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UNICEF Partners with Terrorist Group

Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:17:11 pm PDT

Could it be possible that the United Nations has finally hit rock bottom?

I know, that’s crazy talk. There is no bottom when it comes to the UN.

The latest episode in United Nations insanity: UNICEF is partnering with a Saudi Arabian “charity” that is on the United Nations’ own list of terrorist organizations. Good grief.

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1 Shug  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:17:57pm

To provide low cost clitorectomies to poor girls who can't afford one

2 Sizzlack  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:18:57pm

Talk about the stupid leading the somehow even stupider

3 Desert Dog  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:19:08pm

But, it's for the children....so, it's ok

4 Iron Fist  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:19:14pm

What? Did you really expect better of the UN?

5 paxnhymn  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:19:29pm

WTF? at holloween they gonna carry pipe bombs instead of those lil coin boxes?

6 lawhawk  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:20:14pm

The better question is why they didn't partner with this organization sooner. /dripping sarcasm

7 Sizzlack  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:20:20pm

How long is it going to take for us the boot the U.N. out of our country? I'm sure Riyadh would love to have them

8 MandyManners  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:20:56pm

It supports Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah?!

9 saberry0530  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:21:47pm

It would only be a surprise if they DIDN'T select a known terrorist org.

10 mean Gene  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:22:39pm

re: #1 Shug

To provide low cost clitorectomies to poor girls who can't afford one

How pricy is it to light a cleansing fire under a broken bottle or a tin can lid?

11 alegrias  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:24:00pm

OT, but related bad judgment news:

(Today)
UN's Border Specialist from Mexico Cancels visit to inspect Virginia, USA's practices.

Mexicans Without Borders staffers HOPE to reschedule "inspections"

A United Nations official investigating Prince William County's illegal immigration crackdown abruptly postponed his high-profile trip to the community late Monday night, upsetting a slate of seven events set for today and tomorrow.

"I write to you with much regret for having to postpone the trip to Washington that I had promised you," said Jorge Bustamante, U.N. special rapporteur for the human rights of migrants.

Bustamante did not specify why the meeting was cancelled in a letter to local immigrant leader Ricardo Juarez of Mexicans Without Borders, calling it only, "something unexpected of extreme gravity."

Mexicans Without Borders coordinators would not elaborate on the reasons for the cancellation and hoped Bustamante would return at a later date.


[Link: www.examiner.com...]

12 Cygnus  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:24:35pm

They haven't hit bottom yet, but they sure are in freefall. And hitting terminal velocity about now.

13 Dar ul Harb  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:24:41pm

Oh, you meant a terrorist group besides the U.N.

14 rabidsquirrel  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:25:00pm
IIROSA Secretary-General Dr. Adnan Khalil Basha and UNICEF's Gulf Area Representative Dr. Ayman Abu Laban signed the deal.

Dr. Ayman Abu Laban. That about sums it up.

15 somaking  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:25:51pm

Its for the children.

16 MES41067  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:25:55pm

Simple fix you take a red marker and put it thru their name off the list they come see its easy.

17 alegrias  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:25:59pm

Just after we rejoined UNICEF! After many years without US participation.

Time to ditch it for good.

18 songbird  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:26:06pm

Partners with Terrorist Group? We suspected that all along and now they are finally admitting it.

19 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:26:14pm

That's not the UN I know!
/BHO

20 Maine's Michael  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:26:22pm

That's not the UNICEF I used to know.

21 mean Gene  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:26:42pm

re: #14 rabidsquirrel

IIROSA Secretary-General Dr. Adnan Khalil Basha and UNICEF's Gulf Area Representative Dr. Ayman Abu Laban signed the deal.
Dr. Ayman Abu Laban. That about sums it up.


Wait a minute.
If Islamic states start taking care of the health of their own peoples, how will they be able to blame Israel for those people's woes?

22 looking closely  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:26:44pm

Will wonders never cease. . .

23 HugoChavez  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:26:50pm

But that so-called "terrorist list" really has only two names:

Bush
America

24 Maine's Michael  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:27:11pm

re: #19 jcm

Beat me by 8 seconds.

