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Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 3:30:56 pm PDT

The United Nations descends even further into the depths of absurdity, as the UN’s toothless nuclear watchdog elects Syria as co-chairman of the IAEA.

Two weeks after Israel’s alleged bombing raid in Syria, which some foreign reports said targeted North Korean nuclear material, the UN’s nuclear watchdog elected Syria as deputy chairman of its General Conference on Monday.

The 51st session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opened in Vienna on Monday and will run through Friday.

The Syrian news agency SANA proudly reported the election on Tuesday, adding that Syria was also successful in including “the Israeli nuclear arsenal as an item on the agenda of the conference.”

The agenda for the meeting includes the item “Israeli nuclear capabilities and threat.” While Iran will be a focus of the discussions, there is no item on the agenda referring to the Islamic Republic by name.

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Tags: Syria, Nuclear Weapons, North Korea, Israel, IAEA, UN

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Sizzlack Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:32:25pm

Please...get the UN out of our country...move it to Damascus for all I care...but not in the U.S...it has worn out its welcome.

GreenDroll Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:32:42pm

Anyone need more proof of how useless the UN is?

lefty201 Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:32:55pm

more proof that the UN stands for Useless Nitwits

Render Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:33:54pm

Remove th UN. By force if necessary.

WITH
EXTREME
PREJUDICE,
R

calcajun Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:34:47pm

Proof that the loonies are now running the asylum.

americanpundit Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:34:54pm

#1 Sizzlack

I actually like the idea of moving it to Damascus. Let's see how much the spoiled UN dip~~lomats~~sticks enjoy living in that peaceful, freedom-loving country.

EC Marm Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:35:16pm

OT - It's not over?
DinnerJacket visit: statements from Rudy and Hillary. DinnerJacket still wants to go despite NYPD objections.

A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.

[Link: abclocal.go.com...]

pat Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:36:02pm

I guess that having their own illegal nuke program blow up in their faces the Syrians are now looking to help out someone else.

rab3 Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:36:25pm

Syria: It is ok to do this considering Israel has already blow up all our Nuclear stuff.

Thanos Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:36:26pm

argggh ... after my day, The adadinejad thing, this, and rather suing...

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Sizzlack Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:37:01pm

re: #7 EC Marm

OT - It's not over?
DinnerJacket visit: statements from Rudy and Hillary. DinnerJacket still wants to go despite NYPD objections.

A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.

[Link: abclocal.go.com...]

They said he can go down there, but he cant go in the pit, only where everyone else is able to go...and if hes going Monday at 10am...I will be there...and I will be angry.

MJBrutus Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:37:39pm

The UN has become a parody of itself. I really think that these dudes sit around looking for the absolutely worst candidate for a position and then laugh their collective asses off when they appoint them.

Render Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:37:55pm

Way the hell off topic: WTH?!?

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

WHO ATE
DA LIZARD?,
R

Sizzlack Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:38:06pm

re: #6 americanpundit

List of possible sites for the relocation of the UN:
-Damascus
-Tehran
-Darfur
-Bosnia
-Chechnya
-Venezuala

did I leave anything out?

rab3 Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:38:29pm

Syria: We nominate Kadafi as co chair since all his Nuclear stuff is gone too.

Sharmuta Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:38:39pm

What a great way to reinforce the message that syria is not to mess with it's neighbors. Never let an international diplomat watch your child- you'll come home to a brat.

rtheyserius Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:38:41pm

UNreal.

It does have its occasional uses, though. When the Security Council votes to approve us whooping some country's ass, Russia and China pretty much abide by it.

song_and_dance_man[deleted] Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:38:42pm

Captain Jack Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:38:50pm

A dictatorship run by a "political party" modeled after nazis is co-chair of a world-wide committee to control the potentially deadliest material known to man. Nothing to see here...just keep moving.

rab3 Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:39:09pm

re: #14 Sizzlack

re: #6 americanpundit

List of possible sites for the relocation of the UN:
-Damascus
-Tehran
-Darfur
-Bosnia
-Chechnya
-Venezuala

did I leave anything out?

Just push it into the ocean and be done with it.

Alouette Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:40:42pm

re: #14 Sizzlack

re: #6 americanpundit

List of possible sites for the relocation of the UN:
-Damascus
-Tehran
-Darfur
-Bosnia
-Chechnya
-Venezuala

did I leave anything out?

