Good for Negroponte!

Now if only it would be permanent...

With Russia having sold arms to Iraq in violation of UN sanctions, and then helping block action, the futility of the UN is becoming obvious. They did not respect the UN's sanctions, and then tried to block action that would expose their perfidy.

Way to go John!!!

You've got some balls baby!

I can almost hear Dennis Leary's a**hole song playing in the background as Al-Douri was speaking...

Just keep walking... That building would be better serve the human race as a crack-house.

... only to come outside and indulge the red-herring of the "roadmap" - I guess it's understandable, even if it's counterproductive.

Same ol', same ol'. Nothing new to see here. Go on about your business, citizens.

"...As the ambassador left the building, he was seen pulling a small metal box with a red button from his pocket..."

- DEVELOPING -

John,
Did you remember to turn out the lights and lower the thermostat before leaving? Maybe our guests will get the hint and go home. The UN party is over.

"...As the ambassador left the building, he was seen pulling a small metal box with a red button from his pocket..."

Really?

Totally way to go, John!!!

Now that's some balls for ya.

Mr Negroponte: Keep walking, don't turn back!

Way to go John!

OT: I can't believe France. Who the F_ck do they think they are making demands of what should happen in post war iraq? It makes me laugh everytime I read one of these articles.

The press is also REALLY starting to piss me off. You would think that we are drastically losing this war right now by reading the headlines. And they seem to jump at any misfortunes of the coalition forces while they understate any big achievements.

What I want to know is why was the UN oil-for-food program suspended? Blair and Bush have called upon the UN to restart it and quickly for the sake of the civilian populace, but the UN doesn’t seem to be in any rush to do so. I wonder why? Kofi and Co. keep wringing their hands about the civilians; why don’t they do something for them by restarting the program?

#5 wrote:

Just keep walking... That building would be better serve the human race as a crack-house.

I think the UN already is a crack house. Judging by the things Kofi & Co. say, they're all high on something...

#13 Emmett

Blair and Bush have called upon the UN to restart it and quickly for the sake of the civilian populace, but the UN doesn’t seem to be in any rush to do so. I wonder why? Kofi and Co. keep wringing their hands about the civilians; why don’t they do something for them by restarting the program?

Sounds to me like the UN is going to use the same strategy on the Iraqis as they do on the Palis. Keep'm caged and hungry so they'll bite their "supposed" task masters.

I'd love to hear more of Mr. al-Douri's thoughts, say in May? The good thing is it's petty ticks like him sucking up to petty tyrants like Saddam sucking up to petty leaders like Chirac that are going to put Kofi in the bread line.

I say we give joint ownership of the UN to Charles, Steyn and Cox & Forkum to turn into an idiotarian hall-of-shame museum.

I'm falling in love--john, rummy,tony blair--oh my- they get my menopausal heart a flutterin'

To those of us who actually take pride in our work. Can you imagine what it must be like for this man sitting around day after day in that snake pit listening to these second rate thug powers spew lies at you and everything you stand for. I'd be heading outside for a smoke every fifteen minutes.

Turn off the lights.
Lock the doors.
The party's over.

oh jeez-not that i'd ever cheat on my georgie!!

Re: UN Oil for Food program

US & British officials want UN to release the fund ALREADY collected by UN to be release for immediate aid. Since Saddam is in no position to pay the kick-back to the UN people running the program, there is no way UN will release the money. As it stands right now, UN is holding onto about $10 billion of Iraqi money.

After the war is over, I sincerly doubt if the program will be restarted again.

OT Saddam wants exile or death

shoot me, shoot me

Geez, say it, don't splutter it.

At what point does the U.N decide to kick the Iraqi "ambassador" out. I can see the war ending and France and the other weasles not reconizing the new govt and then all of the Baath party members still around will be granted asylum in France. I do not doubt that this will happen, and then France will have 30000 more thugs and criminals in the streets. I truly fear for the Jews living in France.

#21 GW

OT Saddam wants exile or death

I prefer death.

FOR HIM! FOR HIM!

Not for me!

Phew!

*Disclaimer: I do not support terrorist or terrorism.
Having said that why did McVeigh hit OK City instead of the UN?

#23--they never will because they dont have the balls to do it- OT the iraqi guy has such a great comb-over, would you ever guess he is bald???

Take a look at this great flash photo pres dedicated to our soldiers.

What sucks is I heard about this story and when I checked the MSNBC.COM link to the story said NOTHING about him leaving the UN in the middle of the Iragi delegates speech...

Freaking amazing...

check it out...

msnbc.com

Muslims and Arabs are a prople so soaked in bullshit (hey, they give real political power to mullahs and imams who've literally read only one book -- the Quraan -- their entire life), they've begun to live in a completely parallel universe. I was perfectly happy to let them live in that universe until they decided to kill thousands of our people without so much as an emailed warning. Good for Negroponte to excuse himself from their bizarre, unscientific world.