25 Spiritualized  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:27:18pm

There are no decent UN agencies, every single one is rotten and corrupt to the very core.

26 livefreeor die  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:27:41pm

Why do we give so much money and prime real estate space to this dysfunctional organization that is so against us (and common sense)?

27 Pastorius  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:27:51pm

UN's bottom will be when they order a one-state solution in Israel, as a way of solving the "Israeli nuclear crisis", while at the same time facilitating Iran's nuclear program.

28 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:27:56pm

re: #24 Maine's Michael

Beat me by 8 seconds.

GMTA!

29 Shug  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:28:21pm

I hear they have a good pediatrician running the show

the kids just love him right up until they get their shots

30 nikis-knight  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:28:21pm

Dangit. I'm part of a group that won some money and we dontated it to UNICEF... wasn't my idea or my money, really, but I hoped that this was a non-political part of the UN (silly me) and didn't want to argue the point.
Does any one know if this is an isolated event to UNICEF specifically, or are they tied in with the usualy UN corruption.

31 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:28:34pm

The UN proudly funding rape of children and terrorist in the name of World Peace.

/

32 livefreeor die  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:28:37pm

re: #21 mean Gene

Wait a minute.
If Islamic states start taking care of the health of their own peoples, how will they be able to blame Israel for those people's woes?

Give it a second-I'm sure the KosKidz will have be able to explain this.

33 MES41067  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:28:40pm

re: #24 Maine's Michael

Beat me by 8 seconds.

34 Maine's Michael  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:28:45pm

re: #12 Cygnus

They haven't hit bottom yet, but they sure are in freefall. And hitting terminal velocity about now.

They are streaking past Uranus, still acceleerating . . .

35 Ben Hur  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:28:52pm

Ponzi scheme.

36 rabidsquirrel  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:28:57pm
That last piece of information should have been of particular interest to UNICEF officials as, it turns out, the IIRO offices in the Philippines and Indonesia have also been designated as terrorist groups by ... you guessed it, the U.N.

So a UN organization is partnering with a group designated by the UN as a terrorist organization?

It must be Tuesday.

37 Pastorius  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:28:58pm

#27 Me

Surely, I am paranoid.

(I'd better stop calling myself Shirley.)

38 MES41067  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:29:03pm

re: #33 MES41067

You said UNICEF.

39 MES41067  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:29:25pm

Damm fat fingers of mine.

40 bosforus  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:30:14pm

Saudi Arabian "charity" organization? Does that mean they offer free on-call beheadings.
We'll be at your door in thirty minutes or less or we'll blow ourselves up! Ulululululu!

41 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:30:48pm

I heard they're just trying to give the children new clothes, such as bomb vests, and toys, like rocks to throw.
Also, they're giving them acting lessons in playing dead for the media.

42 HugoChavez  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:30:52pm

re: #40 bosforus

That's Jihadi Pizza you're thinking of.

43 FreakyBoy  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:30:57pm

Cut out the middleman.

44 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:31:05pm

re: #39 MES41067

Damm fat fingers of mine.

Hah! That's not the keyboard I know!

45 Ben Hur  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:31:09pm

Bush is giving the Saudis nukes.

Because they have no oil or sun.

46 alegrias  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:31:13pm

Bill Richardson the chubby New Mexican governor, was Clinton's ambassador to the UN, ewwwww, and is considered a likely VEEP too for his crossover appeal to people who don't respect our borders.

47 Silhouette  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:31:30pm

re: #5 paxnhymn

WTF? at holloween they gonna carry pipe bombs instead of those lil coin boxes?

I'm pretty sure what the costumes will be.

Of course, all the girls will be in burquas, so we won't see the costume. And, as I read today, their voice should also be in purdah, or not heard by unrelated men, so their brother will have to say trick-or-treat.

48 rabidsquirrel  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:31:38pm

re: #21 mean Gene

Islamic states taking care of their own people? That will happen about the time I'm crowned Miss America.

49 Maine's Michael  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:31:59pm

re: #1 Shug

To provide low cost clitorectomies to poor girls who can't afford one

And suicide vests to poor Saudi youth's who, once they've bought their ticket to Afghanistan, have no money left over for explosives.