Gitmo

PatrioticNaturalizedAmerican Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:41:21pm

If not the US, then at least Israel should withdraw from this pathetic terrorist-supporting tax dollar-guzzling entity.

UCK THE FUN!

Meremortal Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:41:23pm

Unfortunately the Syrians are short a few engineers after the little mishap with the nerve gas, but they do have a foundation excavated for a new UN building, courtesy of Israel.

OT: The rotating title right now is "strangely filling." Charles, c'mon, with titles like "Don't tase me, bro" available, let's make some changes, OK?

americanpundit Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:41:26pm

#14 Sizzlack

Hmm. Cuba? Islamabad? Siberia? Or, if we want to keep it in the US, I hear Barrow, Alaska is beautiful this time of year.

carl b Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:41:40pm

Not much of a surprise. Look who runs the UN's "human rights" commission. Why not put the worst abusers and most dangerous despots in charge. Israel will be condemned and the world will breath a sigh of relief at the IAEA's accomplishment, while rogue arab states continue their quest towards nuclear armageddon unimpeded. Bravo.

the historian Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:41:56pm

Having an alley of Iran in charge is normal application of UN logic. It is another elevation of the middle finger to the USA. Such action makes it impossible to take this organization seriously.

www.greensrealworld.blogspot.com

Sharmuta Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:42:17pm

re: #14 Sizzlack

saudi arabia! It's the only choice. Where else would you send the largest anti-Israel body? It's a perfect fit, imo.

Sizzlack Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:42:36pm

re: #24 americanpundit

#14 Sizzlack
Hmm. Cuba? Islamabad? Siberia? Or, if we want to keep it in the US, I hear Barrow, Alaska is beautiful this time of year.

Hmm...Barrow could work...
or we could build a new wing on one of our SuperMax Prisons

Thanos Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:42:51pm

re: #14 Sizzlack

re: #6 americanpundit

List of possible sites for the relocation of the UN:
-Damascus
-Tehran
-Darfur
-Bosnia
-Chechnya
-Venezuala

did I leave anything out?

Mogadishu
Myanmar

Sizzlack Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:43:57pm

re: #27 Sharmuta

I know I was going to put Mecca on the list but I figured theyd have to build a whole new highway for all the infidel UN members who would attend meetings.

americanpundit Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:44:05pm

#29 Thanos

Ooh! Ooh! Mogadishu. I liiike it.

pat Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:44:46pm

OT
Peter King says too many Mosques in america.
[Link: www.politico.com...]

Eri Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:44:52pm

Not even surprising anymore.

uptight Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:45:01pm

OT Fatah freezes Hamas leaders salaries

The 21 legislators are prominent Hamas members from the Gaza Strip, including ousted premier Ismail Haniyeh and senior hardline Hamas member Mahmoud Zahar. They did not receive their usual $3,000 monthly salary at the end of August, although legislators from Abbas' Faith were paid.

It warms my heart to know that I get paid more than Ismail Haniyeh!

bulwrk Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:45:12pm

If you can make the old League of Nations look effective you are truly useless.

rab3 Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:45:32pm

re: #29 Thanos

re: #14 Sizzlack

re: #6 americanpundit

List of possible sites for the relocation of the UN:
-Damascus
-Tehran
-Darfur
-Bosnia
-Chechnya
-Venezuala

did I leave anything out?

Mogadishu
Myanmar

Larry Craig's house: it is one big toe tappin toilet isn't?

uptight Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:45:36pm

I bet I've shagged more birds than him, too.

A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:46:48pm

Its like appointing a fox to guard the chicken coop.

Bloody unbelievable, well, believable from the point of view that the UN is as stupid as it is, "Stupid is as stupid does"

Oh yes, and as per previous thread, UN relocating under pressure from LGF lizards to their warmer home.

David IV of Georgia Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:47:44pm

I don't think we should get rid of the UN—just move it to a place where it will know how much we appreciate it. I think the Plover Islands off the North coast of Alaska would be a great place for it. There's an airport nearby, and sometimes you can drive across the sea to it. We could also insist they meet from November through February. Those who feel the UN actuaL³y accomplishes something would feel compelled to go. American taxpayers love supporting anti-American bloated bureaucracy.

nyc redneck Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:48:22pm

re: #11 Sizzlack

re: #7 EC Marm

OT - It's not over?
DinnerJacket visit: statements from Rudy and Hillary. DinnerJacket still wants to go despite NYPD objections.

