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2004-11-18 International-UN-NGOs
US targets Annan over Iraq criticism
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Posted by Fred 2004-11-18 11:33:00 PM|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Good. As with the idiotically belated WaPo realization that Iran might be developing a nuke missile (duh!), people in the US are waking up to the disaster and resource black hole that is the UN.

Some day, perhaps a couple of years from now, there will be sufficient force behind the realization to act. To design a replacement that makes sense and learns from Grand International Union Mistake #2.

We can do it right, eventually, but we have to quit betting our money, resources, and good will on another losing hand. Gotta know when to fold 'em.
Posted by .com 2004-11-18 12:48:58 AM||   2004-11-18 12:48:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 About Time! Annan has this insatiable propensity at worrying about lone insurgent mistreatments, and turning a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of Africans that cry out for his (UN) interdiction! Come to think of it...I have never seen him sweat!
Posted by smn 2004-11-18 1:09:46 AM||   2004-11-18 1:09:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#3  Typical cow pie material...

MSM, Arabs, and UN: "We have no security in Iraq!"

A mission to kill the scum bags begins....

MSM, Arabs, and UN "We must stop the fighting immediately!"

Mission successfully ends and a car bomb goes off elsewhere....

MSM, Arabs, and UN: "We have no security in Iraq!"

Solutions offered (MSM, Arabs, UN).....

...........Hey! Look over there a pretty bird!

Everyone is concerned about a Marine shooting a wounded insurgent (who supposedly want to die anyways) under uncertain combat conditions. Even though the day before or the same day a Marine was wounded after a body of an insurgent was booby trapped.

Yet, kidnap and shoot a helpless 59 year old CARE aid worker in the back of the head (in the proudest tradtion of "brave" Mooselimb "warriors" and you get nothing. Not from the MSM, the UN, CARE, or the Arabs.

Asshats.

Hey Coffee Ann Ann, how you and Voelker coming along with those oil for food documents anyway? Oh say hi to your son JoJo for us. I hear he fell into a great deal of cash for his (Cough, cough) hard work.



Posted by 98zulu 2004-11-18 2:36:21 AM||   2004-11-18 2:36:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, Dr. Condolezza Rice gets moved to State last week, and the White House starts being openly dismissive of the UN this week.

Coincidence?

I think not.

Condi! Condi! Condi!
Posted by Ptah  2004-11-18 9:32:42 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2004-11-18 9:32:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 
If the Bush Administration intends to undermine Kofi Annan, then it will be in for a very rude surprise when the UN elects his successor, who will be much more hostile to the USA than Kofi Annan is.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-11-18 10:00:07 AM||   2004-11-18 10:00:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 That sounds remarkably like a threat of extortion.
Posted by Jules 187 2004-11-18 10:09:37 AM||   2004-11-18 10:09:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Is Mike Sylwester RB's resident tranzi?
Posted by Psycho Hillbilly 2004-11-18 10:54:09 AM||   2004-11-18 10:54:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 If an election were to be held today to decide if the US should leave the UN, what would the results be?
I know it is just a dream, but would it not be wonderful if Americans were to vote to leave the most inefficient and corrupt organization in the world?
Posted by Anonymous4724 2004-11-18 11:01:49 AM||   2004-11-18 11:01:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 If the Bush Administration intends to undermine Kofi Annan, then it will be in for a very rude surprise when the UN elects his successor, who will be much more hostile to the USA than Kofi Annan is.

Just so you know, the UN doesn't have any God-given right to U.S dollars.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-18 11:08:57 AM||   2004-11-18 11:08:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 a very rude surprise when the UN elects his successor, who will be much more hostile to the USA
You could be right, I hear Clinton wants Kofi's job!
Posted by bitter pill 2004-11-18 11:12:22 AM||   2004-11-18 11:12:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 If the UN intends to alienate the US, then it will be in for a very rude surprise when the US withdraws. We saw how well that works with the League of Nations.

