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2005-10-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Annan voices dismay at remarks about Israel attributed to Iranian president

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Posted by Fred 2005-10-27 13:44|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Useless wanking. Only one way to solve this problem but everyone avoids taking the joint responsibility of doing so.

This is a situation were the outcome is known yet no one will act. UN = useless niggling.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-10-27 14:01|| 2005-10-27 14:01|| Front Page Top

#2 "Dismay". What a scathing indictment.
When will this corrupt, useless, malignant little pygmy go away?

Posted by tu3031 2005-10-27 14:19|| 2005-10-27 14:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing that a bribe couldn't do to turn Kofi's frown upside down.

Posted by ed 2005-10-27 14:21|| 2005-10-27 14:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Disagree. This is a necessary, if meaningless and in itself useless, step to smacking Iran. Kofi isn't going to get anything from Ahmadinejad and will have a hard time backing down from what he says here. This makes it easier to get UN sanctions, the next step to the big hit. It would be interesting to know the extent to which Bolton authored the statement.

And if Kofi is headed to the middle east for some jaw jaw, has his itinerary been made public? Al-Q might be interested. One stone could solve lots of problems all at once.

Posted by Uliting Unaising5593 2005-10-27 14:23|| 2005-10-27 14:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Kofi's losing his mojo - now the mullahs tell him to come collect his cash in person.

Posted by Jake-the-Peg 2005-10-27 14:27|| 2005-10-27 14:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Even the Eurabist BBC can't avoid the the blatancy of this Muslim Nazi. Maybe Bolton has spooked Kofi.

Posted by Bardo 2005-10-27 14:53|| 2005-10-27 14:53|| Front Page Top

#7 However, if the tables were turned, and it were Israel calling for "wiping Iran off the face of the earth".......

could you imagine the uproar at the UN? I think Kofi would be express something more than "dismay." And he surely would have done it much more immediately, probably calling for an emergency session.

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2005-10-27 14:55|| 2005-10-27 14:55|| Front Page Top

#8 even Saeeb Erakat condemned the Iranians.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-10-27 15:51|| 2005-10-27 15:51|| Front Page Top

#9 lh - I guess he had to, since even Annan was "dismayed".

Ahmadinejad may actually be doing the entire world a favor. I've long thought that, had they any sense, they would've stayed below the radar, built their suicidal nuke(s) and then, when the pkg was complete and ready to go, start waving their privates at the world.

But there's a bizarre foreign policy playbook in circulation, these days. The MMs, Chavez, ??? - all seem to be following it. Make wild threats and accusations. Repeat until a mantra. Seems self-defeating to me, but perhaps the point is to cow everyone who hasn't the wherewithal to actually stop you into, at least, not supporting those who do. Makes little sense in traditional Western logic -- unless the world MSM can be suborned into playing up the Chicken Little aspect to erode internal support, too. Regardless, it certainly must be a humdinger to the Muzzy Mind. An extension of the image over content philosophy so prevalent, today.

Posted by .com 2005-10-27 16:08|| 2005-10-27 16:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Ah, I remembered the ??? - Li'l Kimmie, of course. Sorry for the lapse.

Posted by .com 2005-10-27 16:09|| 2005-10-27 16:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Annan can take his "dis-may" and stick it where it cannot be "dis-lodged."

This ineffectual pansy will do f&%k-all but fiddle while Rome burns.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-27 16:11|| 2005-10-27 16:11|| Front Page Top

#12 nice timing - Kofi visits during the Israeli preemptive attack

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-27 17:00|| 2005-10-27 17:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Re .com's remarks -- I've been wondering the same thing about the playbook. If I were building a nuke the last thing I'd do is threaten people what I'm going to do with it once it's built. I seem to recall that there was an obsessive amount of secrecy associated with the Manhatten Project, and as a result the Japanese never knew what was coming. Or something like that.

This is either muzzie performance art, or the Mad Mullahsâ¢ are trying to keep their own population occupied and not asking the most scary question ("ya know, youze guys are kinda stupid, who put youze in charge?"), or they're trying to buck up their standing with their fellow terr cronies.

I don't get it, but I have a feeling they're going to.

Posted by Steve White 2005-10-27 18:03|| 2005-10-27 18:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Look at how poorly Saddam played his hand. These guys are great bluffers and bs'ers but when it's time for the rubber to meet the road, they're flat.

Posted by Angeath Wholuter8743 2005-10-27 18:20|| 2005-10-27 18:20|| Front Page Top

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