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2003-03-27 International

Kofi admits damage to UN over Iraq crisis

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-03-27 02:09 pm|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Doesn't the oil for food game end when Saddam is removed. I think the UN just wants the oil money going through its greedy little hands.

Posted by Yank 3/27/2003 2:43:45 PM|| 3/27/2003 2:43:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Light dawns on Marblehead. What a f**king idiot!

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-27 14:23:44|| 2003-03-27 14:23:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Doesn't the oil for food game end when Saddam is removed. I think the UN just wants the oil money going through its greedy little hands.

Posted by Yank 2003-03-27 14:43:45|| 2003-03-27 14:43:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Using the term 'unilateral' seems to imply the speaker has no clue.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-27 14:51:38|| 2003-03-27 14:51:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Dealing with Kofi is like sending radio signals to a distant galexy: it takes days or weeks to get a signal back. The age of accountability is coming, Kofi, and it will not be business as usual for the UN anymore. There is $40bn or so of the Iraqi people's money in a weasel bank somewhere for the Oil-for-Food Programe and it certainly does not exist as a skimming fund for UN skimocrats.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-03-27 15:15:22|| 2003-03-27 15:15:22|| Front Page Top

#6 He said faith in the United Nations could only be restored if the council worked on specific goals for Iraq, including tapping into billions of dollars in Iraqi oil revenue to finance the emergency aid under the UN oil-for-food program, which is still stalled in the council.

Let there be no more money funneled to the U.N. for anything from Iraq, and let there be no more American money sent in the form of dues. The old oil-for-food program should be declared dead, and humanitarian efforts given to some other responsible organization.

Phuque the U.N.

"All of us must regret that our intense efforts to achieve a peaceful solution through this council did not succeed," he said.

Not only did the UNSC not achieve a peaceful solution, it also failed to respond to Iraqi intransigence in a forceful and determined way. That means it failed on not one but TWO fronts.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-03-27 15:46:42|| 2003-03-27 15:46:42|| Front Page Top

#7 KF never could remember that he was our creature, not to mention that this proves the UN is not an alternate to great power politics.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-03-27 16:27:38|| 2003-03-27 16:27:38|| Front Page Top

#8 I think he used the word "faith" and the United Nations in the same sentence.

The only person that would have faith in the U.N. is someone who has a sack of walnuts for brains.

Posted by Jonesy 2003-03-27 17:14:25|| 2003-03-27 17:14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 "Many people around the world are seriously questioning whether it was legitimate for some member states to proceed to such a fateful action now, an action that has far-reaching consequences well beyond the immediate military dimensions without first reaching a collective decision of this Council," Annan told the council.

Yeah, and many people wonder why the removal of a brutal dictator would require even a vote, much less a drawn-out debate (and a failed one at that!).

Good luck in your next position selling used cars.

Posted by Flaming Sword 2003-03-27 17:33:56|| 2003-03-27 17:33:56|| Front Page Top

#10 "an action that has far-reaching consequences"
For you maybe. The other 90% of the world that isn't in Europe or North America or Australasia (?) could only be slightly worse-off.

Posted by RW 2003-03-27 22:47:51|| 2003-03-27 22:47:51|| Front Page Top

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