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Title: Bush to World: Drop Dead! Post by: Ayinde on September 23, 2003, 08:36:11 PM The president lays an egg at the U.N.
By Fred Kaplan Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 2:23 PM PT Has an American president ever delivered such a bafflingly impertinent speech before the General Assembly as the one George W. Bush gave this morning? Here were the world's foreign ministers and heads of state, anxiously awaiting some sign of an American concession to realism--even the sketchiest outline of a plan to share not just the burden but the power of postwar occupation in Iraq. And Bush gave them nothing, in some ways less than nothing. In the few seconds he devoted to that subject, he cited only three areas in which the role of the United Nations (or any other nations) should be expanded: writing an Iraqi constitution, training a new corps of civil servants, and supervising elections. None of these notions is new. Otherwise, Bush's message can be summarized as follows: The U.S.-led occupation authority is doing good work in Iraq; you should come help us; if you don't, you're on the side of the terrorists. http://slate.msn.com/id/2088799/ Title: Re: Bush to World: Drop Dead! Post by: Bantu_Kelani on September 24, 2003, 01:53:41 AM http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3130880.stm
Quote French President Jacques Chirac, who led diplomatic opposition to the invasion of Iraq, also joined criticism of the US in his speech. "The war, launched without the authorisation of the Security Council, shook the multilateral system. The United Nations has just been through one of the most grave crises in its history. "No one should assign themselves the right to use force unilaterally and pre-emptively. No one may act alone," he said. Hmmm, IRAN and NORTH KOREA weren't even mentioned. Go to SEE if Bush is leading the world against the immanent threats of the day [smiley=dizzy.gif].. The consensus of almost everyone who heard his speech, is that it wasn't even directed at the UN, just the US committee to re-elect Bush [smiley=dozey.gif].... B.K Title: Re: Bush to World: Drop Dead! Post by: Bantu_Kelani on September 24, 2003, 01:55:54 AM President WEIRDO!
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