To: Happy2BMe
5 posted on
03/22/2003 11:45:18 PM PST by
Dimensio
To: Dimensio
Hehe.. ok, guess Dennis won't get tagged for this one then.
Tnx - it's still kinda cute.
8 posted on
03/22/2003 11:50:01 PM PST by
Happy2BMe
(HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
To: Dimensio
This bit was outrageous! From snopes.com:
--snip--
We can substantiate that the two checkable points in the rant do indeed stand up to scrutiny: The United Nations Commission on Human Rights is chaired by Najat Al-Hajjaji of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and Iraq was selected to head the United Nations' Conference on Disarmament scheduled to be held in Geneva beginning in May 2003. (Which country chairs the U.N. Conference on Disarmament is determined through "purely automatic rotation by alphabetical order.") However, in mid-February Iraq informed the U.N. that it was giving up its turn at the rotating presidency of the disarmament forum; since Iran had already given up its turn to chair the body as well, the position fell upon the next country on the alphabetical list, Ireland.
--end--
So is it Iraq or not?
13 posted on
03/23/2003 12:02:41 AM PST by
ukbird
To: Dimensio
Forgot to ping you on #15. Thanks for the debunking link!
16 posted on
03/23/2003 12:06:12 AM PST by
Dajjal
To: Dimensio
As I read that, I thought it was a little cheesy for Miller, and started to opine what Mark Steyn could do with the same material. Aha! The IHT got sucked in. Good. You'd think they would have checked with Miller before using stuff that they thought was his, woodencha?
31 posted on
03/23/2003 4:06:24 PM PST by
gcruse
(Democrats are the party of the Tooth Fairy.)
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