BOO-FREAKING-HOO To The UN
Official of U.N. Says Americans Undermine It With Criticism
Secretary General Kofi Annan’s deputy assailed the United States on Tuesday for withholding support from the United Nations, encouraging its harshest detractors and undermining an institution that he said Washington needed more than it would admit.
“The prevailing practice of seeking to use the U.N. almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable,” said the deputy, Mark Malloch Brown. “You will lose the U.N. one way or another.”In a highly unusual instance of a United Nations official singling out an individual country for criticism, Mr. Malloch Brown said that although the United States was constructively engaged with the United Nations in many areas, the American public was shielded from knowledge of that by Washington’s tolerance of what he called “too much unchecked U.N.-bashing and stereotyping.”
“Much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News,” he said.
Quit giving them material to work with!
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June 7, 2006 - 09:48 AM on June 7th, 2006
so what? its the U.N And its always good to watch the monkeys jump around and lets face facts its a show to keep you from looking at what is really happening in this non nation or the former USA, Watch-out for the North American union! its a real U.N ideal, and Bush loves it soon much the other rats will follow it until you are a alien in this dead country.
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oh yes, “can i ask”, has Annan been eating anyone? or maybe he will eat you someday? IS THAT CALLED BASHING THE U.N ? And if so can I be shot and eaten? by some U.N. Red?
June 7, 2006 - 12:47 PM on June 7th, 2006
So why should we US tax payer continue to finance their bunch of perverts,rapists,tyrants,terrorists,thugs,crinmals and other who want to disarm us all? i say the whole rotten United Nation should be evicted and kicked out of the country and then we can go about tearing down that eye sore of a building where they live:mad:
June 7, 2006 - 01:21 PM on June 7th, 2006
SNOWY EGRET YOU KNOW WHY? Come on the rats have big guns to keep us in line for the big kill. its just a matter of time before the monkeys get real power just like in all part of the third world, but understand the guy ordering the coming mass murder will be white, see boys its all about power and the death of the USA. ASK WHO HELPED BIN LADEN WHO HELPS The mexico rich to keep power and the poor mad at us? who is killing who and ask what is the end game really all about? its not nuts to ask why, but understand someday that may just get you killed in the coming North American Union.
June 7, 2006 - 05:11 PM on June 7th, 2006
“Much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News”
Well…he’s right! How many times have we heard conservatives like Rush, Faux News and the poster above say “we should leave the UN, etc.etc.etc.”???
The Deputy Sec. Gen. even goes as far as to say “Middle America” is ignorant to the good the UN does.
I agree 100%.
June 7, 2006 - 05:34 PM on June 7th, 2006
How many times have we heard conservatives like Rush, Faux News and the poster above say “we should leave the UN, etc.etc.etc.â€???
We should leave the UN. What good is an organization that allowed it’s security council to be bribed in the run-up to the Iraq War?
June 8, 2006 - 12:44 AM on June 8th, 2006
Well San Fran, exactly how has the UN benefitted the US? Especially for the BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars we pump into it annually?
Did it send assistance to our citizens after the Katrina/Rita hurricanes? or did its officials chastise us for not ponying up even more money (despite being the largest governmental and private contributor) to the tsunami relief effort?
Did it actually do anything to stop Iraq from rearming? Or did it receive corrrupt bribes to allow Hussein to rearm in violation of UN sanctions while his people starved?
Did it actually stop terrorism and human rights abuses? Or did it put tyrannical states like Cuba, Libya, and others in charge of the Human Rights commission?
Did its blue helmeted “Peacekeepers” actually keep the peace or did they disrupt it in Congo?
Did they charge or at least dismiss the corrupt head of UN relief efforts in Somalia or did they simply transfer him to being head of relief efforts in the Balkans?
When there really is no serious upside to our being involved in the UN, exactly how are honest reporters supposed to sing its praises? Unless of course you consider having thousands of foreign nationals with diplomatic credentials running around NY totally exempt from any US law a benefit. I just can’t see it.
June 8, 2006 - 06:08 AM on June 8th, 2006
FAO- keep in mind that the UN has not yet acknowledged that North Korea is in violation of Human rights and shall we bring up Darfur to SF?
June 8, 2006 - 08:21 AM on June 8th, 2006
what “good” does the UN do? I’m still waiting for someone to inform me.. does it include child rape in Africa? Blood money kickbacks? Waste, fraud and utter incompetence?
Please help me understand.
June 8, 2006 - 08:37 AM on June 8th, 2006
Well, let’s see Mike..after they are brought kicking and screaming to table..they…well abortion comes to mind when I think of their success.
June 8, 2006 - 09:58 AM on June 8th, 2006
“what “good”does the UN do? I’m still waiting for someone to inform me…”
You people here in wacko-righty-land don’t want to be informed, you just want to live in your little bubble, only taking in and distorting bits of information that you feel comfortable with politically.
June 8, 2006 - 10:07 AM on June 8th, 2006
SF, long time no talk, how are you making out? I know it must be a sad day in SF, what with Al-Zarqawi now having assumed room temperature.. are the rainbow flags flying over SF at half shaft?