#27--oh wow-thx for the link

#27 Nikita

Great link Nikita. Thanks.

Check this out too - protestwarrior.com, a website created to help arm the liberty-loving Silent Majority with ammo -- ammo that strikes at the intellectual solar plexus of the Left.

#27 Nikita

Verrry cool. Gives me tingles.

The Future of the UN:

1. Take the sub-organizations that are worthwhile and sping them off into their own groups (WHO, UNICEF come to mind).

2. Move the UN Security Council to Brussels (after US, UK, Japan, Italy and other members of the coalition of the willing withdraw, of course). Give France the only veto for all I care...and for all the good it will do.

3. Create the "Organization of Sovereign Nations (OSN)" based loosely on Ralph Peters proposal ([Link: www.nypost.com...] Sovereign Nations would be defined as "those who are able to defend themselves and contribute to the defense of others without imperialism." The US gets the only veto.

Waddya think?

Could someone phonically spell out 'Negroponte' for me?

I dont want to have the same social mishap i had with the name 'Joey Buttafuoco' in mixed company.

What I want to know is why was the UN oil-for-food program suspended? Blair and Bush have called upon the UN to restart it and quickly for the sake of the civilian populace, but the UN doesn’t seem to be in any rush to do so. I wonder why? Kofi and Co. keep wringing their hands about the civilians; why don’t they do something for them by restarting the program?

For the following reason:

1) The UN is collecting interest on the money they're holding. Want to bet some of that is ending up in the pockets of UN officials?

2) France, Germany, Russia, China, and North Korea all have IOUs drawn against that money. Four of those sit on the UNSC, three as permanent members. If they release that money for humanitarian aid, they'll never get repaid for their weapons.

3) Neither Kofi, nor 90% of the rest of the UN, give a rat's ass about the plight of civilians, except so far as they can abuse the US with them. Actually solving the problem would remove that opportunity.

Heh.

Double heh.

Could someone phonically spell out 'Negroponte' for me?

Nay-grow-pont-ay

OT - Rummy finally saw the light.

120,000 more troops deployed to the Gulf

#27 Nikita
That's awesome! Thanks!

Emmett: I believe the UN is still taking the stance that the serious consequences they authorized are now illegitimate, thus making the "right thing to do" to be to starve Iraqis rather admit their corruption and colusion.

Seriously, I'd introduce a resolution stating that the U.S. is the saving grace of the U.N. and the greatest guarantor of peace and freedom the world has ever known, past or present. Just one no vote, just one abstention and I'd close up shop. Next, a demand that France be stripped of permanant SC membership and veto, and ineligible to be granted such status for the next 50 years. Again, this happens or we walk.

Thanks Nikita. When Tom Petty sang "I won't back down" at a concert for the the people who were killed in the Sept.11 terrorist attacks, it sounded so apt. And it sounds even more so here.

#25-because he hated the u.s.a.-not foreign govt's, the prick-r.i.h.

#25,

Because Clinton and his band of merry Go-be-normal-americans-or-die hoologans decided to torche his home.
A good deal of the effort to that effect was conducted out of that office. It was revenge and plain and simple (and mabey even justified depending on when you talk to me). Just wait until some un numskull decides to raid some guys house without a warrent. We'll just see, oh we'll just see. That being said, I don't know anything about that 2tons of nitrous the feds reported missing... hehehehe

Nice site, Nikita.

BTW, whoever the blond chick is, she's smokin'!

Great article on oil-for-food shenanigans.
Kofi Annandersen: Enron-style accounting at the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
Have posted it a few times before, but would hate for anyone who hasn't read it to miss out. From 9/25/02.

OKBomber: You probably meant that as tongue-in-cheek, but that's not cool.

#12

Everytime I hear the vile diarrhea that falls from the mouth of anyone remotely French, I think to myself:
There has to be a retired sniper looking to practice his skills for a good cause...

I mean, come on!

We got Chiraq (he's French, easy to kill if he doesn't surrender first or if the sniper isn't sickened just by laying eyes on the soulless monster), Jung Il, Hussein, Annan, de Villepin, Putin, Any Number of Mid East Shit-hole Country Leaders (TM)...

We got loads of fun out there for some enterprising soul who wishes to do good in the world...*

*For those leftist with no sense of humor, it's called sarcasm.**

**For those who know what's really going on in the world, it's not sarcasm...

:>)

#19

just don't let laura find out!!! j/k :)

It is a little like the time I walked out on Jar-Jar Binks' speech to the Federation of Planets in Star Wars II.

