Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval

NYT ^ | 3/10/2003 | Patrick Tyler and Felicity Barringer

[ex-Texan]

Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval

UNITED NATIONS, March 10 — Secretary General Kofi Annan warned today that if the United States fails to win approval from the Security Council for an attack on Iraq, Washington's decision to act alone or outside the Council would violate the United Nations charter.

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Mr. Annan's remarks drew a sharp response from Washington, where the Bush administration, like its allies overseas, was engaged in a strong lobbying effort to win the necessary nine votes to pass a resolution this week authorizing war.

The White House spokesman Ari Fleischer in a strongly worded retort said that "from a moral point of view," if the United Nations fails to support the Bush administration's war aims, it will have "failed to act once again," as it did in Kosovo in the face of persecution of the ethnic Albanians by Serbia and earlier in Rwanda in the face of genocidal massacres by Hutus against Tutsis.

Some international legal experts also took issue with Mr. Annan's assertions ***

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[clintonh8r]

Oh, no! Not that!

[ChadGore]

Like Clinton in Kosovo? Like Chirac in Ivory Coast ?

[Brett66]

I guess we need to be kicked out of it then. Come on Kofi, show some b*lls!

[Captiva]

Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval

GOOD!!

[goodnesswins]

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[mhking]

Screw 'em. Let's roll.

What time is Franks due in Qatar?

[eyespysomething]

LOL. They are acting like we give a s^*$ what the UN now says. They won't confront Iraq, they gonna do sumptin' to us?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I like this Ari Fleischer guy hes good at slapping the press around without lifting a finger

he he he

[Bogey78O]

I double dog dare you to kick us out Kofi!

[cynicom]

Tell that clown to pack up the damned UN and move it to Africa or France. Then they can sit around all day pontificating while the world goes on without them.

[Hoverbug]

Once again, Kofi Annan has shown determined leadership by stating today that the UN may decide that it might be time to conceivably give serious consideration to possibly thinking about maybe addressing the option of debating whether or not it should take under investigation the idea of pondering the question as to whether it should regard the exploration of perhaps taking under advisement the many alternatives of ways to actually do something as a possible course of action that may be potentially viable.

[Beck_isright]

Did Mr. Anal er Annan think that just maybe we might be withdrawing from the United Nations League of Nations when this is all said and done?

[eyespysomething]

well said! ;-P

[FreedomCalls]

Wake up and smell the Kofi.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval."

So, we'll worry about it seventeen or eighteen resolutions from now.

[way-right-of-center]

Would skipping the "double dog dare" and going straight to the "triple dog dare" be a violation of UN Charter?

[Beck_isright]

Did you see Hannity tonight? Bill Kristol and Hannity both agreed it's time to get the U.S. out of the U.N. or at least start discussing this openly in the halls of Congress!!!! Will wonders never cease.

[Bogey78O]

Ignore Kofi...

He suffers from Ghana-rea.

[way-right-of-center]

lol...great post

[rintense]

For the umpteenth time...

Screw the UN!

[Diogenesis]

UN "Emperor" Abu Kofi Annan, has supported serial murderers of Americans for years.
Annan gives three billion dollars per year to Terrorist Saddam to promote his murderous regime.
Annan, supporter of Islamic slavery and terror, had his Jenin UN compound
hang a sign promising to "... kill 100 Jews".

[org.whodat]

Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval

I wonder if the little ten horn has every hear, TAKE THE UN AND STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE.

[dalebert]

From another post: Since the UN was formed there have been about 26 international conflicts. Shooting wars involving member nations. Of the 26 conflicts, only 3 received UN support. These 3 were the Korean War, The Gulf War and the Afghan war. The Russians, French and Chinese have engaged in international conflicts since the inception of the UN have never sought the UN backing for military moves but the USA has. Info from Council on Foreign Relations.

[Carry_Okie]

Now this is interesting!

So if we don't play their delay game so that tens of thousands of our troops can die (just like they did in Rwanda), all so that the French, Russians, Germans, North Koreans, and Chinese can continue to sell illegal weapons to Saddam, so that they can go ahead and subject millions to the blessings of global socialism, organized crime, and mass murder... Kofi and gang are going to do... what?

So nice of you to threaten us Kofi... um... with what?

