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Africa: North
Libya says 'wise man' Bill Clinton should resolve world's wars
2004-09-30
Libya on Wednesday offered some colourful ideas for reforming the United Nations, including moving the General Assembly to Geneva and letting Bill Clinton resolve the world's conflicts and wars.
Bwahahaha!!!!
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, never shy about putting forward visionary proposals, also wants his nation to have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, Libyan Foreign Minister Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalghem said. "The past 59 years have proven that the General Assembly is merely a decorative body without a soul," Shalghem said as Libya took the podium at the annual United Nations debate of world leaders which concludes this week.
He noticed
He said key powers invested in the 15-nation Security Council, such as the legal authority for military action, should be transferred to the assembly, which groups all 191 UN member states. "If this cannot be accomplished, we have no choice but to abandon the General Assembly and stop infusing money into this dead body," Shalghem said. He also said Kadhafi wanted to see next year's session, on the 60th anniversary of the UN's founding, held in Geneva instead of at the UN headquarters in New York so that "all world leaders" can attend. The implication was that Kadhafi would not want to visit the United States, a frequent sparring partner of his regime in Tripoli.
We have a standing offer to help them move.
Kadhafi also wants the establishment of a "committee of wise men" to settle the world's conflicts and called on the United Nations to pass a resolution in support of his idea, Shalghem said. The committee would be comprised of three former presidents -- Clinton of the United States, Mikhail Gorbachev of the now-defunct Soviet Union and Nelson Mandela from South Africa.
He left out Jimmey Carter.....that's right, he did say "wise men".

All world leaders approve of the proposal, Shalghem said.
Must be those same world leaders Kerry keeps talking to.
He added that Kadhafi's future ideas would be posted on the Libyan leader's website, www.algathafi.org. The site offers suggestions for solving some of the world's thorniest conflicts, including the creation of a unified state of Israel and Palestine to be called "Isratine."
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#56  What do you expect from a Harrisburg Area Community College ? Deep in the woods of PA, the students are either already in the job market and seeking to improve themselves or, like dear little ctfuller, not smart enough to go to a real college. A member of the first category wouldn't have wasted his/her time on little ct's tactics, and anyway would have known enough to cover his tracks. I wonder if ct's mommy knows what it does when its supposed to be studying?
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-09-30 8:16:59 PM  

#55  Hmmm. According to HACC's nameserver, it doesn't exist:

Dig 44.212.254.199.in-addr.arpa@dns1.hacc.edu (199.254.212.21) ...
Authoritative Answer
Recursive queries supported by this server
Authoritative answer: Host doesn't exist
Query for 44.212.254.199.in-addr.arpa type=255 class=1
212.254.199.in-addr.arpa SOA (Zone of Authority)
Primary NS: dns1.hacc.edu
Responsible person: administrator@hacc.edu
serial:2004040901
refresh:28800s (8 hours)
retry:7200s (2 hours)
expire:604800s (7 days)
minimum-ttl:86400s (24 hours)

Or else they don't have a reverse table set up. Amateurs.
Posted by: mojo   2004-09-30 5:49:43 PM  

#54  Is the Daffidifidous one making another rambling speech, sounding as though he got a whiff of fermented camel dung?

Enquiring minds want to know...

He left out Jimmy Carter...

Oh yeah there was a president between 1-20-97 and 1-20-81. I forgot... Somebody did live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave...

As you see DAFFY is still top banana
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-30 5:38:39 PM  

#53  Aw hell, it's a class see, ban the range.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-09-30 5:37:00 PM  

#52  Rilly Dumschitz, a freshman, taking remedial COMP-101 (Our Friend the Internet).

You know our Fred has a little vicious streak, thank goodness for modern chemistry.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-09-30 5:35:19 PM  

#51  HACC, locally pronounced HACK, has produced a low grade wannabe hacker. Congrats toSilicon Floodplain.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-09-30 4:54:06 PM  

#50  I've joked in the past about how he's waiting for someone else to come along and promote him, but I've heard the real reason he sticks with it is that it's the rank Nasser had when he took power.
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2004-09-30 3:52:34 PM  

#49  Why Qaddafi is still a colonel...still no explanantion why he can't choose one definitive spelling of his name in English .
Posted by: Seafarious   2004-09-30 3:46:30 PM  

#48  Ever wonder why "Colonel" Kha-det-fly is still a Colonel after all these years??? Why don't he promote himself? I guess it depends on what is am.
Posted by: Flagum Whagum2419   2004-09-30 3:39:37 PM  