June 8, 2006 - 10:16 AM on June 8th, 2006
SF, no, you are the one who can’t handle the truth. When middle America hears the UN plans and shown the UN documents to strip them of their rights and to tax them into oblivion, of course they reject the UN.
Only people like you with a total entitlement mentality thinks the UN is good.
June 8, 2006 - 11:09 AM on June 8th, 2006
“SF, long time no talk, how are you making out?”
Hey Buddy. Alls well here in SF…foggy.
“I know it must be a sad day in SF, what with Al-Zarqawi now having assumed room temperature.. are the rainbow flags flying over SF at half shaft?”
HAHA…funny! No, we’re all pretty happy this thug is pushing up daisies…rainbow flags in same position they were yesterday.
Not so disillusioned to think that the removal of this player from the field will make much of a difference over there…as we’ve seen with other top AQ fools, more pop up in the place of the old ones.
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“Only people like you with a total entitlement mentality thinks the UN is good.”
No, not really PCD. Maybe in your little wacko-righty world, but not in the real world.
You and people like you often seem to forget that there is a difference between the two. (!)
June 8, 2006 - 11:18 AM on June 8th, 2006
Foggy, huh? It’s pretty shitty here too, been raining for days.
Look, I don’t disagree that Zarqawi’s demise dosen’t change the situation all that much, but god damn, would it be so hard for you to actually be pleased for once without having to qualify it?
You have to attack this monster of Islamofacism at the top, you are always gonna have lowly nuts running around, but without leadership, they just wander aimlessly or wither away, and that’s what we are doing, taking out the top, both secretly and (as in today’s case) very publicly.
You have to applaud that….well, I know YOU wont, but anyone who really says they love freedom should.
June 8, 2006 - 11:41 AM on June 8th, 2006
“Look, I don’t disagree that Zarqawi’s demise dosen’t change the situation all that much, but god damn, would it be so hard for you to actually be pleased for once without having to qualify it?”
Ok,Ok…SF Liberal is very, VERY pleased this man is dead. He was a terrible, terrible human being who brought nothing but pain and misery to Iraq. I heard somewhere that even his own brother in law said he was glad he was dead…clearly this guy made many enemies in Iraq for his wanton killing of civilians.
I have a sliver…a very tiny sliver of hope that maybe some of the more dramatic sectarian terror attacks on civilians might lessen now that this chump is dead.
I doubt it, but there is always hope.
June 8, 2006 - 12:26 PM on June 8th, 2006
“You people here in wacko-righty-land don’t want to be informed, you just want to live in your little bubble, only taking in and distorting bits of information that you feel comfortable with politically.
Funny, I could say the same thing about your side…:wink:
June 8, 2006 - 12:39 PM on June 8th, 2006
“…are the rainbow flags flying over SF at half shaft?”
June 8, 2006 - 12:58 PM on June 8th, 2006
You like that one, Robert???
June 8, 2006 - 12:58 PM on June 8th, 2006
I think even SF got a chuckle on that one.
June 8, 2006 - 01:22 PM on June 8th, 2006
I did.
and robert even had a funny one, too…
you guys are on a roll today!
June 8, 2006 - 01:42 PM on June 8th, 2006
SF, you’re the UN lover here, not me. You live in delusion, not me. Get that straight.
The UN is a pox upon humanity.
June 8, 2006 - 01:50 PM on June 8th, 2006
Mike that comment was a home run. Couldn’t have come up with a better one myself.
SFL, yes we’re on a roll today. It is a good day, a day to celebrate.
Ding dong, Zarqawi’s dead,
Ho ho ho, ha ha ha.
Ding dong the evil skum is dead!
It isn’t often that it is a good thing to be happy someone is dead. This is one of those rare times. My only regret is that it was probably instant; it would have been frosting on the cake if he had suffered.
June 8, 2006 - 01:55 PM on June 8th, 2006
Yeah, I mean, he expired without even having had to endure his ball bag being pointed at…
which of course, many in SF at half or full shaft would be happy to do whilst the genuine article, Lyndie, cools her heels.
June 8, 2006 - 02:00 PM on June 8th, 2006
Maybe they could prop up Zarqawi’s naked body, and fly Lynndie in for a special photo op? Think she’d do it for a carton of cigarettes and an appearance on the Springer show?
June 8, 2006 - 02:35 PM on June 8th, 2006
I’d do it for a PACK of smokes and an autograph from Steve!
June 8, 2006 - 03:18 PM on June 8th, 2006
17- Nice Robert:lol::lol::lol:
June 8, 2006 - 03:31 PM on June 8th, 2006
“The UN is a pox upon humanity.”
I’ve heard some really stupid things in my day, but this takes the cake.
I mean, you just have no idea what you’re talking about.
People who think (or lack thereof) like you are the real pox on humanity - geez! “get it straight”
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Peejz, give credit where it’s due. The gay pride flag quip came from Mike Kilo…
June 8, 2006 - 03:45 PM on June 8th, 2006
Well what exactly is it that the UN has done? You think we are all wrong in our thinking..so prove us wrong!
