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NEW UN 'DISARM IRAN' PLAN
New York Post ^ | May 3, 2008

Posted on 05/03/2008 7:57:17 AM PDT by processing please hold

World powers agreed yesterday to try again to lure Iran to the nuclear bargaining table, this time with a repackaged set of carrots to accompany the stick of UN sanctions. Diplomats said the offer contained no major new enticements but was meant to remind Iran that talking is still an option. The central terms of a 2006 compromise stand: Iran could trade worrisome elements of its nuclear program for economic and political incentives and the possibility of a better relationship with Washington. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad turned down that offer, saying it had strings attached. The Security Council has since imposed three sets sanctions as a result. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband did not give Tehran a deadline to respond or say what the group would do if Iran rejects the package again.

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Could somebody help me out here please. Are they just sending the same old same old through the washer again hoping to get a different response from iran?
1 posted on 05/03/2008 7:57:17 AM PDT by processing please hold
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The UN recycles it’s greatest hits more than K-Tel ever did.


2 posted on 05/03/2008 8:01:03 AM PDT by stravinskyrules (Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?)
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This is a fool’s errand, performed by the foolish and impotent U.N.
Meanwhile the countdown to an Iranian nuclear weapon continues to tick.


3 posted on 05/03/2008 8:03:31 AM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: stravinskyrules

Ain’t that the truth. I’m at a loss as to why they would think it would work this time around when it didn’t work the last time.


4 posted on 05/03/2008 8:03:58 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein, (attributed)

5 posted on 05/03/2008 8:04:10 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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The Security Council has since imposed three, six, eight, ten, twenty sets of sanctions as a result. Some times you just have to wonder, who is the UN more afraid of , Iran or their own responsibility.
6 posted on 05/03/2008 8:05:03 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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The UN. Now with 20% more appeasement!


7 posted on 05/03/2008 8:05:18 AM PDT by TheWasteLand
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It is a fools errand. I would say it isn't logical but that would be redundant when speaking of the un.

Maybe it's just a stalling tactic until iran has the bomb.

8 posted on 05/03/2008 8:06:28 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: ConservaTexan
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Thank you. That's the quote I wanted to put in my post and I couldn't remember it.

9 posted on 05/03/2008 8:07:50 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: tet68
Some times you just have to wonder, who is the UN more afraid of , Iran or their own responsibility.

Look at the make-up of the un and you'll have your answer. They are very pro despot and dictatorial regimes. It's where their power comes from.

10 posted on 05/03/2008 8:10:29 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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The Neville Chamberlain school of diplomacy lives still in the UN.

After all, when the feces hits the wind generator, they know the US will always be around to pull their ‘chest’nuts out of the fire.

(Children and the UN will never grow up until they are held accountable and are made to accept the consequences for their own dumb decisions)_

11 posted on 05/03/2008 8:10:41 AM PDT by MCCRon58 (Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who do neither, criticize.)
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I think UNsanity is a more appropriate term.


12 posted on 05/03/2008 8:11:22 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: TheWasteLand

I’d say it was much higher than a mere 20%.


13 posted on 05/03/2008 8:11:47 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: MCCRon58
The Neville Chamberlain school of diplomacy lives still in the UN.

I think it's more sinister than that.

(Children and the UN will never grow up until they are held accountable and are made to accept the consequences for their own dumb decisions)_

That will never happen.

14 posted on 05/03/2008 8:14:39 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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That they have the power to take apart our country piece by piece is mind boggling. From tobacco to influencing our news. If the majority of Americans really knew how deeply entrenched the un is to what’s going on in our country today, there would be a march on the un headquarters with torches and arms. But, alas, they are using the slow boil technique.


15 posted on 05/03/2008 8:20:32 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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It will be just like Iraq...UN officials will arrive, get led around by the nose, return to the Security Council and claim that Iran has no nukes. Meanwhile Iran will be slipping them out the back door to traitorous Russia until things cool down.

Why is it that we continue to reward and subsidize incompetence?


16 posted on 05/03/2008 8:38:13 AM PDT by BloodOrFreedom
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The Great Swami is seeing a Thermal Warming in Iran's future.

17 posted on 05/03/2008 8:46:20 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad turned down that offer, saying it had strings attached.

Yes, it does. So?

18 posted on 05/03/2008 8:50:26 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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Whether people like it or not I believe that will happen because the world is so weak in preventing them from acquiring. The world has no concept of being proactive with them.


19 posted on 05/03/2008 9:03:31 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: RightWhale

This is yet another delaying tactic for the un. The way they handled saddam would be an excellent example. Resolution after resolution and he ignored them. iran following down the same path.


20 posted on 05/03/2008 9:05:53 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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