posted September 13, 2006 12:48 PM            

Annan said the United States was now in the difficult position where "it cannot stay and it cannot leave."

He said the leaders he spoke to on his recent trip to the Middle East fell into two camps: Some believed the United States cannot walk away from Iraq, while others, such as Iran, said it should leave and they would help stabilize the country.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/13/114208.shtml?s=ic

One wonders what the corrupt blithering idiot Annan would think the leaders of terrorist regimes and corrupt dictatorships would say about any effort to establish a nation with a representative government in their midst.

This from the utterly corrupt Kofi Annan who oversaw the Oil for Food scam which ripped of billions from the people of Iraq and which flowed into the coffers of the UN, corrupt UN officials, corrupt French officials and Saddam Hussein.

This from the utterly corrupt Kofi Annan who as the head of UN peace keeping forces stood idly by while about a million Rwandans were systematically slaughtered while his "peacekeeping" forces were on the ground in the immediate area...and did nothing.

Kofi Annan if full of it. US military forces will not leave Iraq...until the government is stablized, until Iraqi military forces are fully trained and equipped and until those forces and the government which directs them are fully capable of fighting off any internal or external threat to overthrow their representative government.

posted September 13, 2006 01:36 PM            

NEW YORK -- Nearly three-quarters of the American people think the United Nations is no longer effective and could support cutting U.S. contributions to the world body, according to a poll released yesterday by the conservative Hudson Institute.

Respondents were primarily concerned about corruption and mismanagement, according to pollsters, who note that three years ago oil-for-food and other scandals barely registered.

Fifty-seven percent of respondents agreed that "if the U.N. cannot be reformed and made more effective, it should be scrapped" and replaced. Thirty-eight percent disagreed.

Exactly half of those surveyed felt the world body undermines U.S. national security interests, while 34 percent say it promotes them.

But disengagement does not seem to be on people's minds: 73 percent said the United States should take a more active role in the United Nations, because "it is the best way to influence world affairs." Some 24 percent disagreed.

Eight hundred people responded to the phone survey conducted by Luntz Maslansky Strategic Research, a Virginia-based polling firm with close ties to the Republican Party.

"When you find out that people are enriching [themselves] off your hard-earned tax dollars, they won't stand for it," pollster Frank Luntz told a handful of reporters yesterday.

"And when the institution refuses to fix itself? The response is reform or die."

That is largely the message being delivered by the Bush administration and its ambassador to the United Nations, John R. Bolton.

Mr. Luntz said the poll was impartial despite his and the Hudson Institute's affiliations.

He said that the United Nations must overcome its reputation for corruption and mismanagement, and must take significant action to halt Iran's presumed quest for nuclear weapons. He also counseled politicians to take advantage of popular distaste.

"If they fail on Iran, the [U.S.] leader who says: 'Let's find an alternative. If I'm elected president, we will leave the U.N.' will be elected," Mr. Luntz predicted. "Someone should say, 'Not one more dollar.'"

U.N. officials were not thrilled by the poll, but did not seem overly concerned by its findings.

"We don't tell our story; we should be more -- we should kick back," said outgoing General Assembly President Jan Eliasson, who noted that the United Nations takes on such difficult tasks as the Darfur region of Sudan, the Middle East and other solution-defying conflicts.

In June, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown touched off a firestorm when he told two left-leaning think tanks that the Bush Administration is engaged in "stealth diplomacy" by working with the organization on a number of issues, but rarely defending it against critics.

The Hudson Institute survey, which included some September 11-related questions, found that 34 percent of respondents think Iran is "the single greatest threat to world peace," followed by North Korea (15 percent), Iraq (11 percent), the United States (11 percent) and China (8 percent).
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20060911-103335-8448r.htm

posted September 13, 2006 01:49 PM            

jwhop said

"To the blithering idiots at the UN, "taking on an issue" means sitting around with their thumbs up their sorry a$ses while a genocide is in progress. It never means action."

Absolutely right!!!!

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The democratic world believes that it is not the terrorists that are to blame, but us. Us, the westerners.
WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the sooner you eliminate this misconception from your minds, the better.
We are NOT to blame. It is the freaking terrorists and the freaking terrorists only!!!! They are the bad guys. They do not understand concepts like peace, democracy, and respect for human life. They are, pure and simPle, EVIL!!!!! Behind all their political manipulations, if you carefully look at the actions of these MONSTERS, they are EVIL!!

http://www.mideastweb.org/log/archives/00000489.htm

posted September 13, 2006 06:27 PM            

It's a disgrace they still infest the shores of the United States.