A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.

[Link: abclocal.go.com...]
They said he can go down there, but he cant go in the pit, only where everyone else is able to go...and if hes going Monday at 10am...I will be there...and I will be angry.

just the presence of that bastard anywhere near ground zero, will be salt on an open wound. this can not happen.

RTLM Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:49:08pm

I was perusing Publius and found this post by commenter calling himself John Hussey. Relevant.

And, if we dig a little deeper we discover this: [Link: www.freerepublic.com...] "...Dr. El Baradei is married to Aida Elkachef, a kindergarden teacher at the Vienna International School. They have a daughter, Laila, a lawyer, and a son, Mostafa, a sound engineer, both of whom live and work in London, England. But perhaps the most telling information about the good doctor is found at the Italian website, [Link: web.tiscali.it...] [NOTE: You must use search words “Alberadi il Presidente di AIEA,” for the Google search to bring back a hit on this site. If you can’t read Italian, Google will translate the site into English.]

This site describes El Baradi’s wife as an Iranian, and a first cousin of Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani, one of the "brains" of the Iranian regime and close associate of the tyrant Khomenei. In the article by Dr. Kameran Pirnia, he states “...Baradei cannot be neutral toward Iran" because of his wife relationship to Mahdavi Kani. A further Google search reveals that Mahdavi Kani heads up the Iranian Militant Clerics Association, one of the main political groups in Iran’s Theo-Nazi government..."

carl b Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:52:15pm

re: #38 A Kiwi Infidel

Oh yes, and as per previous thread, UN relocating under pressure from LGF lizards to their warmer home.

I like it! Brand new land in a serene setting, with a built-in hot tub, nice seawalls and a moat all around.

americanpundit Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:54:27pm

re: #38 A Kiwi Infidel

Looks cozy.

David IV of Georgia Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:56:47pm

re: #38 A Kiwi Infidel

Its like appointing a fox to guard the chicken coop.

Bloody unbelievable, well, believable from the point of view that the UN is as stupid as it is, "Stupid is as stupid does"

Oh yes, and as per previous thread, UN relocating under pressure from LGF lizards to their warmer home.

Would the UN Ambassadors go for it? They might not like competing with natural hot air.

paxnhymn Wed, Sep 19, 2007 3:59:19pm

The MOST absurd thing about this is they let this absurdity continue on OUR soil! The Unholy Nations laughs at us!

A Kiwi Infidel Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:00:45pm

re: #44 David IV of Georgia

re: #38 A Kiwi Infidel

Its like appointing a fox to guard the chicken coop.
Bloody unbelievable, well, believable from the point of view that the UN is as stupid as it is, "Stupid is as stupid does"

Oh yes, and as per previous thread, UN relocating under pressure from LGF lizards to their warmer home.

Would the UN Ambassadors go for it? They might not like competing with natural hot air.

And stinky stuff, too!

Nevergiveup Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:09:18pm

re: #1 Sizzlack

Please...get the UN out of our country...move it to Damascus for all I care...but not in the U.S...it has worn out its welcome.

And the Israeli's have already done the excavation work on a site for the new UN building in the Syrian desert!

Lorenska Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:13:01pm

Next on the agenda: David Duke to head the NAACP, Farrakhan to head the ADL, and Larry Flynt to head up the Conservative Christian Coalition.

me Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:24:49pm

Kafka could not have done better than this.

J.S. Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:35:32pm

As I recall, just prior to 2003, when Saddam was in power, Iraq was slated to be on the IAEA. I'm just surprised it wasn't Iran's turn to play a star role at the IAEA.

gymnast Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:46:04pm

It is rather obvious that the UN has been taken over and corrupted by countries that either didn't exist or were under Axis occupation at the time the UN was founded.

Yank in the EU Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:46:50pm

The "international community" -- putting responsibility for controlling nukes in the hands of terrorists and state sponsors of terror. That's just great.

StarsandStripesForever Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:47:08pm

Great googly-moogly! The UN and the IAEA are sick jokes.

