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2004-04-16 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2004-04-16 12:43:10 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Negroponte told council members that the United States welcomes the "highly constructive recommendations" made this week by U.N.

'Constructive' and 'U.N.' seem to me mutually exclusive concepts...

Posted by Raj 2004-04-16 1:21:55 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-04-16 1:21:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Spain will leave unless control is not given to the UN vice the Iraqis. Wouldn't want those Iraqis to be in charge of a democratic governemtn mapping out their own destiny would we?

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-16 1:24:36 PM|| 2004-04-16 1:24:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Prediction, IF John Forbes Kerry (that has the sound of a "freind" of the working man) wins in November then on January 21 all of a sudden the UN and the EU will suddenly see the need for assistting the US in Iraq. I suspect a large part of the unwillingness to do so is predicated on the intense hatered of GWB in some quarters. Unfortunately I do see the need for an organization like the UN, just not nessecarily the UN we've got. Consider the spectacular successes the UN has had in the last 15 years, Rawanda, Somolia after the USMC basically was pulled out, Kosovo, Bosnia, need I go on. The UN needs to be reformed. God knows India deserves a permanent seat on the SC more than France does. The rules of floor debate and voting are asinine. That a country the population and economic power of Fuji has the same voting power as Japan or Britian much less the US is absurd. That does not mean that Fuji or other minor states deserve to run ruffshod. Perhaps the model of the US Huose of Representatives where in more populous states have more voting power would make more sense.

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-04-16 6:20:11 PM|| 2004-04-16 6:20:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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