What has the UN done that makes it a target for the thugs in this

[KlatooBNikto]

administration? If you took the work of WHO ( the World Health Organization),UNICEF ( Children's Emergency Fund),UNHCR ( The hIgh Commission on Refugess) only and nothing else, the United Nations has indeed made a vast difference in the lives of millions of people.

The UN got on the worng side of the Bush junta because it did not rubber stamp Bush's wars on just everybody on the planet.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. "because it did not rubber stamp Bush's wars" Yup!

[sam sarrha]

2. kick

:kick:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. That reminds me

Did the US ever catch up on its unpaid UN dues? At one point, it was something like $500 million, as I recall.

[whistle]

4. The Bush administration wants the UN to be rendered impotent....

....for the very same reasons that Adolph Hitler had the League of Nations neutralized back when he took power in Germany. BushCo wants no opposition or unified resistance to its dreams and actions to realize American Empire (PNAC).

<snip>
THE PERFECT STORM - Part I

by Michael C. Ruppert

© Copyright 2003, From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com. All Rights Reserved. May be reprinted, distributed or posted on an Internet web site for non-profit purposes only.

- And most of the American people, with their bankrupt and corrupt economy, will welcome cheap oil, while it lasts, and they will engage in a multitude of psychological and sickening rationales that will, in the end, amount to nothing more than saying, "I don't care how many women and children you kill. Just let me keep my standard of living." -- From The Wilderness, August 27, 2002.

- What does big oil want in Iraq? To regain influence over the great Middle East oilfields... and the race seems likely to be won by American and British firms: ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, Shell and BP – Newsweek, March 24, 2003 issue

- The most common cause of recessions, a surge in oil prices, is again afflicting the global economy – The New York Times, March 2, 2003

- French and Russian oil and gas contracts signed with the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq "will not be honored," Kurdish Prime Minister Barhim Salih said in Washington Friday. – Newsmax Wires March 14, 2003

March 19, 2003 1700 PST, (FTW) – Diplomacy ended on Monday and the reality and risks of a global war are now placed in the immediate and unavoidable focus of a world which has for the most part chosen not to understand what is at stake. This war will not be fought solely with bullets and bombs. The chain of events which is about to be set in motion dictates that the United States, assuming its Iraqi conquest is successful, continue upon a series of global military occupations to control the last remaining significant oil reserves on the planet. With the shedding of the first blood, the dropping of the first bomb, the killing of the first Iraqi child, and the death of the first American serviceman, a one-way border will have been crossed. And with that crossing economic and political forces that might combine to form the Perfect Storm aimed at America have made themselves visible.

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<link> http://www.impeach-bush-now.org/Articles/Media/ps1.htm

[Kraklen]

5. They're afraid of the UN...

because they fear it could hold them accountable for human rights violations.

[gumby]

6. There's only One True Leader now.

They must be assimilated.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Hating the UN predates * administration.

That doesn't answer your question, I know, but the UN's been a conservative whipping boy as long as I can remember. The bushies just put a contemporary & convenient spin on it.