US demands that the UN,,,,

[LeeG]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/07/wiran07.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/09/07/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=43073

I'm sure it's a journalistic twist and the US wouldn't demand that an institution that it ignores should do anything,,but doesn't this sound a bit odd?

[High C]

Originally posted by LeeG:
I'm sure it's a journalistic twist and the US wouldn't demand that an institution that it ignores should do anything,,but doesn't this sound a bit odd?Ignores? Didn't you mean to say "hosts" and "supports"? Ignores? Is this the same UN we pleaded with for 14 months to take its share of the burden in Iraq, to no avail? They're a pack of lazy cowards, and had better start accomplishing something, before their gravy train gets cut off.

[NormMessinger]

That seems to be the story of my life too, JT. Everybody going the wrong way but me.

[stan v]

Not everyone Norm, just the majority. I think this request to the UN pertains to IRAN?

[oldriverat]

Originally posted by High C:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by LeeG:
I'm sure it's a journalistic twist and the US wouldn't demand that an institution that it ignores should do anything,,but doesn't this sound a bit odd?Ignores? Didn't you mean to say "hosts" and "supports"? Ignores? Is this the same UN we pleaded with for 14 months to take its share of the burden in Iraq, to no avail? They're a pack of lazy cowards, and had better start accomplishing something, before their gravy train gets cut off.</font>[/QUOTE]But they should vote to send troops from abroad to Iraq to help with the Dubya's re-election campaign shouldn't they.

[Meerkat]

"That's it! The WOMD are actually in IRAN - did you think I said IRAQ?" -- El Shrub.

[ahp]

The last I heard the US has for years refused to pay its UN dues. We are in a snit over something. Is that still the case?

[High C]

Originally posted by ahp:
The last I heard the US has for years refused to pay its UN dues. We are in a snit over something. Is that still the case?You heard wrong. We are in withholding a small portion of our dues in an attempt to get a number of other nations to pay their agreed upon share of various "peace-keeping missions". We have been picking up the financial slack for these other nations for many years. So the withheld dues is an attempt to get them to pony up what they owe us.

[Donn]

"The United States, the world's richest nation, is currently the biggest single defaulter owing more than 800 million dollars to the world body.

To date, total outstanding dues from all member states amount to over 2.6 billion dollars, of which 1.7 billion dollars are arrears accrued in 2002. Also in 2002, only 117 out of a total of 191 member states paid their budget contributions in full, compared with 135 the previous year. The U.N.'s budget for 2002-2003 amounts to about 2.6 billion dollars. For 2004-2005, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has proposed a preliminary budget of about 2.9 billion dollars."

link (http://www.globalpolicy.org/finance/docs/2003/0102contributions.htm)

[Eric Sea Frog]

I wonder how many people were aware of the UN presence and action in Iraq till ElQ blast of De Mello got media coverage?

[imported_Snatchblock]

Bush IS going to lose this next election because of this Iraq debacle. I don't see the American public being so stupid as to be able to ignore or fail to see his ulterior motives in the middle east. It really is all about the oil and the oil service companies- ( ie Halliburton). And though I voted for him before, I could give a **** at this point. He has wasted the lives of hundreds of Americas finest men for his little vendetta. He ought to be run out of town with a drill point shoved up his ---.

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Iraq is just a small part of why he'll lose. He's raping the environment, blatently favoring corporate interests at the expense of the people, robbing us of our constitutional rights and freedoms and sending us into a spiral of debt that will be almost impossible to reverse.

I guess I'll tune in tonight to hear his sorry a** excuses for how we got here and what he'll try to do about it. The Dixie Chick got it right - he is an embarrassment!

Steven

[stan v]

I think W has finally gotten the libs to admit how important money is. :D

[Greg H]

I hope you're right Steve. Of course he didn't really win the last election either.

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." - P.T. Barnum

[oldriverat]

I hope your right also Steve. Only I'm not even going to turn his sorry ass on tonight. I got better things to do with my time than listen to more lies.

[On Vacation]

He's raping the environment
Explain:

blatently favoring corporate interests at the expense of the people,
Explain:

robbing us of our constitutional rights and freedoms,
Have you had your doors broken down?

Have you been unable to drive down the highway, anytime, anyplace, and anywhere?

Have you been turned down and sent away, entering an airport, city hall, held at gunpoint, and hand cuffed while entering a public facility?

Have you been scared away from any church, for saying the word GOD?

Have you been unable to go to a ball game, or soccer match, or any wooden boat show, because of you political affiliation? Hae you been denied a job, because of your race, creed or color, or party affiliation?

Explain:

and sending us into a spiral of debt that will be almost impossible to reverse.

Do you have a crystal ball? Jimmy Carter's mess was reversed with Ronald Reagan. For every mountain there is a valley.

Explain:

I guess I'll tune in tonight to hear his sorry a** excuses for how we got here and what he'll try to do about it. The Dixie Chick got it right - he is an embarrassment!

Are you listening with an open mind? :rolleyes: Read a book. Nothing is going to change, tonight. We are at war. We will still be at war tommorrow. See I said everything you were going to hear, in a few typed words. We have around 14 months plus till you can punch the card for Hilary,and higher taxes, selling weapons to the enemy, and more of Jimmy Carter's failed policies, along with the United Nations and its band of terrorist supporters. You know she will make him Secretary of State, the great peacemaker of all time. :eek:

[ 09-07-2003, 08:20 PM: Message edited by: Oyster ]

[Greg H]

Oh man, I'm glad it's not like that here. tongue.gif