June 8, 2006 - 04:38 PM on June 8th, 2006
1. The UN has reigned in dictators, preventing them from doing harm to their neighbors and preventing conflict!
2. The UN has been the champion and guarantor of civilian populations the world over, preventing genocide and mass murder!
3. The UN has been the leader in implementing diplomatic solutions including economic sanctions to gain compliance from rogue nations, which has worked admirably!
4. The UN is the premier administrator and arbiter of those sanctions, dealing firmly but fairly and with the utmost integrity!
5. UN peacekeepers are the most effective of all, treading lightly when possible and spreading peace and goodwill wherever they go! They are the best of the best!
6. UN Committees and commissions are the epitome of effectiveness and models of integrity and fairness! Their human rights committee consists of nations that are global leaders in the protection and guarantee of human rights!
Oh, wait…none of the above statements are true. My bad
June 8, 2006 - 04:54 PM on June 8th, 2006
June 8, 2006 - 04:59 PM on June 8th, 2006
SF, you got my back, man!
I gotta say though, you really are lost on this UN issue.. it’s like a shitty inner city public school, it’s great in theory, lousy in reality, but you clowns just keep believing in it and keep tossing my money at it…will this ass raping ever end?
and will you finally admit, once and for all, that pointing at someones hairy bean bag DOES NOT constitute “torture”?
June 8, 2006 - 05:43 PM on June 8th, 2006
“it’s like a shitty inner city public school, it’s great in theory, lousy in reality…”
Nice analogy, but I think it’s a bit off the mark. The UN isn’t performing NEARLY as bad as you are making it out to. Sure it needs serious reform, but that goes with any aging organization that needs to adapt to the times it’s in.
Hell, our own government needs serious reform also, but we’re not writing it off as “failed” like you are with the UN.
“and will you finally admit, once and for all, that pointing at someone’s hairy bean bag DOES NOT constitute “tortureâ€?”
For most people, and the average Arab male in general, sexual humiliation is just as bad if not worse than physical torture…
Abu G. was the turning point of the war. It marks the moment when America officially lost the moral high ground in the eyes of billions.
Making light of the mistreatment of our prisoners shows a lack of understanding (why should I be surprised?) of our position in the region and with the Iraqi people in general.
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“Well what exactly is it that the UN has done?”
June 8, 2006 - 05:53 PM on June 8th, 2006
32- from your lack of an answer, I will take it that you can not think of anything..so until you do, please reserve from telling us we are wrong about the UN..
Abu G. was the turning point of the war. It marks the moment when America officially lost the moral high ground in the eyes of billions.
Says who? The anti war crowd? The press tried to make it that, just as they did with the false reports at GITMO…
June 8, 2006 - 05:55 PM on June 8th, 2006
Abu G. was the turning point of the war. It marks the moment when America officially lost the moral high ground in the eyes of billions.
Yes, because you, Wolf Blitzer and the rest of the blame American first crowd of moral relativists have somehow managed to con the world into being horrified my nutsack pointing, while seemingly being unfazed by beheadings, cowardly attacks, and detonating suicide jackets in cafe’s with 8 year old girls.
nice job.
As I’ve said many times before, having taken that oath and picked up a weapon in defense of this great nation, If I were ever a prisoner of war, and the worst torture inflicted on me was a naked twister session, I’d be dancing the happy dance.
apparently the arab male humilation dosen’t extend to blowing the living shit out of Israeli school children.. don’t feed me that sack of shit.
June 8, 2006 - 05:57 PM on June 8th, 2006
Ah the delicate sensitivities of the “Arab Male”…is that why they keep their women in virtual slavery?
Fucking cowards.. I still have yet to see one of these “insurgents” or “Al Qaeda” tough guys man up and take on a single US marine, head up.
June 8, 2006 - 06:25 PM on June 8th, 2006
No Mike, they won’t because they know they’ll get their asses handed to them. So they plant IEDs, send in suicide bombers, and hide behind women and children like they did in Hadifa.
They are the ultimate in scum-sucking cowards.
December 9, 2006 - 04:02 AM on December 9th, 2006
naked arab girls
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December 9, 2006 - 12:54 PM on December 9th, 2006
I’m reminded of Bill Maher’s (ill thought out )comment to the effect that it takes more personal courage to kill yourself by hijacking a plane and flying it into a building than it does to drop bombs on people from far, far away.
This doesn’t mean that the partisans are braver than the American soldiers (though that’s what everyone assumed that Mahrer meant), just that “bravery” probably isn’t what’s at issue here.
I agree that a lot of the partisans’ tactics are sneaky, but are they actually any more or less cowardly than laser-guided missiles fired from a safe distance?
December 9, 2006 - 01:55 PM on December 9th, 2006
More personal courage, or just be a brainwashed mindless idiot who is stupid enough to believe the 72 Virgins crap?
btw Maher is a dipshit.
December 9, 2006 - 04:42 PM on December 9th, 2006
38.
Probably just brainwashing, though they’d no doubt say the same about Americans ready to believe all of the God and country stuff.
Still, if someone did ask me which was “braver,” sacrificing your own life for what you believe in (however dumb) OR launching a missile from 500 miles away by pushing a button, I’d probably say the former (though I’d say that they’re both sort of stupid).