The Dork at the UN

[baltodemvet]

Bush’s speech at the UN yesterday was yet another foreign relations set-back for America.

Transparently intended for domestic consumption, it was yet another insult to the United Nations and its constituent governments. This, on the part of an administration which lied to that body and used attack dog tactics in an attempt to discredit Hans Blix--who, history will record, was right.

It is a testament to the wisdom of the assembled delegates that they responded to the President’s belligerence with restraint, knowing that public expression of their understandable outrage would have been exploited for political purposes by the Bush-Cheney campaign.

[shockingelk]

1. Surprisingly I was able to doze through it

Despite the fact he said,

The dictator agreed in 1991, as a condition of a cease-fire, to fully comply with all Security Council resolutions - then ignored more than a decade of those resolutions. Finally, the Security Council promised serious consequences for his defiance. And the commitments we make must have meaning. When we say "serious consequences," for the sake of peace, there must be serious consequences. And so a coalition of nations enforced the just demands of the world.

Earth to Lt. Bush: No WMD. Request description of defiance referenced. Over