Is the UN a joke? - Page 2

Zap. USMC · 01-30-2003, 09:27 PM

-EXCUSE THAT LAST POINT I MADE-

I TOTALLY agree with pulling out of the UN, perhaps the US biased people out there would open there eyes when half the ruled goes to war because we're not there to enfore peace.

Vance · 01-30-2003, 09:29 PM

Ok I want to know why the League of Nations wasnt sucsessful (Im not debating, I really want to know)

Zap. USMC · 01-30-2003, 09:41 PM

Because they didn't have any "teeth" so to say.

SW-14 · 01-30-2003, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Vance1

Ok I want to know why the League of Nations wasnt sucsessful (Im not debating, I really want to know)

Also because the US wasn't in it. biggrin:

Duke_of_Ray · **Re: -** 01-31-2003, 07:55 PM

Ofcourse it a joke, anybody that puts the head of Lybia pver the Human Rights part is a joke. :)

catnip · 01-31-2003, 09:03 PM

I am voting next year. Bush is an idiot. He can't even pronounce english words correctly. For example he says newclar instead of nuclear. oOo:

Pfc.Green · 01-31-2003, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by catnip

I am voting next year. Bush is an idiot. He can't even pronounce english words correctly. For example he says newclar instead of nuclear. oOo:

God, not another..."he cant talk like I do" post.

SW-14 · 01-31-2003, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by catnip

I am voting next year. Bush is an idiot. He can't even pronounce english words correctly. For example he says newclar instead of nuclear. oOo:

Can you honestly say you'd prefer Lieberman?

catnip · 01-31-2003, 10:29 PM

I don't know who I would want until the next election comes. One day I'd like to see a black woman run.

Eight Ace · 01-31-2003, 11:29 PM

...the UN sets its agenda and sticks to the rules...unfortunately, the people they go up against don't play by the rules,
and the UN forces have no spontaneity to counter that without more meetings, vetoes etc.

...also, this sort of thing doesn,t help,

Iraq to chair U.N. disarmament conference
From Richard Roth
CNN New York Bureau
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Posted: 6:49 AM EST (1149 GMT)

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Iraq will chair the United Nations' most important disarmament negotiating forum during the
panel's May session. At the rules-minded United Nations, it's not a country's status with international weapons
inspectors, but the letters in its name that determine which member state chairs the Conference on Disarmament.

"The irony is overwhelming," a U.S. diplomat said. eek:

SW-14 · 01-31-2003, 11:41 PM

I wouldn't worry about that, chances are Iraq will be disarmed by then. biggrin: