BUSH: I'LL STICK TO MY GUNS AT U.N.

New York Post ^ | 9/22/03 | BRIAN BLOMQUIST

[kattracks]

September 22, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday he'll make no apologies to the United Nations for attacking Iraq without U.N. approval because "the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein." In an interview with Brit Hume of Fox News, Bush also said he doesn't believe the United Nations should have a big role in the day-to-day management of Iraq.

[exit82]

"The world is a better place without Saddam Hussein",Bush said.

The world is a better place because you are the President,sir.

[GrandmaPatriot]

"I do think it would be helpful to get the United Nations in to help write a constitution. I mean, they're good at that. Or, perhaps when an election starts, they'll oversee the election."

What is Pres. Bush thinking? The UN is socialist at best and communist a worst. What sort of constitution would they write? And why would they want an honest election? That is against everything they stand for.

[xzins]

I mean, they're good at that. Or, perhaps when an election starts, they'll oversee the election."

And then there's hot dog vendors.

They have some success with hot dog franchises outside hotel lobbies.

I mean, think about it.....it's something you can sink your teeth into.

[11B3]

I'd prefer to just have him tell the UN to get the hell out of the country with a 24 hour advance notice. Going to them for anything is ridiculous, and degrading.

JUST GET US OUT, MR PRESIDENT!!! The voter's will thank you for doing the right thing, but crucify you for doing the expedient thing. By finishing the UN, the world would be a much better place.

[John Valentine]

I'm with you. We have to keep the United Nations MILES away from the new Iraqi Constitution.

We see what kind of crap Socialists come up with for a constitution with their work on the new one for the EU. It's a 200 plus page collection of brain farts and plain farts.

Nobody knows better than an America how to write a constitution for a free people deriving their natural rights from their creator.

Europeans think that sovereignity and rights are boons granted by the government. It's no wonder that they are so screwed up. We can't let them do that to the Iraqis as long as we can help it.


Disinvite the UN from this process, at least.

Let them hand out cakes.

[Johnbalaya]

He's doing it for appearance's sake. For US politics to show that he's attempting a compromise that the UN will in all likelihood (France and Germany) veto. Bush will smirk at them , turn around and shrug his shoulders to the american people and say, "See, I tried. They're being stubborn. It's not my fault."

If the UN does follow Bush's lead on this compromise, he knows that any attempts at forcing the direction of the Iraqi constitution by the UN will meet with failure because the Iraqi's mistrust the UN, and the Iraqi's have a strong sense of national pride and sovereignty.

I'll wait and see what he proposes to the UN later tonight...

[piasa]

In an interview with Brit Hume of Fox News, Bush also said he doesn't believe the United Nations should have a big role in the day-to-day management of Iraq. "I'm not sure we have to, for starters," Bush said.

OK, so far so good, way to go Mr. Pres...

"I do think it would be helpful to get the United Nations in to help write a constitution.

@#$#%^! You just blew it. We're talking about a bunch of socialists, totalitarians and terrorists with pretty little diplomatic passes, Mr. Pres... not founding fathers.

"I mean, they're good at that."

I hope you're being sarcastic...

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Nobody knows better than an America how to write a constitution for a free people deriving their natural rights from their creator.

America used to know how to write a constitution. Ours, unfortunately, has been drastically rewritten, by renegade judges, to the point where the plain meaning of the words and the original intent are ignored in most cases. I'd like to see us start over--not rewrite it, but simply reset it, wiping out all case law.

[meenie]

I cannot imagine how anybody could think that the United Nations was special in writing Constitutions. I hope his better judgement prevails and this part of his remarks is edited from his speech.

[ZAKJAN]

A gradual ceding of real power would follow over the next six to nine months, Mr Chirac said.

However, he reaffirmed France's position that sovereignty should be "transferred to Iraq as quickly as possible".

Without Iraqi self-rule, he said, there was danger in having a "governor who is Christian and foreign" administer an Arab and Muslim country

[ZAKJAN]

There are christians and other religions in Iraq, is Mr. Chirac trying to create another saudi?

GEEZE

Jan

[q_an_a]

Folks, he is telling all the media that their opinions aobut his asking for HELP where wrong. He suckered the RATS in 2002 now he is getting Europe. He is warning people get on board, get, moral or get your country kicked out of the civil society.

[2rightsleftcoast]

Yes, UN out of our country in 24 hours. That's what I would love to hear. Send the freeloaders packing now.

[John Valentine]

That would be refreshing indeed.

[tet68]

The Euros have yet to learn an important lesson.

They can play Baccarat with Bill Clinton and win big,
but when they play five card stud with a Texan they are going to have call for someone to drive them home, and with out their pants!

[Mulder]

"I do think it would be helpful to get the United Nations in to help write a constitution. I mean, they're good at that

He is either a liar or an idiot.

[Mulder]

What is Pres. Bush thinking? The UN is socialist at best and communist a worst. What sort of constitution would they write? And why would they want an honest election? That is against everything they stand for.

Maybe he wants them to help write our new constitution once the US is merged into a North American Union.

[f.Christian]

Regime change or bust !