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Tool: Boomeranging Sanctions on Iran
2006-12-28
Nothing like a finger-wag from a total fucking tool. He bases all of his blather upon the presumption that if it's on paper, it's sacrosanct, perfect, inviolable, no exceptions. Lol. Coming from a Mad Mullah puppet, that's a scream. Legalese is all he knows, so it's his chosen field of defense. Fuck him. Only fools, or tools, would argue that there are no exceptions, no flaws, no reason to abrogate a bad agreement or position. Shit changes - then shit happens.

Insane assholes who've threatened for years to annihilate another nation qualify as an exception, methinks. Fuck this clown.
by Hossein Askari - 12.27.2006
The UN Security Council resolution to sanction Iran certainly is the foreign-policy coup for the Bush Administration it has been trumpeted to be—at least in the narrowest sense and in the short term. But it also undermines U.S. interests and is a liability for the United Nations and its fragile credibility.

In the run-up to the Iraq War, some ideologues charged that the United Nations consigns itself to irrelevance by failing to cooperate with and harness the clout of the world’s only superpower. But America’s continuing bleeding in Iraq has attenuated that argument by graphically demonstrating the potential cost of acting virtually alone and without legitimacy. The superpower, therefore, has its own interest in harnessing the cooperation of the Security Council and key allies—something it achieved, at least nominally, with the Iran sanctions. But what the United Nations, including the Security Council, needs to bolster its own credibility is a demonstrated independence from the United States—a phenomenon underappreciated within the confines of the Beltway.

The United Nations therefore should tow closely to the rule of law and act with consistency. By approving the sanctions on Iran, the Security Council has failed in this regard, and the resolution will surely prove counterproductive.
Posted by:.com

#3  The United Nations therefore should tow closely to the rule of law and act with consistency.

This is the big, BIG hole in his argument. His assumption that Iran, the Norkies, etc. are big on that "rule of law" stuff.
While he might be willing to bet his life on it, I most definitely am not...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-12-28 09:23  

#2  "There is not a shred of hard evidence to support the assertion that Iran is developing nuclear weapons."

This is also the position of many left-media baboons, notably Alan "Strawman" Colmes.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2006-12-28 07:57  

#1  There is not a shred of hard evidence to support the assertion that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

Apart from the fact they say they are. What an idiot, or rather blatant propagandist.
Posted by: phil_b   2006-12-28 02:45  

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