[B-bone]

Ding..ding..ding...ding... We have a winner!!!!

[jdege]

I'm all for a new UN HQ - if it's tents in North Dakota.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[facedown]

If the UN "authorizes" the use of force before hand then the US might choose to credit their military expenses against any current and future UN dues.

We should do this anyway.

[clamper1797]

We need US to be out of the UN

[Amelia]

I read somewhere a while back that the U.N. has "custody" of Iraq's "Oil for Food" bank account & is making quite a bit of interest, etc., for administering the account. You might also want to look at that.

[Poohbah]

Actually, my guarantee would be a negative guarantee: "If you idiots hold up this resolution another day, we're walking out, and the UN becomes just another private organization under US law. Y'all get to pay parking tickets and property taxes."

[Cicero]

The chief economic incentive for the UN is that the UN is currently the trustee of Iraqi oil funds, and is now sitting on about $10 billion squirrelled away in the bank. It collects the money and parcels it out, but it's very SLOW in parcelling it out.

This huge sum of money dwarfs the UN's regular budget.

You can live pretty high off the hog with expense accounts funded by the interest from $10 billion. And Saddam doesn't object because it puts Kofi Annan and the UN bureaucracy firmly on his side.

[desertcry]

If what you say is true, then the UN is finished, and will thrown out of NYC.