It will also be very interesting to see the US fail to veto a more hostile GS than Kofi, especially as W will still be president in '06.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-18 11:31:08 AM||   2004-11-18 11:31:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 I would not be surprised if Clinton begins to lobby for the job. Not a bad choice, all in all.

In any case I'd bet there's now a task force or two within the Bush admin working on setting up a parallel group or organization that will make the UNSC completely irrelevant. Probably a US and Asia-centered group of twelve or so nations, with European representation limited to three: UK, EU rep, Russia.
Posted by lex 2004-11-18 11:53:12 AM||   2004-11-18 11:53:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 If the Bush Administration intends to undermine Kofi Annan, then it will be in for a very rude surprise when the UN elects his successor, who will be much more hostile to the USA than Kofi Annan is.


Hey Mike:

Yeah, I'm shaking in my boots at all the STERNLY worded letters that are soon to follow.

Fuck the UN, fuck Kofi, and fuck you for being their self-appointed little girl.
Posted by Crusader 2004-11-18 12:08:16 PM||   2004-11-18 12:08:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "But White House officials are saying the United Nations is drifting towards irrelevance and are developing a dismissive attitude towards Annan, according to a senior US official at the UN."

Maybe we can dismiss Koffee like we did Arafish? We saw what happened with him once he wasn't getting as much press (at least before his death).
Posted by BA  2004-11-18 1:16:27 PM||   2004-11-18 1:16:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Somehow I really doubt that Khatami could be any more anti-American than Kofi. Khatami's just more honest about it. Kofi has the better wardrobe and doesn't shout.
I mean, really, why not? Libya's on the Human Rights commission at the UN, aren't they?
Better yet.....how about Jimmy Carter for UN leader? Why not the worst ex-prez?
Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-11-18 2:04:01 PM||   2004-11-18 2:04:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Dessrt Blondie,
NO, NO ,NO
Puleeze, not Jimmah
I cant stand the thought.......
He is the reason why I stopped eating peanut butter sandwiches cuz I was afraid one of Jimmah's peanuts may find it's way into my sandwich !
Posted by Elder of zion 2004-11-18 2:20:46 PM||   2004-11-18 2:20:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Colin Powell should be Kofi's replacement. We should inist on it.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2004-11-18 2:38:10 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-11-18 2:38:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Pic caption:

"Want to come back to my place later?..."
Posted by mojo  2004-11-18 3:12:52 PM||   2004-11-18 3:12:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 ...who will be much more hostile to the USA than Kofi Annan is.

So much the better. It's about time we all put our cards on the table. In words definitely and deeds most likely, the Kofi Annans and Jacques Chiracs are objectively our foes.

We just had an election where one of the salient issues was whether we were willing to go down the warpath alone or if we needed to bring our "allies" along with us or ask their permission to act. Seems to me the American electorate has spoken:

With friends like these, we don't need enemies.
Posted by Dreadnought 2004-11-18 5:08:29 PM||   2004-11-18 5:08:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 
Re #8 (Anonymous4724): If an election were to be held today to decide if the US should leave the UN, what would the results be?

About the same as if an election were to be held today to decide whether Patrick Buchanan should be President of the USA.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-11-18 9:45:37 PM||   2004-11-18 9:45:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 If the Bush Administration intends to undermine Kofi Annan, then it will be in for a very rude surprise when the UN elects his successor, who will be much more hostile to the USA than Kofi Annan is.

Okay, criticism of, and frustration with, the UN Secretary General is now called 'undermining'.

As to Mr. Annan's successor: a more hostile one will be elected, regardless of what the Bush Administration does or does not do. No rude surprise there.
Posted by Pappy 2004-11-18 9:52:33 PM||   2004-11-18 9:52:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 I dunno about that, Mike. It been getting pretty obvious that the UN has outlived it's design criteria - that ended with the cold war. An org designed to do nothing and take it's time about it is pretty damn useless anymore, however good a brake it used to be in the superpower staredown.
Posted by mojo  2004-11-18 9:54:11 PM||   2004-11-18 9:54:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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