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[CSM] Critics lash out at UN, but Annan survives

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by No Worries, Dec 13, 2004.

  1. HayesStreet

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    If that were true then why couldn't we lift the sanctions after the intervention? Don't think that is so, more likely .org propaganda.

    Well, this criticism of the UN is not new. Its been going on long before the intervention in Iraq. That corruption is systemic within the UN is fact. The real question is the same as with any other system, is it worth funding and leaving decisions to? Conservatives in the US have long held that its not, so to say its 'made up' (not saying you are claiming this) is not credible. Ritter does exactly what conservatives are now constantly accused of doing, which is to throw out counteraccusations to obsfucate the issue at hand, which is Annan's complicity in UN corruption. One doesn't disprove the other.
     
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    ...:eek:

    The Schenectady Daily Gazette and New York Daily News report Ritter allegedly had an online sexual discussion with someone he thought was an underage girl. The "girl," however, turned out to be an undercover police investigator, according to the Daily News, whose sources spoke on condition of anonymity.

    WTEN-TV, the ABC affiliate in Albany, is reporting that Ritter contacted the "teen-age girl" twice within a three-month period in 2001, and that he underwent court-ordered sex-offender counseling from a psychologist in New York's capital.

    Sources tell the Albany Times-Union that Ritter actually had two run-ins with police. The first occurred in April 2001, as the former Marine reportedly drove to a Colonie business to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl. He was reportedly questioned by officers, and released without a charge.

    Two months later, the source told the paper, Ritter was caught in the same kind of online sex sting after he tried to lure a 16-year-old girl to an area Burger King restaurant.

    An attorney for Scott Ritter confirmed that the outspoken former U.N. weapons inspector, who says President Bush should be impeached for his Iraq policy, was arrested...Scott Ritter mug shot (courtesy WNYT-TV). Norah Murphy said Ritter was arrested in the upstate New York town of Colonie...:eek:
     
  3. No Worries

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    I could be wrong but after the invasion removing the economic sanction was just a technicality. The US probably violated most if not all of the sanctions by transshipping arms into Iraq during the invasion.
     
  4. HayesStreet

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    Not sure how this proves the US alone was in control of sanctions. My point shows that they weren't, as they had to get the other SC members to vote to remove sanctions.


    This is (a) pure speculation on your part and (b) irrelevant to whether or not the US alone was in charge of sanctions. In fact, if you are right on the first part then you'd most likely be wrong on the second part, since they'd only have to give themselves permission to import materials to Iraq.
     

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