Bearster Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:47:14pm

I don't think it's that the UN is toothless or useless. I think it's that the UN serves a distinct purpose: to take the unearned moral sanction of legitemate countries like the US and bestow it upon the murderous dictatorships who don't deserve it.

As such, it has fulfilled its intent since it was formed.

What other purpose could conceivably be served by "united" free and slave, wealthy and murderous countries?

There is nothing we need from the likes of Syria.

Dom Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:47:18pm

The UN charter looks thoroughly unworkable and ignored these days. It may be time to redefine the UN.

yochanan Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:52:18pm

re: #14 Sizzlack

gaza
hell

i know i am being redundant

yochanan Wed, Sep 19, 2007 4:52:41pm

FUCK THE U.N.

Merovign Wed, Sep 19, 2007 5:16:58pm

A lot of people misunderstand the UN. Whatever the starry-eyed or otherwise origins of the organization, it is now a Good-Old-Boys Club for distators, conferring legitimacy upon them by the action of other dictators, banded together in dictatorial brotherhood.

The actual free nations have little input, because their representatives are less brazen, and thus less effective in the "club" atmosphere.

The repeated coddling of terror regimes, and insane committee assignments, even without considering the pathetic and often abusive actions of UN forces, show the organization to be hopelessly corrupt.

To say that we should "get out" of the UN is an understatement... we should recognize it as an alliance of enemy states.

To those who say we need to stay in to influence them... how's that workin' out for ya?

kulthur Wed, Sep 19, 2007 5:21:53pm

Good - let's let him come and then bring a crowd of 100,000 to lynch him. Nothing like a little tarring & feathering to clear everything up.

Truth Dr. Wed, Sep 19, 2007 5:27:12pm

And if there was any doubt as to whether the IAEA was on the case regarding Iran's nuclear project...

Airedale Wed, Sep 19, 2007 5:33:06pm

Syria needs to keep their frinds close...and their enemies closer...
Of course they need to keep a hand on the pulse rate of the IAEA.

the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Iran

chee toe Wed, Sep 19, 2007 5:40:48pm

More ahead-of-schedule Halloween fun!

Cap'n DOC Wed, Sep 19, 2007 6:45:28pm

I learned two new verbs on previous threads today - murtha and putinize.

Maybe we could send Chinless these two fools, with rather as our ace (in the hole). He could be murthad, putinized and rathered all at once.

Lauraf Wed, Sep 19, 2007 6:48:01pm

George Orwell was really wrong, wasn't he... he was off by 20 years.

canadiancrackpot Wed, Sep 19, 2007 7:25:36pm

I disagree with people who say the US should leave the UN. You can only affect change by being a part of the process, even if- ESPECIALLY IF- you disagree with it.

I would suggest e-mailing a polite but strongly-worded letter to the IAEA: iaeany@un.org and/or Official.Mail@iaea.org

Let them know!

Little ol Me Wed, Sep 19, 2007 7:43:06pm

# 65
Sounds good, but for some reason I just do not believe it would make much difference how many e mails they got disagreeing.

Kobyashi Maru Wed, Sep 19, 2007 8:02:43pm

Old saying: "Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer." I know UN "diplomats" don't pay their parking tickets, but they do provide a lot of work for escort services of midtown and elsewhere. If we make them leave, they will move to where they will fester even more, where we have no assets. Think it would be easier to keep tabs on all of those spies if the UN was moved say to Cape Town?

stevieray Wed, Sep 19, 2007 8:26:56pm

re: #65 canadiancrackpot

I disagree with people who say the US should leave the UN. You can only affect change by being a part of the process, even if- ESPECIALLY IF- you disagree with it.

I would suggest e-mailing a polite but strongly-worded letter to the IAEA: iaeany@un.org and/or Official.Mail@iaea.org

Let them know!

I don't want to change it. I want to collapse it. The UN will implode without US support.

yenta-fada Wed, Sep 19, 2007 9:59:44pm

Re #65 CanadianCrackpot

Hi fellow Canuck. I think people are hired at the UN the way they are hired in lots of places: By their friends. My neighbor is dumb, sociopathic, and lazy. He got a cushy job at Rogers because his wife KNOWS someone high up in the boardroom. I'm speculating that the same process goes on at the UN. Hell, I know it does. Some applications get more attention than others. The oil for food scandal proved that Kofi Annan's son was getting rich off that scheme.