50 alegrias  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:32:00pm

re: #45 Ben Hur

Bush is giving the Saudis nukes.

Because they have no oil or sun.

* * *
You know, I know and the American People know, it was to defend themselves from IRAN.

51 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:32:43pm

re: #5 paxnhymn

WTF? at holloween they gonna carry pipe bombs instead of those lil coin boxes?

AK-47's. New version of "trick or treat" - "Pay jizzya, or die, infidel!"

52 MES41067  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:32:50pm

re: #44 jcm

Hah! That's not the keyboard I know!

LOL

53 Diamond Bullet  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:32:58pm

The UN has become so corrupt I'm more intrigued that the International Islamic Relief Organization thought it was a good idea to pair with them. It could ironically set back terrorism 50 years.

54 lawhawk  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:33:01pm

re: #45 Ben Hur

A very bad option of only very bad options left considering that Iran is going to go nuclear soon enough. He's figuring that the threat the Saudis have nukes might dissuade the Iranians - or use it as a pawn to get the Iranians to give up their nukes. Putting a chip on the table to lure the Iranians into making a concession even if the US has no interest in seeing nukes in Saudi hands either.

55 Ben Hur  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:33:03pm

re: #50 alegrias


So, when Israel or the US gets rid of the Iranian program, the Saudis will give it back?

56 bosforus  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:33:18pm

re: #42 HugoChavez

That's Jihadi Pizza you're thinking of.

Be sure not to ask for ham. It's a dead give away that you're ready to die.

57 Silhouette  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:33:42pm

To every single LLL I know, it Does. Not. Matter. what evil the UN does, because the idea of the UN (all the people on the planet coming together to talk it out and solve problems) is sooooooo right.

58 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:33:54pm

re: #7 Sizzlack

How long is it going to take for us the boot the U.N. out of our country? I'm sure Riyadh would love to have them

Are you kidding. They don't want all them infidels running around their little sand box.

59 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:34:11pm

re: #55 Ben Hur

So, when Israel or the US gets rid of the Iranian program, the Saudis will give it back?

They might, if they can figure out a way to smuggle it on an airliner.

60 Ben Hur  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:34:57pm

re: #54 lawhawk

WE are being played like a darbuka.

61 Desert Dog  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:35:05pm

Unicefre: #55 Ben Hur

So, when Israel or the US gets rid of the Iranian program, the Saudis will give it back?

Yes, by handing over a small nuke to one of their "charities", who will then put it in a shipping container and float it into New York Harbor...we'll get it back alright, but not the way we want

62 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:35:23pm

Well looks like I am gonna have to slam the door in the face of any little kid with a UNICEF box next Halloween.

63 Maine's Michael  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:35:26pm

re: #50 alegrias

* * *
You know, I know and the American People know, it was to defend themselves from IRAN.

No, because it will take them 10 years to come up with t a nuke on theri own, and there are safeguards in the deal to prevent that sort of work.

This is purely about the US stuffing a sock down the front of Saudi pants (or whatever it is they wear).

Why? Because its what we do. We must take care of our good friends the Saudis, says President Dances-With-Saudis.

64 paxnhymn  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:35:40pm

re: #49 Maine's Michael

And suicide vests to poor Saudi youth's who, once they've bought their ticket to Afghanistan, have no money left over for explosives.


now there's an oxymoron...poor Saudi youth!

" Uncle Hassan is such a cheap bastard, and I am so poor. I have to drive in a 5 year old 500SL"....

65 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:37:04pm

re: #61 Desert Dog

Unicef

Yes, by handing over a small nuke to one of their "charities", who will then put it in a shipping container and float it into New York Harbor...we'll get it back alright, but not the way we want

And when it happens BHO will look for someone with experience in National Security. The whole Kucinich as SefDef will flop.

66 Spiritualized  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:37:18pm

re: #30 nikis-knight

Dangit. I'm part of a group that won some money and we dontated it to UNICEF... wasn't my idea or my money, really, but I hoped that this was a non-political part of the UN (silly me) and didn't want to argue the point.
Does any one know if this is an isolated event to UNICEF specifically, or are they tied in with the usualy UN corruption.

