[MadIvan]

The UN is a nonsense. It was founded to prevent aggression by member states; all it does is prevent action against aggressor states.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Americanwolf]

I pray it goes the way of the League of Nations.

[CheyennePress]

Hey, they're good for a lot of semi-sternly worded half-criticisms!

Kind of like your mother counting to three but stopping at 2 1/8, 2 and 1/4, 2 and 3/8 ...

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

If the world was allowed to continue on its natural path (no divine intervention) to nuclear annihilation, the U.N. would be the primary facilitator in the extinction of all life on the planet. I call that a perfect failure.

[Herakles]

Is it me or do all politicians everywhere seem totally worthless.

I miss the days when someone wanted to mess with us we could just hammer them and get it over with.

I also miss the days when congress wasn't totally worthless (I think that would be the contract with America)!

[DoughtyOne]

I guess it's gotten better then. I've though of it as hell for a long time.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Bolton: “This atmosphere is like a bubble. It is like a twilight zone. Things that happen here don't reflect the reality in the rest of the world.”

I would say it is more like the “Night Gallery” (a horror series hosted by Rod Serling).

[freedomfiter2]

"We feel strongly that we need reform. Condoleezza Rice said last September we want a revolution of reform. It's not often an American secretary of state calls for revolutions."

Look, no institution that has a majority of it's members belonging to completely corrupt governments is ever going to work.

[browardchad]

In December, he forced a six-month limit on the UN budget, infuriating the developing world, by making further funding dependent on the passage of key reforms.

America's EU allies, especially Britain, had to negotiate a compromise - "they pulled his chest hairs from the fire" said a veteran UN observer.

I'd say our EU allies didn't do Bolton, the US, or the UN any favors with their compromise. A carrot without a stick is just a carrot -- and, in this case, a very expensive and wasteful carrot.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Awaiting from Mr. Bolton's mentor, George Voinovich.

[LonePalm]

_nited Nation_
__ited States

Work it out Mr. Bolton

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Buffettfan]

Its time to move the UN to a third world country like Haiti and then we will see how serious they are about solving the world's problems. Time to kick this worthless, corrupt, brutal dictator supporting farce out of the USA.

[listenhillary]

America's bantam cock of an ambassador is something of a cult figure at the UN.

[frankiep]

UN officials mutter that far from helping to push through much-needed reforms to ensure embarrassments such as the oil-for-food scandal are never repeated, his methods have impeded the chances of agreement.

Oil for food scandal, Coffee Anus' son, UN peacekeepers committing sex crimes, countries like Libya, Cuba, Syria, Iran, etc. heading up committies dealing with disarmament, and human rights, and resolutions that are laughed at and have no meaning.....but it is Bolton that is the problem in their eyes?

Seriously, any candidate in 2008 that runs on a platform of making sure that this criminal organization is removed from our soil has got my vote, without question.

[AIC]

The U.S. Pres. and most of Wash. politicians thinks the U.N. is important and worth saving. My question is, 'just why is the U.N. important'? Just the facts. Is there ANY important use that the U.N. is used for? Has the U.N. at any time since it's conception been of any use to any country? Has it every stopped a war? Can it stop anything? Has it helped with any type of trade agreements that were not crooked?
Is the U.N. there just for the use of the high class politicians from all over the world?
I think I would really like to know just what GOOD is the U.N. to anyone in the world. What good have they done that is not done by a country or several countries anyway and still do if there were not a U.N.?

[sergeantdave]

The UN is simply the most public symbol of the international communist movement on American soil. Its influence is felt across America via our federal bureaucracy that is illegally implementing unratified UN treaties such as the biodiversity treaty, voted down by the US senate in 1994. The UN should have been ripped down the same day the Berlin Wall fell.

[dixiechick2000]

Bolton bump!


I wish they would bulldoze the place,
and pave a (more useful) parking lot.

[1rudeboy]

Another Bush globalist pulling wool over the eyes of the true believers. [chuckle]

[FreedomCalls]

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."