Iraq war illegal, Kofi Annan - The UN
POSTED BY: Ghoulman
UPDATED: Saturday, March 28, 2026 18:32
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LOL at the Dubya Haters!!!
You folks are in for quite the shock come November 3. I, for one, simply cannot wait to see the reaction when the President is reelected. It should provide some much needed comic relief in these trying times.
"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"
Kofi Annan is a vile, pretentious little villain who covers up such UN failures as the Sudan and the Oil-For-Food program (which, it is widely known, both he and al-quaeda profitted from) while failing to even be able to adequately address the humanitarian crisis in Haiti following the recent hurricane devastation.
I'd love for some political rocket scientist to explain how China's blocking (remember the guys behind Tianamen Square?) of resolutions and actions to stop the ethnic slaughter in Sudan is akin to the US's blocking of anti-Semitic resolutions against Israel, a country whose very children are victims to attacks by the bold and brave forces of Hamas terrorists. Please explain that to me.
I'll take criticism from Kofi Annan, Third World terrorist shill, as praise indeed.
stilldragons
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On the contrary,
I actually hope ole G.W. wins
With his record the past four years what could we hope to expect the next four??
War with Iran ( I see it as likely )
A Draft ( Your country is forced to threaten troops to stay in the service now... )
Draft Riots, something similar to your civil war
Continued Alienation of former allies, Elections in Britain, Poland, Australia, Italy and Japan may well have them withdrawing their support and troops, even better NATO dissolves, you lose your European bases and they deny you access to their ports and airspace... Not surprised if Japan toss's you out as well.
Trade barriers pop into place
US economy goes into the toilet
etc, etc, etc
Kerry might slow the process, might as well make it quick...
Then you can go run your little country
" If I going to get killed for a word....
Then my word is Poon-Tang "
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Originally posted by stilldragons:
which, it is widely known, both he and al-quaeda profitted from)
If it is so widely known, I'd think it'd be quite easy for you to provide us with a link. And please, a non-US news source.
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Originally posted by stilldragons:
I'd love for some political rocket scientist to explain how China's blocking (remember the guys behind Tianamen Square?) of resolutions and actions to stop the ethnic slaughter in Sudan is akin to the US's blocking of anti-Semitic resolutions against Israel, a country whose very children are victims to attacks by the bold and brave forces of Hamas terrorists. Please explain that to me.
What anti-semitic resolutions? You mean the resolution that stated that the "security wall" was a bad idea? How about Israel's policy of assasination? Good idea or bad? IMO, all bad.
Just to let you know, one can be against Israel and not anti-semitic.
Your comment on Israel vs Hamas (and the other groups) is rather (to put it mildly) inaccurate. This is a very complicated situation and cannot be simplified to black and white terms. It also suffers from the logical flaw refered to as an emotional appeal.
If you are going to post, try staying on topic and back up your comments. Conjecture gets us no-where.
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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
War with Iran ( I see it as likely )
Or Syria would be likely as well, among others.
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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
A Draft ( Your country is forced to threaten troops to stay in the service now... )
They are also quietly "re-activating" supposedly retired ones as well. This is happening right now.
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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
US economy goes into the toilet
Hasn't this already happened?
I mean, one of the major reasons why the US market is still where it is today is because Japan needs the US dollar to be high to lower the Yen because its economy is based on exports. So, they keep the US dollar artificially high.
Japan also currently owns a good chunk of the US right now. Spending money in the US is one of the ways Japan supports the US economy.
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Japan is due for a big change, they may just do it at the expense of the US as this would help them in other ways
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/09
/26/643823.html
Interesting thought about UN reform, I like the if the veto is used then the General Assembly has a vote approach
As for the US economy, it can still crash further, just needs the right push.
I thought I had read something about Kofi Annan making money from UN contracts as well though... while this is wrong, does Haliburton get a free pass to do the same ? In its recent history the United States has had its politicians based their foreign policy on their health of the stock they hold. Just research the United Fruit Company and US action in central America for the past fifty years. Sort of like a modern day East India Company... boy they hate it when someone else does it
" If I going to get killed for a word....
Then my word is Poon-Tang "
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Japan is due for a big change, they may just do it at the expense of the US as this would help them in other ways
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/09
/26/643823.html
Interesting thought about UN reform, I like the if the veto is used then the General Assembly has a vote approach
As for the US economy, it can still crash further, just needs the right push.
I thought I had read something about Kofi Annan making money from UN contracts as well though... while this is wrong, does Haliburton get a free pass to do the same ? In its recent history the United States has had its politicians based their foreign policy on their health of the stock they hold. Just research the United Fruit Company and US action in central America for the past fifty years. Sort of like a modern day East India Company... boy they hate it when someone else does it
" If I going to get killed for a word....
Then my word is Poon-Tang "
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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
Wait a minute Ghoulman,
SNIP!
No you wait...
edit - I was reading more of the posts and I thought I was being a bit too knee-jerky here so I'll edit away this post. Mainly because I think we are speaking about different things, which I'm pretty sure is my fault.
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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
I thought I had read something about Kofi Annan making money from UN contracts as well though...
This seems completely crazy to me. How in the hell would Kofi, who has served in politics honourably (unlike Dick Cheney or GWB for example) and distinguished himself with over 30 years of international service with the UN, have any 'contracts' at all - legal or otherwise.
So... as far as I know, people at the UN have nothing to do with contracts, trade, or business internationally. Never have. That's what Nations do. The UN just doesn't have any hand in the jar, as far as I know they can barely keep international trade law from being completely trampled upon, again by Nations.
I feel your statement really needs to be clarified here.
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As I had said, in the back of my mind I remembered reading something...
Not to say these are correct but here are some links
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/oil_for_food_ripoff_0
40420-1.html
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/Iraq/2004/08/13/pf-581650.html
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/9773250.htm?1c
While an internal UN investigation is ongoing, my opinion is that any judgement of Mr Annan will come throught the proper channels at the UN. If anything this points to the need for some reforms at the UN, but I don't think anyone denies that, Mr Annan as UN Secretary-General still has the right to render an opinion on the legality of any action ( or lack there of ) And any other issues ( which do exist, to some extent ) have no direct bearing on the position of the UN in these matters.
Blah, a mouthfull... I could hunt more links if this is still unclear, but I think its a non issue for this topic
" If I going to get killed for a word....
Then my word is Poon-Tang "
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Interesting... I don't have any answers here - I'll rant a bit.
I find those articles to be very skewed towards American interests. The whole Oil for food thing was a joke to begin with. Why Saddam wasn't ousted back then is highly suspicious. It's not like the Arabs wanted him around. Think about it.
The anti-UN sentiment created in the USA (and has been a part of American propoganda for sometime... especially reved up with Americas "unsigning" of the ABM Treaty recently) is a very disturbing issue.
The USA is personally responsible for most of the UNs problems (er, that we are talkiing of). Why? Because the US doeesn't support the UN in things like... actually doing something when Rwanda madmen slaughter tens of thousands. That bitch Madeleine Albright should be hacked up with a ... well, no... But, she makes one phone call and that's it for Rwanda. Sad. At least Bubba Clinton apologised. He even stated, clearly, the American position (I'm paraphrasing) - if America has no interest, it will not interfere.
I believe that translates into - American Business Interests. That is, we only send in the CIA to kill our competators in Honduras or Guatemala... we don't care if brown people kill one another. We are only interested in the Oil.
Sick.
Meanwhile - Canadian Peace Keepers have once again left the country they have been working in for nearly a decade with yet another job well done. Bosnia is a better place for having Canadians helping.
Are their any countries that can say that about the USA? Any country at all.. anyone?
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