Shadow of Iraq hangs over UN meet

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=4&u=/afp/20040921/ts_afp/un_040921064157

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A day after another US hostage was beheaded by militants, US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) were set to trade barbs again on the opening day of the two-week session.


Annan stoked the fires again last week by calling the US-led Iraq war "illegal" and while UN officials have blamed the comment on prodding by an aggressive interviewer, there can be no disguising the lingering anger about the war.


Throughout the past year, Annan has repeatedly argued that while terrorism may be top priority for the world's lone superpower, many people around the globe are more concerned with poverty, sanitation and the HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) epidemic.


Annan has said the rule of law should be a central theme of this year's talks -- but over the past year he has also repeatedly acknowledged that the world body has been at a "fork in the road" since the war

[acmavm]

1. Can you imagine what must go through the minds of the delegates to

the UN from other nations every time bush* steps up to the podium to speak? His already denigrated aand insulted the UN and its members openly by calling it 'irrelevant', the French are surrender monkeys, and the Germans are, I believe, chocolate makers.

He stands in front of that body as one of the biggest liars ever to lead this nation. And now he goes back again to beg for help to bail him out of the mess that they told him not to make in the first place.

It's a shame what a bad joke he's made out of the reputation of our country. And now that the war has been called illegal by Annan the the news that even the British questioned the legality of this slaughter of civilians prior to Operation Enduring Freedom (what a joke), he has the nerve to tell them that they 'owe' it to the world, meaning bush* & Co., to bail him out of his mess.

Considering that the rest of the world wants bush* out of the White House, I wonder how much support the guy thinks he's going to get?

[saigon68]

2. He will get nothing-- Its all to help his campaign

Most thinking people in other countries think he is is the dim-witted front man for the Bush Criminals and their Corporate Allies.

Don't think for one minute, that most Europeans don't see throught the Halliburton Travesty.

[Disturbed]

3. His previous visit..

was filled with arrogant strutting. This miserable failure is the shame of any alert American.