17 mikeymom

ROTFL

and i am ululating with joy...:)

Just evict the pot smoking hippies from the Kofi House in New Amsterdm!

#21 GW
Let's hope one of them makes the *tough* decision to grant Saddam's wish momentarily.

It is a little like the time I walked out on Jar-Jar Binks' speech to the Federation of Planets in Star Wars II.

Strange ones those Naboo. Smart enough to build those beautiful art deco spaceships, yet they elect love struck 14 year olds Queen.

And don't get me started about their "occupation" of the Gungans.

Still they are light years ahead of France!

I read something yesterday which said that Kofi was trying to get the Oil for Food funds released, but France, Russia and China were refusing. (I don't recall seeing Germany on the list though.) They seem to feel that because the war is "illegal", as the "agressors", we should be paying for all humanitarian aid for the foreseeable future. This further explains why France thinks it should administer a post-war Iraq, so they can get their hands on all the Oil money, to no benefit to the Iraqi People.

Wait till they need some humanitarian aid... (muttering darkly)

Oh, and if the Iraqi ambassador thinks we're waging war on the Iraqi people now, what would he say if we actually were?

"It is a little like the time I walked out on Jar-Jar Binks' speech to the Federation of Planets in Star Wars II."

Negroponte would have stayed for that.

I can't understand how Negroponte could stay for five minutes of that bullshit. All US ambassadors to the UN must have to take mega-tranquilizers to listen without exploding.

To #17 mikeymom--ditto for me. Especially Blair. I always thought eloquence in a righteous cause to be extremely attractive. It's a commodity sorely lacking these days (not to mention, he's kinda cute).

The UN--stick a fork in it, it's done.

It is a little like the time I walked out on Jar-Jar Binks' speech to the Federation of Planets in Star Wars II

There were those of us in the Senate that applauded your move. And for all his awful traits, Jar-Jar still couldn't top the bantha dung that came out of Man-sewer el-Boor-i's falafel hole...

#49--its ok- we agreed to share-lots of manhood to go a
round
#51-um depends on what you are ululating on-lolo!!

A worthy successor to Pat Moynihan, may he rest in peace.

All these damn diplomats need to start communicating how PISSED OFF Americans are getting. If they don't, they're NOT DOING THEIR JOB.

In case you didn't know, I'm SEETHING...

I can't understand how Negroponte could stay for five minutes of that bullshit. All US ambassadors to the UN must have to take mega-tranquilizers to listen without exploding.

If you think that's bad, imagine what Israeli ambassadors have to put up with - knowing their country is the only one in the UN which can't serve on a regional committee and rotate onto the UNSC, constant vilification and spurious resolutions, the humiliation of having to be protected by the US, all the UN agencies which fund and whine about the Palestinians . . .

Video of the walk out is here at the UN webcast website. If you want to skip most of the Iraqi babel just fast forward. Negroponte walked out 9 minutes into the 12 minute rant. I think the Iraqi diplomat looked a little peaved aftwewards. hehe

Based on a report from the BBC, France is on its way to mending fences, at least with the UK. According to the BBC, de Villepin gave a speech in London today. To wit:

de Villepin is actually a handsome man, and one feels like all of France speaks with him. And, he is a poet.
So anyway, a guy down in the front row is a lord. He goes by Sir Weston, but he also answers to Sir John. And he is also a poet. And he wrote a poem and there are these two lines in it. He says he basically stole them from Philip Larkin, but poems is poems, and we all know the power of poems. And de Villepin would probably like the two lines, except that he hasn't read the poem. But the point is that he would like them and a Brit wrote them, and they basically say that common-sense should not be moral.

Hopefully you understand now.

BBC: France's de Villepin is a poet

I see Villepin is a poet,
Whose hair has a beautiful flow. It's
A long wavy mane
That encumbers his brain,
So he can't be expected to know it.

'One thing he did emphasise. The UN should take control of Iraq after the war.

His words were: "The UN must be at the heart of the reconstruction and administration of Iraq. The legitimacy of our action depends on it. We must come together to build peace together."'

Apparently the frenchman has a mouse in his pocket.

#27 Nikita..Thank you, thank you.

Re; the UN, I think it's time for the US to tell the UN where to go. We have to put up with everyone's rants against us. It's time just to tell them how it really is, that we're not taking it anymore. We'll keep our $$$ from now on. Kofi and company are the biggest bunch of hypocrites around.

Wasn't Al-Gouri one of Bill Clinton's attorneys?

Al Gore, Al-Douri, it all gets so confusing...never mind

You know what's going to be great? As soon as Husein's regime falls, this cretin's diplomatic credentials will be instantly revoked and he will either return home to face the music or be arrested right here in the U.S. Something to look forward to.

