A costly charade at the un

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<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'>A Costly Charade At the U.N.

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, February 28, 2003; Page A23

America goes courting Guinea, Cameroon and Angola in search of the nine Security Council votes necessary to pass our new resolution on Iraq.

The absurdity of the exercise mirrors the absurdity of the United Nations itself. Guinea is a perfectly nice place and Guineans perfectly nice people. But from the dawn of history to the invention of the United Nations, it made not an ounce of difference what a small, powerless, peripheral country thought about a conflict thousands of miles away. It still doesn't, except at the Alice-in-Wonderland United Nations, where Guinea and Cameroon and Angola count.

Absurd is a good word to describe the UN (http://www.washingtonpost.c om/wp-dyn/articles/A14219-2003Feb27.html)</span>

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Quote[/b] ] This is all for tomorrow. The imperative today is to win the war in Iraq. However, winning the peace will mean not just the reconstruction of Iraq. It will mean replacing an alliance system that died some years ago, but whose obituary was written only this year. In French, with German footnotes.

There should never have been a second (eighteenth) resolution. I believe that Bush only agreed to it to give Blair support with his &quot;shrinking violets&quot; in parliament.

However, this has drawn out much longer than it should have. Time is to their advantage ~ not ours. The longer we wait, the more opposition there will be, both here and abroad. IMO, the window of opportunity is slipping away. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tqrolleyes.gif

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<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'>To me it looks more and more like we must need a little more time~~with Turkey out of the picture, now it looks like everything is not exactly in place yet.</span>

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I thought that the optimum strike time was these few days at the beginning of March which took into consideration the phase of the moon, and climatic temperature.

I just can't believe that our fate rests with these little countries and now Turkey, on whom we relied, has told us to take a hike, too. I've heard this explained a few different ways, two of which, seemed contradictory.

It's an absurdity, inside a foolishess, wrapped around by an asininity to paraphrase whoever it was that Ari Fleisher was paraphrasing. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mdr11.gif