#45 RTLM just showed us another example with El Baradei's wife's connections. Do you think a strongly worded letter could possibly bypass the obvious nepotism of the UN? It's a nice thought, but it has no influence. Seeing these weasels get Nobel Peace Prizes (Arafat, Carter, Annan, El Baradei, etc) should tell you the story. It's mostly about the money imho. OIL is a huge international currency. These people have all made a fortune with their "humanitarian services".
Grrr.

Wendya Wed, Sep 19, 2007 10:07:24pm

re: #1 Sizzlack

Please...get the UN out of our country...move it to Damascus for all I care...but not in the U.S...it has worn out its welcome.

Move it to Tehran.

Egfrow Wed, Sep 19, 2007 10:10:14pm

The Senate had a chance to keep John Bolton. They blew it. Now, onward towards the new One World Order!

U.S. 395 Wed, Sep 19, 2007 10:16:48pm

re: #11 Sizzlack

re: #7 EC Marm

OT - It's not over?
DinnerJacket visit: statements from Rudy and Hillary. DinnerJacket still wants to go despite NYPD objections.

This CANNOT be for real?!?!

Please someone tell me that this report was released BEFORE the NYPD said "NO."

I do not live in New York but if I did I would be there and gather as big a crowd as was willing to go with me - main talking point: "That bastard's country is killing OUR servicemen in Iraq! There are funerals all over America! Arrest him!"

Then charge the barricades, while repeating this to the policemen surrounding the SOB.

Charge until we are stopped, by brute force or by beanbags or by tear gas or by shots, (or some NYPD who lost family step aside for us) and don't stop until we tackle the SOB leading Iran and kick the living *** out of him. Send him back to Iran with more injuries than a naked pileup or standing on a box in a black hat.

If I was in New York tomorrow, this is well worth bodily injury, going to jail, being killed, etc., all to protect the memory of our 9/11 dead and the beast who comes to gloat. No weapons. Just hurl our bodies at the beast of Iran

Surely, for sanity's sake, NYPD will not allow Ahmadinejad anywhere NEAR lower Manhattan tomorrow. Turtle Bay only, and grudgingly, at that.

Otherwise, knowing how many police and firemen were killed on 9/11, there WILL be violence. I'm just speaking common sense here.

Before anyone thinks I'm being way out here, what if Yamamoto wanted to visit Pearl Harbor in 1943 and gaze upon the hulk of the U.S.S. Arizona as the welders removed her blackened superstructure?

Just think.

Tomorrow New Yorkers will have a chance to show their mettle.

A law enforcement source says the Iranian mission to
the United Nations has informed the Secret Service that the Iranian president
intends to visit Ground Zero Monday at 10 a.m.

[Link: abclocal.go.com...]

They
said he can go down there, but he cant go in the pit, only where everyone
else is able to go...and if hes going Monday at 10am...I will be there...and
I will be angry.

nev. Thu, Sep 20, 2007 3:06:49am

URGH
The UN has got to go.

gatorbait Thu, Sep 20, 2007 6:18:35am

Leave em where they are, but charge them a lot of rent.

samsgran1948 Thu, Sep 20, 2007 8:39:33am

re: #72 U.S. 395

No violence! Do you want the world to see the US sink to the muslims' level? No. We are educated and civil people in this country. We do not show our displeasure by roughing up the people we don't like or killing them.

Unfortunately, I live too far away from Ground Zero to participate, but I would hope that Ahmadinejad is kept from the site by a huge, huge non-violent crowd waving shoes at him. (Or are Persians not mortally offended by the sight of shoe soles as Arabs?)

kellino Thu, Sep 20, 2007 9:30:41am

We expect some absurdity from Eurocrats and the UN. We snicker when Dan Rather sues to repair his "credibility".

I'm not sure which is more absurd, but the WMD threat from Syria and Iran is by far the most serious.

It's one thing to be a blind fool, but how does one get to the point where you nominate a peace-loving nation like Syria - which when they aren't assassinating Lebaneese PM's they are playing with nerve gas on warheads and nuclear material from North Korea -- to co-chair the IEAE.

We expect absurdity from these fools, but this?!?!?

I wonder if anyone from the Leagueof Nations nominated Hitler to oversee Europe's security in the 1930's.