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2006-05-17 International-UN-NGOs
Asia’s bid for top UN post may face US challenge
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Posted by ryuge 2006-05-17 11:27|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 A woman in charge of the UN would send the Muzzies into a frothing rage. Hehe, I say we do it just to piss them off!
Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-17 11:33||   2006-05-17 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Could anybody they pick possibly be worse then Kofi?
Posted by tu3031 2006-05-17 11:39||   2006-05-17 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Could anyone be worse than Kofi? Yes. Bill Clinton is said to want the job.
Posted by Iblis">Iblis  2006-05-17 12:09||   2006-05-17 12:09|| Front Page Top

#4 If its an asian
make it a woman
from burma
who has been harassed and jailed forever...
Posted by 3dc 2006-05-17 12:14||   2006-05-17 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 I like 3dc's suggestion.

I also like the idea of picking a North American, perhaps a Canadian. I don't think Australia/New Zealand ever got a shot either. It's continental discrimination, that's what it is.
Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz  2006-05-17 13:22||   2006-05-17 13:22|| Front Page Top

#6 I hear Hirsi Ali might be available...

That would put the muzzies in a twit!
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-05-17 13:32||   2006-05-17 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freberga had escaped to, and was trained in the US, and only went back to help the old country when they became democratic. Very pro-US, very professional, a good candidate.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-17 14:45||   2006-05-17 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Put Condi on one of those ballots.
Posted by Mike N. 2006-05-17 14:57||   2006-05-17 14:57|| Front Page Top

#9 My picks for Secretary-General are:
1) Kim Jong Il - N. Korea
2) Almondinejihad - Iran
3) Bob Mugabe - Zimbobia

If the UN is going to be irrelevant and useless, let it be comically and totally irrelevant and useless.
Posted by SteveS 2006-05-17 16:10||   2006-05-17 16:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Polish politicians have also been mentioned. But as with the Latvian president, UN diplomats said Russia would not feel comfortable looking up to one of its former vassals for political guidance.

Anyone else rubbed the wrong way by this sentiment? Anyone else think the "UN diplomats" are essentially bowing to the idea that Russia's imperialism was OK-fine, and that its end was a disaster?
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-05-17 16:18|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-05-17 16:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Downer, Howard, or Chen Shui-bian.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-17 16:48||   2006-05-17 16:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Chen Shui-bian - ahhh - NO!
Ask a KMT person about Chen Shui-bian's business history. He could make Kofi look honest.
Posted by 3dc 2006-05-17 20:03||   2006-05-17 20:03|| Front Page Top

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