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2004-06-17 Israel-Palestine
UN to Caterpillar: Stop selling bulldozers to Israel
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Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-06-17 7:18:24 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The corker in the article is the passage that threatens Caterpillar with war crimes prosecution.

The U.N. doesn't know it yet, but it really doesn't want to go there. because if they do, guess which nation's industries could be implicated in war crimes in Iraq?

Hint: They eat cheese and they like to surrender a lot.

In the short, sad and ridiculous history of human rights organizations there has never been an attempt to hold any business entity responsible for how its products are used, until now.

Now, with the 'Palestinian' cause in the process being rolled up and cast into it's proper place in the dustbin of history, the UN, trying to regain lost relevence, makes a bizarre nexus between a manufacturer's product and how the product is used.

I do not believe there is any point in trying to fix this broken organization, an enabler of murderers and Marxist theifs. The UN must go.
Posted by badanov  2004-06-17 8:36:19 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2004-06-17 8:36:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 When bulldozers are outlawed, only outlaws will have bulldozers...
Posted by Dar  2004-06-17 9:24:29 AM||   2004-06-17 9:24:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bulldozers - why do they hate us so much?
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-06-17 10:13:40 AM||   2004-06-17 10:13:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Bulldozers don't kill people, only gravity and physics acting on the bulldozer kill people.
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-06-17 10:14:27 AM||   2004-06-17 10:14:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 You'll have to pry my bulldozer from my cold, dead hands.
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-06-17 10:15:01 AM||   2004-06-17 10:15:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-06-17 10:18:44 AM||   2004-06-17 10:18:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 And here I thought it was impossible for the UN to be made to look more ridiculous.

Live and learn, I guess...
Posted by mojo  2004-06-17 10:55:23 AM||   2004-06-17 10:55:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 They need to stop selling bulldozers to those crazed mountain people in Colorado!
Posted by Dozer  2004-06-17 11:51:49 AM||   2004-06-17 11:51:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 "Killdozer"!
Posted by Frank 2004-06-17 12:05:19 PM||   2004-06-17 12:05:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 In the short, sad and ridiculous history of human rights organizations there has never been an attempt to hold any business entity responsible for how its products are used, until now.

True on the human rights organization front but they're doing nothing more than following the example we've set for them here in the US vis-a-vis unsuccessful attempts to hold firearms manufacturers liable for violent acts or the public costs associated therewith, or the successful attempts to hold cigarette manufacturers liable for the result that all smokers knew would come about due to their continued use of the product.
Posted by AzCat 2004-06-17 12:11:16 PM||   2004-06-17 12:11:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 When was the last time that a UN staffer got P.N.G.-ed?
Posted by Eric Jablow  2004-06-17 12:12:46 PM||   2004-06-17 12:12:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Now the bulldozer smugglers will have a customer!

. . .warned not to sell bulldozers. . .

The "expert" says, The joooooos have the audacity to strike back at "suicide" bombers.
Well, then, since they use bulldozers, lets ban them from having bulldozers!

I think this UN "expert" better have eyes in the back of his head. The Mosaad is tracking him. He'd better not ever be alone, he'd better have very good body guards, and he'd better get a new identity.

Even then his chances of survival are 50-50 at best.

He he he
Posted by BigEd 2004-06-17 12:50:17 PM||   2004-06-17 12:50:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I've always liked that photo for the expression on the kids' faces. The kid in the upper right hand corner looks like he's thinking "This is an American? People like this got to the moon?" The kid two places to her left looks like he's thinking "This is, like, so not cool."
Posted by Matt 2004-06-17 1:01:12 PM||   2004-06-17 1:01:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Actually, Ziegler is apparently also a hard-lefty who lied on his UN visa about such membership, and not only has Caterpillar rebuffed him (D-9s are sold unarmored, they have no say in the end use, and will keep up sales), but the Israeli ambassador to the UN offices declared Ziegler unfit for his position, this from the NY Sun ...
Posted by Edward Yee  2004-06-17 3:25:59 PM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]  2004-06-17 3:25:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 And here I thought it was impossible for the UN to be made to look more ridiculous.

To paraphrase Albert Einstein:

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and UN stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

For the UN's hive of diplomatic dilletants there is no upper limit upon their ability to pin blame anywhere except directly upon their own exceptionally well padded posteriors. The UN has facilitated so very many war crimes that their collective heads should explode to even gabble about accusing Mister Caterpillar of same.
Posted by Zenster 2004-06-17 3:26:14 PM||   2004-06-17 3:26:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 So how the hell is that Oil-for-PeopleShreadders investigation going anyway?
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-06-17 8:16:56 PM||   2004-06-17 8:16:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Mr Caterpillar is a reasonable chap. He can go visit Mr. Ziegler at his office in NY.

Well, we have all been amused heartily by Mr. Ziegler. Now it is time to move on and let him babble. Nothing more to see here.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-17 10:43:06 PM||   2004-06-17 10:43:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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