U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) Board - Vice-President: Myanmar

U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) Board: China

That enough? :D

67 Desert Dog  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:38:06pm

It won't be Dennis, he'll be working the war crimes trial against Bush and Cheney.....

68 tfc3rid  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:38:23pm

The United Nations - Home of Dictator-palooza every September...

69 alegrias  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:38:27pm

re: #55 Ben Hur

So, when Israel or the US gets rid of the Iranian program, the Saudis will give it back?

* * *
From your lips to the Lord's ear!

70 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:38:53pm

re: #67 Desert Dog

It won't be Dennis, he'll be working the war crimes trial against Bush and Cheney.....

LOL! You're right! I forgot about the trials.

71 Ojoe  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:39:03pm

The children's fund?

after Beslan?

72 Sir Lurksalot  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:39:50pm

jcm # 65

The whole Kucinich as SefDef will flop.

That's SecPeace to you

73 EC Marm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:39:58pm

re: #62 Nevergiveup

Well looks like I am gonna have to slam the door in the face of any little kid with a UNICEF box next Halloween.


Nah, just drop a stick of pork jerky in the box.

74 Silhouette  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:40:11pm

UNICEF has been rotten to the core for years, maybe since the beginning.

75 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:41:22pm

re: #72 Sir Lurksalot

jcm # 65

That's SecPeace to you

Getting sloppy, I'm getting sloppy!
;-P

76 alegrias  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:42:03pm

re: #63 Maine's Michael

No, because it will take them 10 years to come up with t a nuke on theri own, and there are safeguards in the deal to prevent that sort of work.

This is purely about the US stuffing a sock down the front of Saudi pants (or whatever it is they wear).

Why? Because its what we do. We must take care of our good friends the Saudis, says President Dances-With-Saudis.

* * *
I was only pretending to sound like Bob Dole.

You're right of course. What a friend we have in OPEC!

(And I'm not enjoying at all watching Iran's mullahs telling Iraq's president what to do today, i.e., kick out the US that props up Iraq's new government). When will Al Maliki tell the world he loves the USA?

77 Spiritualized  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:43:27pm

It isn't just the Saudis are about to be handed nuclear tech on a plate, the "moderate" Islamic states of Turkey and Egypt also want to join the club.

78 tapeworm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:43:33pm

re: #15 somaking

Its for better access to the children.

79 TS  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:43:46pm

And we Americans are probably footing the whole bill...what dupes we are. They want to kill and oppress us and we fund their efforts. How they must laugh at us. *sick*

80 jorline  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:47:00pm

OT

Ever feel like this?

Funny video about a guy who totally loses it at the office.

81 RememberSekhmet?  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:48:24pm

I think that the next international organization the US tries should have a few ground rules. One of the biggest being that that all energy companies and other such procurers of valuable mineral resources all be privately-owned companies. If it weren't for the need for cheap oil and the lack of separation between government and energy company in far too many places, the Arabs would have been told to STFD and STFU a long, long, long time ago.

Saudi and the other Muslim countries with oil tie oil exploration contracts and the like to favorable UN votes. They can achieve this because the energy companies they deal with are in far too many cases organs of the same government who tells its UN ambassadors how to vote.

82 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:49:39pm

re: #80 jorline

OT

Ever feel like this?

Funny video about a guy who totally loses it at the office.

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Every efenny day!

83 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:49:59pm

re: #80 jorline

OT

Ever feel like this?

Funny video about a guy who totally loses it at the office.

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Is the Obama at campaign headquarters?

84 Shug  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:50:05pm

Charles

LGF spy is awesome

85 Desert Dog  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:50:13pm

re: #74 Silhouette

UNICEF has been rotten to the core for years, maybe since the beginning.

I used to think that maybe UNICEF was the exception to the rule when it came to UN agencies. But, they are a bloated, inefficient and politicized bureaucracy just like every other agency in that "organization". It is liberalism incarnate though -------> conceived with good intentions, but rife with rules, heavy with staff and red tape with loads of political correctness and moral equivalences tossed in to insure they will not accomplish the actual reason they are in existence in the first place....The UN achieves all that AND justifies and legitimatizes tin pot dictators, despots, and tyrants as an added bonus! Meanwhile, here in the real world, we wring our hands and wonder why we send the UN one penny let alone the billions we have already sent down that rat hole.

