Sharron Angle: US should cut ties to U.N. (cut the program)

[catgirl]

AP/Huffington Post:

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"The United Nations resides on our soil and costs us money. We are -- I don't see any place in the Constitution with those priorities about the United Nations. So when we start talking about cutting programs, 5-percent per year, I think the United Nations fits into that category, yes," she said

Before undergoing a serious make-over last month, Angle's campaign website characterized the U.N. as an institution "captured by the far left and has become ineffective and costly."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who Angle is vying to unseat, didn't waste any time before pouncing on her latest assault on the U.N.

"Sharron Angle's extreme and dangerous agenda includes foreign policy ideas that even top Republicans say are crazy," explained the incumbent Democrat's campaign. "Republican Senator Richard Lugar rejected Angle's ideas as 'very extreme views.'"

Link to article and video:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/13/sharron-angle-suggests-us_n_681198.html

[polly7]

1. I wonder what she thinks should replace it?

PREAMBLE:

http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml

Is she by any chance a warmonger?

[catgirl]

2. I don't think she understands what the U.N. IS n/t

[polly7]

3. It sort of sounds like she believes it's a U.S. social program. Weird. n/t.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. She's another clueless raving loony like Palin

they are an embarassment

[mwb970]

4. Conservatives have apparently always hated the UN.

Actually, pretty much anything involving the words share, or collective, or group effort sends them into paroxysms of fear and rage.

Of course, the UN itself is not blameless, having set up that bike-share program in Denver 18 years ago as a prelude to taking over the city as the capital of the new One World Government.

Right.

:eyes:

[JBoy]

5. Typical Republican. Lots of money for war, no money for peace.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I couldn't begin to count the wars that were avoided b/c of the U.N.

Sounds like Angle wants to quit so we don't have to pay our decades of back dues.

[donal dubh]

7. I wish the U.N. would move...

...about every 25 years. Pick out the worst under-developed nation on the planet and move the U.N. there. The resulting impact should raise the overall standards of that nation greatly. There would need to be infrastructure and security upgrades. Building and stabilizing nations should be what the U.N. does. I fear that too many of the delegates lose their incentive sitting comfortably in New York.