Posted on 03/29/2006 12:12:59 PM PST by areafiftyone
the UN was a failure based upon a utopian ideal that couldn't work, and all it has done is to provide a platform whereby our enemies can bask in luxuries only available here while bashing us and trying to cause harm to us and our allies, and free peoples the world over.
they haven't solved a single world problem that the USA didn't solve first.
I'd like to see them tossed out on their collective diplomatically immnune ears.
maybe hif they lived with some of the world's injustice they might be of some good. I'd like to put them in, say Zimbabwe, or maybe the Sudan. Not that I'd object to their being relocated to Iran too much tho...
BWAHAHAHAHA!
LOL! That's exactly what I was thinking!
I thought that was funny too.
UN: the Barney Fife of the international community.
But of corse. The fine French food will be served, by very- vwry nice ladies, after that, cocktails, severed by even nicer ladies, with even less clothing on- then they will start to branch off into groups, and eventually end up in their lavish well stocked priate rooms with a fine lady or two.
What about Iran? They'll get a statement out in the morning to the secretary, who will sort through them, then release a press statement next week sometime.
Good idea. China would whip them into economic powerhouse in months, and illegal immigration would turn in the other direction for better jobs!
This will keep the Mullahs up nights.
Put the UN building in etheopia, way out in the badlands. Make them dig their own well and outhouse too.
Next war tell Jorge to draft the illegal aliens to fight it..
imo
The 15 members of the council planned to meet later Wednesday to approve the statement, the text of which was not immediately disclosed. Uranium enrichment is a process that can lead to a nuclear weapon.
The council has struggled for three weeks to come up with a written rebuke that would urge Iran to comply with several demands from the board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, to clear up suspicions about its intentions. Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
"The council is expressing its clear concern and is saying to Iran that it should comply with the wishes of the governing board," Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones-Parry told reporters.
The West believes council action will help isolate Iran and put new pressure on it to clear up suspicions about its intentions. They have proposed an incremental approach, refusing to rule out sanctions.
U.S. officials have said the threat of military action must also remain on the table.
Russia and China, both allies of Iran, oppose sanctions. They want any council statement to make explicit that the IAEA, not the Security Council, must take the lead in confronting Iran.
The council has struggled for three weeks to come up with a written rebuke that would urge Iran to comply with demands from the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, that it suspend uranium enrichment.
But even though the statement is not legally enforceable, the talks have been extremely sensitive because of the statement's larger significance.
Britain, France and the United States want the council statement out of the way before their foreign ministers, as well as Germany's meet in Berlin on Thursday to discuss strategy toward Iran.
Wednesday's meeting of the five veto-wielding members of the council — the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia — was the fourth in less than 24 hours.
In Moscow on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov repeated his stance that Moscow would not support the use of force to solve the Iranian nuclear problem.
"As many of our European and Chinese colleagues have stated more than once, any ideas involving the use of force or pressure in resolving the issue are counterproductive and cannot be supported," Lavrov said.
Iran remains defiant. The government released a statement through its embassy in Moscow on Tuesday warning that Security Council intervention would "escalate tensions, entailing negative consequences that would be of benefit to no party."
LOL! Reminds me of the line in Search for the Holy Grail. "Now go away or I will taunt you a second time"!
Amazing they can agree on a statement but really it means little. Iran will ignore it and then the "POWERFUL BODY" will really FLEX it's muscles, with RESOLUTION after RESOLUTION after RESOLUTION.............ad infinitum!
One down, only 50 more (resolutions) to go!!!!!!!!!!
Iran must have run out of bribe money. Russia and China are also in range of the Shahib missiles.
Until they agree on an action... the rest of this is useless.
The UN is like a parent in a Dr. Spock household. It will "demand" and plead and order and cajole, but the kid knows there will never, ever be a spanking.
You can see just how well that technique works by observing a 5-year-old kid with his mother in the candy isle of the grocery store.
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