WSJ March 27, 2003, p. 1 col. 1:

The German ambassador to the UN boasted in a confidential email to his foreign ministry that their [France's and Germany's] strategy was to isolate the US and make it 'repetently come back to the Security Council

Nuff said.

Maybe al Douri can get Charley Rangle to help him fill out his application for La Food Stamps. I'm sure charley speaks Franwch.

It would have been more appropriate if Negroponte had walked over to the Iraqi speaker and punched him out, then declared the session over until the delegates developed a bit more cooth.

You know, after watching the MSNBC coverage of the humanitarian aid efforts in the south, I'm really beginning to think that the only way to finish this is to turn the entire country into plate glass. Watching those poor British troops trying to dispense food and water to packs of human hyenas was just totally disgusting. I mean, it's hopeless. Almost two generations of brainwashing - how do we overcome that? The country is infected with Saddam sympathisers - it's going to take 30 years to get rid of them all. . .

#76 Exactly.

Mr. Negroponte acted like a true patriot. He made us proud.

Is he from the, "Greatest generation era."

Now if Bloomberg would kick the UN out of NYC...

And Pres., Bush would kick them out of the country...

It would be my proudest day as an American.

(Isolation from those dregs is a good thing.)

snopes (#39): This is one huge non-story, despite being flogged all over the media. Those were all movements that were planned in the first place; if we started out one division short it's because of the Turks' underhanded backstab. The 4th Infantry is finally arriving as their stuff gets moved to Kuwait from Turkey, and the other guys are filling out the North where the 4th should have been.

As Rummy said this afternoon: it's not in response to anything in the conflict.

#78 someone - Yeah, I heard that after I posted. I don't think the issue of number of troops is a non-story though. I posted Ralph Peters' column in another thread. He feels that the total number of troops is still too low and will cause coalition deaths. He also noted that Rumsfeld and Franks fought over the number - Rumsfeld originally wanted less than Franks requested. The idea of rolling troops into the area has also criticized by former military.

I just think of that dickwad Iraqi UN ambassador as Mohammed al-Combover. Jeez, dude, either cut it off or get a toupee. You ain't foolin' nobody...

"US ambassador to UN - paid to represent US and negotiate at security council level - walks off, does not do job fully." Hmm great story, right up there with
"Policeman finds jaywalker too annoying to deal with, gives up on arrest, gives up on whole notion of rule of law, beats jaywalker to death."

Right up there with:

"It's not about oil!"
Oil supply predicted to run into crisis 2010 (independent research), 2014 (BP research), 2017 (BRD) or 2025 (Shell). Post-saddam reconstruction people say, well, understandably the people who liberated us will be looked on favourably in future deals. (cough cough).

And as for the "Why not regime change in Venezuela if we're so oil hungry?" line...watch the Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain documentary on the Chavez affair, assuming it gets to a cinema near you.

Love those US tanks doing half a mile to the gallon.

Love that incompetent shooting of our own side...how many times in just a few short days. Love that euphemism "friendly fire" too.

Love the trotting out of Clausewitz "first contact with the enemy line" everytime people ask why things aren't going as advertised.

Love that coalition of the willing - countries willing to put themselves out as much as, say, giving "civilian aircraft landing rights". Spain providing only auxiliary, medical and defensive troops instead of the planned aircraft carrier. Hee hee.

Iraq's a country with high rates of gun ownership - but anyone in civilian clothes shooting at the "Coalition forces" must be a disguised soldier, a mad regime sympathiser, or a secret policeman. Not just some random person pissed off at being invaded.

Love the idea that wearing a headscarf oppresses a woman more than the disrespect for women shown in the West; love the idea that it's even possible to make pat comparisons between the two cultures.

Love you guys!

Love how some people can completely ignore Saddam's atrocities and just recite "it's all about oil". Heck, if you're going to talk about who's greedy for oil, how about France and Russia and the United Nations? The UN makes more money off of sanctioned Iraq than it does by conducting regular business. France and Russia buy Iraqi oil through the OFF program, and then re-sell it at a profit. All of this can happen because the US is bearing the cost of keeping troops in place around Iraq in order to impose the sanctions.

Love how you can trivialize the position of women in society, too. "Disrespect"? It's not disrespectful to shoot a woman in front of her children? It's not disrespectful to be raped at the whim of a Baath official? It's not disrespectful for a menstruating woman to be hung upside down by her heels? But no, according to you all the Iraqi women are subject to is wearing headscarves, and pointing out the reality of what they suffer is "pat".

As for our ambassador not doing his job, well, I'd say he echoed our national character and sentiment a lot better by walking out on a raving and paranoid anti-American rant than he would have by staying.