86 MandyManners  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:52:34pm

re: #62 Nevergiveup

Well looks like I am gonna have to slam the door in the face of any little kid with a UNICEF box next Halloween.

Just give them candy.

87 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:52:41pm

Terror Related....

Hizbullah chief assassinated after warning Syria's Assad of coup plot

LONDON — Syrian President Bashar Assad reportedly blocked a coup planned by his brother-in-law who has disappeared from public view.

The German daily Die Welt reported that Assad foiled a coup by his brother-in-law, Assaf Chawkat, in February 2008. The newspaper said Chawkat, then Syrian intelligence chief, attempted to overthrow Assad in cooperation with the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaida.

Assad was said to have been informed of the coup plans by Hizbullah operational chief Imad Mughniyeh. Days later, the newspaper said, Mughniyeh was assassinated by Chawkat's agents in Damascus.

88 jorline  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:52:52pm

re: #83 jcm

Is the Obama at campaign headquarters?

Yeppers...this was Sunday afternoon while Charles was ripping them a new one...lol

89 seekeroftruth  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:52:54pm

How many American children innocently collect for UNICEF at Halloween thinking they are helping poor children around the world? This is sick. Thanks for posting this Charles.

90 Kenneth  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:54:12pm

re: #50 alegrias

Bush is providing the Saudis with nuclear reactor technology, not "nukes".

91 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:54:19pm

re: #88 jorline

Yeppers...this was Sunday afternoon while Charles was ripping them a new one...lol

That was the either the blog moderator, or the IT security guy.

92 jorline  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:55:18pm

re: #83 jcm

Is the Obama at campaign headquarters?

It's a video of Johnson Jr.--ex-webmaster of MYBO

93 jorline  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:56:19pm

re: #91 jcm

That was the either the blog moderator, or the IT security guy.


opps...salt and pepper

94 Silhouette  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:57:39pm

re: #80 jorline

I'm more horrified by the fact that that room full of people just stood there and let him do it. Two or three men should have taken him out at the beginning, especially after he threw a monitor in a woman's face. Instead, one guy about halfway makes a half-hearted attempt, and no one joins him, then finally two come together and end it.

And one guy at the end is just taking pictures!

Where are the men anymore?

95 alegrias  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:57:56pm

re: #90 Kenneth

Bush is providing the Saudis with nuclear reactor technology, not "nukes".

* * *
Thank you Kenneth. For peaceful purposes only!

(Doesn't Iraq need electricity more than Saudis do?)

96 Nevergiveup  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:58:03pm

re: #86 MandyManners

Just give them candy.

I do and my card.
just kidding

97 Maine's Michael  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:58:13pm

re: #76 alegrias

Really, we should have seized the relatively unpopulated, oil reach northeast corner of saudi arabia, instead of Iraq.
And opened the spigots wide. It would have made perfect sense, given that most of the 911 crew were saudis, and bankrolled by the Kingdom.

Iran would have dropped what it was doing pretty quickly, and Saddam would have fallen into line.

Instead, President Dances-With-Saudis went thru all sorts of convolutions to clear Saudi Arabia and Islam, and went after a secular bad guy innocent of 911, who was well contained, though incredibly annoying. The was was fought, to add insult to our injury, to protect Saudi Arabia, and in a manner least offensive to Saudi Arabia, EVEN AS THE STINKING SAUDS offloaded their disgruntled youth and paid for them to go to Iraq to kill us!

So, here we sit, pumping a billion dollars a day into Iraq while their coffers swell with oil receipts, and they (and the Sauds, for whom the war was fought) moon us.

98 Dustyvet  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:58:14pm

The UN hit bottom, and started digging a very long time ago!

99 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 12:58:21pm

re: #92 jorline

re: #93 jorline

LOL!

Send to Charles!

100 Hard Right  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:00:43pm

re: #11 alegrias

OT, but related bad judgment news:

(Today)
UN's Border Specialist from Mexico Cancels visit to inspect Virginia, USA's practices.

