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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during a news conference at the U.N. in New York, December 14, 2006. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)


1 posted on 12/15/2006 7:17:08 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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.. the media in South Korea dubbed him "the slippery eel because I was too charming for them to be able to catch me."


2 posted on 12/15/2006 7:17:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... Merry Something PC.)
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also said he plans "concerted action" to achieve U.N. development goals that include cutting extreme poverty by half and universal education by 2015.

He wants to cut universal education in half by 2015? I'm OK with that.

3 posted on 12/15/2006 7:22:57 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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[South Korea's Ban Ki-moon laid out an ambitious agenda as the next U.N. secretary-general, promising to become personally engaged in efforts to bring peace to the Mideast and Darfur and to clean up the world body.]


What's ambitious about that agenda? It's the same agenda every new U.N. leader brings to the body, always with the same nonexistent results.
5 posted on 12/15/2006 7:24:32 PM PST by spinestein (There is no pile of pennies so large that I won't throw two more on top.)
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The UN denizens have been poking fun at Ban Ki-moon because he doesn't speak French so good.

Everybody knows the real business of the world is conducted in English. But what goes on at the UN is not real business anyway.


6 posted on 12/15/2006 7:24:44 PM PST by alloysteel (A battle cry of the Crusaders: "Denique caelum!" (Latin, "Heaven at last!))
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The UN is a completely out of control. His "ambitions" should have been met with boos and hisses. What a sick world we live in.
7 posted on 12/15/2006 7:24:55 PM PST by Jaysun (I've never paid for sex in my life. And that's really pissed off a lot of prostitutes.)
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anyone have more info in thie guy. He looks like he is leaps and bounds better than the kofi-kujo dynamic duo. I dont like the korean sunshine policy in n korea, but hes from an allied country with the 3rd biggest troop deployment in iraq.

"On August, 2004, the South Korean government dispatched 3,400 soldiers to Iraq following American requests for reinforcements and further fueled by the beheading of South Korean citizen Kim Sun-il by Islamic extremists in Iraq. This force became third in size (surpassed only by the US and UK), after the withdrawal of Spanish forces. South Korea is currently responsible for peace-keeping and reconstruction in the Arbil Governorate, located in the Kurdish Autonomous Region. The peace-keeping troops were named Zaytun Division and Daiman Unit. Zaytun and Daiman respectively mean olive (a symbol of peace) and 'always with you' in Arabic."


8 posted on 12/15/2006 7:25:25 PM PST by minus_273
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I wish him luck-he's gonna need it...


9 posted on 12/15/2006 7:27:14 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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career diplomat


Dang it, I was going to wish him the best of luck until I read his profession. Now, I will just wish his estate does not quadruple during his term.
10 posted on 12/15/2006 7:27:20 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (The faithful will keep their heads down, their powder dry and hammer at the enemies flanks.)
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"In his sharpest comments, Ban said Iran's call for Israel's destruction and its dismissal of the Nazi Holocaust were "unacceptable" — and he called on all countries to respect "both in rhetoric and practice" that it is not acceptable to call for the elimination of any state or people."

Sharpest comments...ooooh! Wait till he writes up the feared "strongly worded reprimand".

14 posted on 12/15/2006 7:52:12 PM PST by libs_kma (Monica blew while Al-Queda grew.....Oh well, Clinton happens!)
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Well, it's an ambitious agenda... but they best not be looking at US to foot the bill. The UN's been little help and deserves less from the States.


15 posted on 12/15/2006 8:00:47 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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If the man had a single ounce of integrity he'd call for individual freedom, private property and the rule of law.

Those kinds of thoughts are way, way beyond UN cavemen.

Another neanderthal pr*ck.


16 posted on 12/15/2006 8:47:00 PM PST by sergeantdave (Consider that nearly half the people you pass on the street meet Lenin's definition of useful idiot)
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