Posted on 02/12/2005 8:27:21 AM PST by jalisco555
The success of the Jan. 30 elections in Iraq has created an exciting moment of opportunity. It matters greatly that Iraq's transition is a success. I am determined to make certain that the United Nations will play its full part in helping the Iraqi people achieve that end.
But it also matters that the international community, which has been angrily divided over Iraq, now recognizes that we all share a common agenda: to move Iraq from the starting point -- its successfully completed elections -- to a peaceful, prosperous and democratic future.
Even the scars left by past differences can be turned into opportunities. Precisely because the United Nations did not agree on some earlier actions in Iraq, it now has much-needed credibility with and access to Iraqi groups that must agree to join in the new political process if peace is to prevail. Now is the time for us to draw on that capital.
I want to capture this moment, and I encourage the international community to come together around Iraq through the United Nations.
No one can fail to have been moved by the Iraqis' display of courage at the polls. The United Nations is proud of the assistance it was able to give them, both in developing the political base for elections and in the technical preparations. We helped to draft the electoral law and to form the Independent Electoral Commission, which ran the elections. A U.N. electoral team of more than 50 staff members in Baghdad, Amman and New York supported the commission. The United Nations trained the commission's members and several hundred other electoral workers, who in turn trained thousands more, and we have advised and supported them throughout the process.
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Looks to me like the USA had nothing to do with it. Huh. Heavens forbid that President Bush would get any credit. GET US OUT OF THE UN NOW.
Credibly wrong? Busted flush capital? We'll stand for the groups that don't want freedom? WTF? Oh, maybe the UN getting it all wrong was strategerie on their part to get in with the bad guys.
Somebody make sense out of this for me, because I can't.
The only thing KOFI ANNAN can claim about Iraq is that his crimes and complicity with the oil deal, caused alot of Iraqis to starve or go hungry.
The sooner the UN is thrown out of the US, the better. Why is this taking so long???
I see we both had trouble with that bit.
I dunno, maybe he means that the 50 noble UN bureaucrats made sure we didn't screw it up.
Drop dead.
Ooops Kofi, your lousy sentence structure is actually an admittance the UN needs credibility.
I really detest the UN!!!!Bunch of marrowsucking rapists.
Yesterday, Kofi announced that he is in full support and wants to work closely with the U.S. after the defeat of the Third Reich.
Probably right. Every time I think these scum can sink no lower they sink lower.
Kofi Anus -- the sonovabitch has no honor, no shame,...NO INTEGRITY.
Fire Kofi, leave the U.N. and send them from our shores.
Semper Fi
I've read it thrice, B, and I still don't know WTH it means.
On my list of those I read for comment, truth, suggestions and or advice, Kofi appears nowhere ... could it be his work in the UN has been too insignificant, or his actions too self-serving, or his words unbelievable, or any or all of the foregoing? Ummmmmmm ... I'm not adding him to my list, but AM making a new one ... the "shit list of people who think they are somebody"
Kofi Annan.?.. (Eddie Murphy laugh)..
How about getting the UN out of the US?
Wasn't Kofi's last best job standing in a group wearing a loin cloth and holding spear. The guy's nothing but an ignorant backwater native in a business suit.
Coughin Anus is nothing more than an African politician. Now, when you think "African politician, does integrity, honesty, or morality come to mind? No. Corrupt, bribe taking, genocide mongering, racist POS. What a fitting leader for a worthless institution.
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