Mexicans Without Borders staffers HOPE to reschedule "inspections"

A United Nations official investigating Prince William County's illegal immigration crackdown abruptly postponed his high-profile trip to the community late Monday night, upsetting a slate of seven events set for today and tomorrow.

"I write to you with much regret for having to postpone the trip to Washington that I had promised you," said Jorge Bustamante, U.N. special rapporteur for the human rights of migrants.

Bustamante did not specify why the meeting was cancelled in a letter to local immigrant leader Ricardo Juarez of Mexicans Without Borders, calling it only, "something unexpected of extreme gravity."

Mexicans Without Borders coordinators would not elaborate on the reasons for the cancellation and hoped Bustamante would return at a later date.


[Link: www.examiner.com...]

La Migra grabbed him? Sorry....

101 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:01:43pm

re: #77 Spiritualized

It isn't just the Saudis are about to be handed nuclear tech on a plate, the "moderate" Islamic states of Turkey and Egypt also want to join the club.

Tom Lehrer said it years ago

102 Hard Right  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:03:15pm

re: #97 Maine's Michael

Really, we should have seized the relatively unpopulated, oil reach northeast corner of saudi arabia, instead of Iraq.
And opened the spigots wide. It would have made perfect sense, given that most of the 911 crew were saudis, and bankrolled by the Kingdom.

Iran would have dropped what it was doing pretty quickly, and Saddam would have fallen into line.

Instead, President Dances-With-Saudis went thru all sorts of convolutions to clear Saudi Arabia and Islam, and went after a secular bad guy innocent of 911, who was well contained, though incredibly annoying. The was was fought, to add insult to our injury, to protect Saudi Arabia, and in a manner least offensive to Saudi Arabia, EVEN AS THE STINKING SAUDS offloaded their disgruntled youth and paid for them to go to Iraq to kill us!

So, here we sit, pumping a billion dollars a day into Iraq while their coffers swell with oil receipts, and they (and the Sauds, for whom the war was fought) moon us.

Please tell me you're being sarcastic. Saddam, well contained? We invaded Iraq for Saudi Arabia? Good Lord...

103 alegrias  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:03:46pm

re: #97 Maine's Michael

Really, we should have seized the relatively unpopulated, oil reach northeast corner of saudi arabia, instead of Iraq.
And opened the spigots wide. It would have made perfect sense, given that most of the 911 crew were saudis, and bankrolled by the Kingdom.

Iran would have dropped what it was doing pretty quickly, and Saddam would have fallen into line.

Instead, President Dances-With-Saudis went thru all sorts of convolutions to clear Saudi Arabia and Islam, and went after a secular bad guy innocent of 911, who was well contained, though incredibly annoying. The was was fought, to add insult to our injury, to protect Saudi Arabia, and in a manner least offensive to Saudi Arabia, EVEN AS THE STINKING SAUDS offloaded their disgruntled youth and paid for them to go to Iraq to kill us!

So, here we sit, pumping a billion dollars a day into Iraq while their coffers swell with oil receipts, and they (and the Sauds, for whom the war was fought) moon us.

* * *
You're right it's infuriating. I would have supported your plan, but we wouldn't have been respected in the world! Of course I was for overrunning Saddam in 1991, and keeping the oil then. I never forgave Bush the elder for trying to make the world happy by limiting our "mission" to removing Saddam from Kuwait.

104 alegrias  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:04:28pm

re: #100 Hard Right

* * *
Good one! We can dream...

105 jorline  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:04:51pm

re: #94 Silhouette

I'm more horrified by the fact that that room full of people just stood there and let him do it. Two or three men should have taken him out at the beginning, especially after he threw a monitor in a woman's face. Instead, one guy about halfway makes a half-hearted attempt, and no one joins him, then finally two come together and end it.

And one guy at the end is just taking pictures!

Where are the men anymore?

Snopes is still trying to verify this video...fox news said security later tazed the guy. Don't taze me Bro

106 J.S.  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:10:00pm

In Canada, the "trick-or-treat" UNICEF box was stopped back in 2006...thank heavens! (In the past, I refused to give money or provide the kids cash at the door for the UNICEF campaign -- to which several trick-or-treaters asked if I had some "religious" reason for doing so -- I said, "Yah, I'm a JW" -- as I laughed -- "it's due to my 'religion' -- in principle I don't support terrorist organizations." ok, ok, hey, they asked for a "trick"...) Oh, and somebody should update Wiki -- they're out-of-date with respect to UNICEF and donations in Canada.