Expulsion?

Please?

[ConservativeMan55]

Hey Kofi:
KISS MY ASS!

[CanisMajor2002]

It's official, then. 1441 didn't mean diddly.

[RJL]

Secretary General Kofi Annan warned today that if the United States fails to win approval from the Security Council for an attack on Iraq, Washington's decision to act alone or outside the Council would violate the United Nations charter.

Kofi, Do the French military actions in the Ivory Coast violate the United Nations charter?

Kofi, do the Russian military actions in Chechnya violate the United Nations charter?

Kofi, do the Chinese military actions in Tibet violate the United Nations charter?

Or, Kofi, are the violations reserved only for the US?

[snooker]

>>>Wake up and smell the Kofi.

I did, it smells like Blix.

snooker

[CyberAnt]

"Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval"

Geeeee ... I don't recall Kofi ever saying that to x42 ...??

Maybe Kofi is getting the point that if he doesn't side with us, the UN is toast!!

[Question_Assumptions]

You just gotta love Bill Clinton (well, not really...). He single handedly knocked almost every leg out from under the liberal's moral superiority claims by doing everything that they claim to hate (including fighting a war without UN approval), and still the liberals love him. Are abortion rights really worth political suicide?

[Howie66]

Kofi Anan, like the UN is decidedly irrelevant.

[mrb1960]

I double dog dare you to kick us out Kofi!

No, no, I TRIPLE DOG DARE you!

[Aaron0617]

Ignore Kofi...

Bush can't do that, Mandela will call him racist again.

C'mon Kofi. Whachagonna do about it?>

[semaj]

"Annan Says U.S. Will Violate Charter if It Acts Without Approval"

So Kaffi, what does your punkass propose to do about.

[PhilDragoo]

WATCH IT, ANUS, YOUR BUTT BUDDY IS NEXT.

[Beck_isright]

He certainly is an Iraqiroid in the rear. Kofi needs to be relocated to Belgium, which is where the United Nations League of Nations needs to be. And if Canada and Mexico don't play ball, we should kiss NAFTA goodbye too.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Did you see Hannity tonight? Bill Kristol and Hannity both agreed it's time to get the U.S. out of the U.N. or at least start discussing this openly in the halls of Congress!!!! Will wonders never cease

Yea something it seems we have been screaming here forever.Its time for the U.N. to go the way of the doedoe

[Bogey78O]

yea...boortz wrote that today.

boort.com/nealnuz.html

[woodyinscc]

What horse pucky!

How about the 17 resolutions against Iraq!!!

How about half a million dead in Ruwanda?

The U.N. is a joke!!

[NewYorker]

Secretary General Kofi Annan warned today that if the United States fails to win approval from the Security Council for an attack on Iraq, Washington's decision to act alone or outside the Council would violate the United Nations charter.

Hold muh beer and watch this, Kofi!

[Thane_Banquo]

<Frankly, Mr. Annan, we don't give a damn.

[scooby321]

Don't let the door hit u on the way back to the League of Nations Building Kofi

[The Wizard]

you can tell this little jackass that we don't need him, his F'ing UN and his opinion

[FreeTheHostages]

Hmm, not breaking news. Covered by the networks hours ago. What's breaking news, LOL, is that the NYTimes only took 4 hours to get it on their website.

[DoughtyOne]

So the UN Charter says a tyrant like Hussein with clear intent to develop WMDs and use them is protected by the UN charter. I just wanted to get that on the record.

Has anyone noticed the UN doesn't seem to realize North Korea exists on this planet? Perhaps someone should slip Kofi a note.

[My Favorite Headache]

Amen..but Bill "Bling Bling" Clinton is on deck for General Sec. of the UN. I think it is just wild dreams.

[faithincowboys]

memo to the butcher of baghdad: why pay tariq when you have kofi?

[CyberAnt]

ROTFLOL !!!

I love it!

[Howie66]

"I double dog dare you to kick us out Kofi!"

More likely than not, Kofi Anan looks at a dog as a meal.

Better that WE kick the useless, God-foresaken U.N. OUT of our country.

This so-called "organization" has proven, time and again, that they are about as useless as teats on a boar. There is nothing that would indicate that things will change anytime soon.