten again.
Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-09-18 1:50:40 PM||   2004-09-18 1:50:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah no, I suggest Saddam. After all we have to compensate him for waging an "illegal" war against his country. He's available, the UN has his bank account numbers already.

Khatami could come in for the next term, after the "illegal" war against Iran... Well he could take El Baradei's job maybe in the meantime.

Zimbabwe Bob could take over as the Human Rights Commissioner although Sudan might have its own aspirations to that job.
Posted by True German Ally 2004-09-18 1:58:53 PM||   2004-09-18 1:58:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Khatami could come in for the next term, after the "illegal" war against Iran... Well he could take El Baradei's job maybe in the meantime.

And I have every confidence he would obtain the exact same results as El Baradei.
Posted by Zenster 2004-09-18 3:11:53 PM||   2004-09-18 3:11:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 In the name of efficiency, another vote for Saddam. Eliminate the middleman's 2.2%.
Posted by lex 2004-09-18 3:28:13 PM||   2004-09-18 3:28:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The Persians are coming! The Persians are coming!

If Khatami becomes Secretary General, the post gives him an excuse to have a larger Iranian entourage around him. And this numerically-enhanced entourage should help him provide the folks back home with great video footage of significant American tourist attractions such as skyscrapers, bridges, tunnels, nuclear power plants, oil refinery complexes and Federal office buildings. This should encourage small bands of Muslim tourists to visit America.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2004-09-18 4:03:19 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2004-09-18 4:03:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 And what would Khatami bring in his suitcase the first time he goes to NYC?

Would the triumvirate Annan, Blix, and ElBaradei stay away?
Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-09-18 5:57:14 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/]  2004-09-18 5:57:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm a BIG beleiver in the world wide targeted assasination of the enemies of the USA. If Khatami wants to come to NY City, I have no problem with that. He'd be eaiser to...uh...deal with... on a local level living in NY City then living in Tehran.
Posted by Mark Z.  2004-09-18 6:32:55 PM||   2004-09-18 6:32:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Alaska Paul-You mean a coop d'etat?

:)
Posted by jules 2 2004-09-18 6:35:46 PM||   2004-09-18 6:35:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 coup da grass, coup da grass.
Posted by Ole snaggle Puss 2004-09-18 7:54:12 PM||   2004-09-18 7:54:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I just can't get out of my mind, an image of Khatami
singing "The Scheme of Thais" at a karaoke venue at the UN.
Posted by tipper 2004-09-18 10:59:51 PM||   2004-09-18 10:59:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Although I expect the next SecGen to come from some innocuous third world garbage heap rather than a controversial state like Iran, India, or Zimbabwe, it would be fun to watch the fallout from a political nuke like this. Perhaps the US would tighten the purse strings and tell the UN that the lease just ran out on that prime Manhattan real estate. Close the NY headquarters, move the parasites to their offices in Geneva and let the Europeans subsidize them instead of us.
Posted by RWV 2004-09-19 12:16:07 AM||   2004-09-19 12:16:07 AM|| Front Page Top

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