107 jcm  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:13:30pm

re: #94 Silhouette

I'm more horrified by the fact that that room full of people just stood there and let him do it. Two or three men should have taken him out at the beginning, especially after he threw a monitor in a woman's face. Instead, one guy about halfway makes a half-hearted attempt, and no one joins him, then finally two come together and end it.

And one guy at the end is just taking pictures!

Where are the men anymore?

I was thinking the same damn thing. I would have sent everyone one from the room but me and a couple of guys I could trust, and hog tied the SOB with a phone cord.

I am not going let a guy throw a monitor at a women then trash where I work.

108 jorline  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:18:36pm

re: #99 jcm

re: #93 jorline

LOL!

Send to Charles!

Feel free to pass it along...thanks

109 Lyana  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:54:18pm

re: #106 J.S.

In Canada, the "trick-or-treat" UNICEF box was stopped back in 2006...thank heavens! (In the past, I refused to give money or provide the kids cash at the door for the UNICEF campaign -- to which several trick-or-treaters asked if I had some "religious" reason for doing so -- I said, "Yah, I'm a JW" -- as I laughed -- "it's due to my 'religion' -- in principle I don't support terrorist organizations." ok, ok, hey, they asked for a "trick"...) Oh, and somebody should update Wiki -- they're out-of-date with respect to UNICEF and donations in Canada.

Sorry - I didn't see what you were talking about wrt Canada and UNICEF, but around Halloween every year, the kids come home with a pledge form and snazzy UNICEF candy collecting bag. The school celebrates how much is raised.

I've book marked this for ammo for a letter to the principal next year...

110 mean Gene  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 1:57:09pm

Opposition councillor's son burnt alive by Mugabe militia


For a wad of worthless Zimbabwean banknotes, President Robert Mugabe's militias burnt six-year-old Nyasha Mashoko to death. The target of the ZANU-PF thugs had been the boy's father, Brian Mamhova. They came for him on Friday night - three truckloads of them, plus a Mercedes-Benz from which alighted three armed men in suits, Mr Mamhova said. (Snip) ''They locked the door where my wife was. They smashed the windows and threw petrol inside. Then they lit it,' .....


[Link: www.theaustralian.news.com.au...]

Gee, he's trying very hard to come close to the record of treating his people like Saddam did his people, isn't he?

111 mean Gene  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 2:01:04pm

OOPS!
Wrong Tread.

112 Mich-again  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 2:23:39pm

Does Hairy Belafonte know about all of this?

113 Ward Cleaver  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 2:59:05pm

UNICEF has been scum for some time.

114 J.S.  Tue, Jun 10, 2008 3:14:34pm

re: #109 Lyana

In Canada -- prior to 2006 -- schools would give out (on behalf of UNICEF) Halloween collection boxes at elementary schools. so kids would collect pennies/nickels and dimes for UNICEF. (Here in Canada it was collection boxes, little orange boxes -- not bags). UNICEF stopped doing this (that is, handing out the boxes to the schools and having the kids collect money on Halloween night) in 2006. I believe UNICEF said it was not "cost effective." (When kids came to my door prior to 2006, and asked for money for UNICEF -- I said, "No" and I didn't give them money -- I handed them candies. Saying that UNICEF collects monies for questionable "causes" is probably appropriate -- hmmm...saying that I don't give money to UNICEF because, in principle, I'm opposed to supporting terrorists, is meant to be a joke... an over-the-top joke...ditto about the JW (that's the bogus Jehovah Witness "explanation" -- I'm not a JW -- but it did seem to satisfy kids as an "explanation" for my not handing out money for UNICEF...) (btw, I did find it very, very troubling that UN organizations would use children like this -- and I really didn't have the time, effort or desire to attempt to "explain" my real reasons for refusing to give a monetary donation to UNICEF on Halloween...and the children were obviously disappointed...)


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