#47  So it turns out that "R-Burg" is at a regional institution of higher learning. A call to Betsy Oswald would probably reveal that the perpetrator is named something like Rilly Dumschitz, a freshman, taking remedial COMP-101 (Our Friend the Internet).
Posted by: Fred   2004-09-30 3:23:07 PM  

#46   Server Used: [ whois.arin.net ]

199.254.212.44 = [ ]

OrgName: Harrisburg Area Community College
OrgID: HACC
Address: 1 HACC Dr.
City: Harrisburg
StateProv: PA
PostalCode: 17110
Country: US
NetRange: 199.254.212.0 - 199.254.212.255
CIDR: 199.254.212.0/24
NetName: HACC
NetHandle: NET-199-254-212-0-1
Parent: NET-199-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: DNS1.HACC.EDU
NameServer: NS-1.EPIX.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 1994-10-31
Updated: 1998-10-21
TechHandle: BO38-ARIN
TechName: Oswald Betsy
TechPhone: 1-717-780-1929
TechEmail: ctfuller@hacc.edu
Posted by: Memesis   2004-09-30 2:48:32 PM  

#45  Yeah, Rafael, I'm disappointed too.

But, based on Mandela's speech quoted above, I have a suggestion: Forget Geneva, let's move the UN to Cape Town.

Why not? They're both on the fringe.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-09-30 2:25:45 PM  

#44  Damn. And I thought there were 43 real comments. This post has the potential to be in the classics.
Posted by: Rafael   2004-09-30 1:34:50 PM  

#43  no match in whois for 199.254.212.44
Posted by: Frank G   2004-09-30 12:49:47 PM  

#42  R-Burg's back too. Once is usually enough in comments.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-09-30 12:44:40 PM  

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#14  how would bill do it ? By paying everyone in the world off.
Posted by: smokeysinse   2004-09-30 12:22:48 PM  

#13  Ah lahk ya plan, Dar. Matter of fact, ah got a gusher ah can show you raht now.
Posted by: Former President William Jefferson Clinton   2004-09-30 12:22:19 PM  

#12  Ah, he's still got the touch. His name is not G'Daffy for nothing. Let Slick Willie and Co take over the UN and have our funding drop linearly to zero in, say a 5 year span. That gives the UN time to move to location of their choice---far from US shores.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-09-30 11:52:16 AM  

#11  We're pulling for you, Bill.
Posted by: OLF (Organization of Libyan Floozies)   2004-09-30 11:01:47 AM  

#10  "...and that, children, was the beginning of the great Blows Jobs for Oil program."
Posted by: Dar   2004-09-30 10:56:26 AM  

#9  Better yet, send the UN to Tripoli. Slick Willie would enjoy the action there.
Posted by: SR-71   2004-09-30 10:11:21 AM  

#8  Chicks dig peacemakers... or was it pacemakers?
Posted by: tu3031   2004-09-30 9:57:46 AM  

#7  I still think we should stick the U.N. in the center of the biggest mass grave in Iraq.

With Bill as Sec. General we will have get a intern-for-food program.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-09-30 9:49:52 AM  

#6  Rantburg Archives, dateline 1/30/2003 -- Speaking at the International Women's Forum, Mandela said "if there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America."

The idea of shipping the U.N. and Clinton to Geneva appeals to me. Let's throw in Hillary, the Carters, the Gores, and the sKerry's as a going away present.
Posted by: Tom   2004-09-30 9:47:23 AM  

#5  I could see these morons nominating Bill C for Kofi's job when his term is up. He'd take it in a second to try and get that Nobel he wants so bad - legacy time....
Posted by: Frank G   2004-09-30 9:44:32 AM  

#4  I always rub on Isratine when my lumbago's acting up...
Posted by: Fred   2004-09-30 9:37:10 AM  

#3  That's not a fountain...that's a broken sewer pipe.
Posted by: Anonymous6700   2004-09-30 9:36:53 AM  

#2  Maybe they should hold UN's 60th Anniversary session in Tripoli. Libya has truly become a fountain of enlightened thought.
Posted by: TomAnon   2004-09-30 9:33:44 AM  

#1  "Isratine" Hmmm. Sounds to me like a kosher version of ovaltine.
You gotta give Goofy credit where it's due: he's still the nuttiest guy out there (and boy, is he out there:)
Posted by: Spot   2004-09-30 9:23:37 AM  

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