Rice: U.S. Under Bush Embraced U.N. More Than Ever

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

U.S. under Bush embraced U.N. more than ever - Rice
Tue 16 Dec 2008, 23:43 GMT

By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Many U.N. officials and diplomats see the Bush administration as an enemy of the United Nations, but U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday cooperation with the U.N. has blossomed on his watch.

U.S. relations with the United Nations began suffering after the U.N. Security Council failed to explicitly back the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and former Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared the war illegal.

From 2005-06, Washington's U.N. ambassador was outspoken conservative John Bolton, a sharp critic of the world body. U.S. officials repeatedly questioned the United Nations about alleged misdeeds in North Korea and elsewhere.

Washington also tried and failed to oust Mohamed ElBaradei as head of the Vienna-based U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency because it felt he was too soft on Iran, which Western countries suspect wants nuclear arms -- a charge Iran denies.

Read more: http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnN16275118.html

[UpInArms]

1. this woman makes me feel like I need to cough

up a hairball

[saigon68]

3. Makes me feel like an impressive Bowel movement

[UpInArms]

9. ...

[Oak2004]

2. Is this comedy day in Washington or something? nt

[MUAD_DIB]

4. It is always opposite day with BushCo.

[IndianaGreen]

5. Whatever they said, they meant the opposite

I keep counting the days and hours to the Inauguration, and it can't get here fast enough.

[sakabatou]

6. .

[Maine-i-acs]

7. "embraced" 'em to the point of electronically bugging their offices

to see how the UN reps would vote on the Iraq resolutions.

Quite the embrace there, Condi.

[lovuian]

8. Liar Liar pants on fire

and NATO should have arrested him

[tabasco]

10. That's a pretty brazen lie even for Condiliar.

Of course, they embraced the "big lie" concept a long time ago.

[bluesmail]

11. Loyal till the end. The End. Sounds great. The End.

[Bragi]

12. Does she travel with a laugh track? /nt

[dysfunctional press]

13. yeah- in the same kind of way that a rapist embraces his victim...

nt

[Amonester]

14. The little war-criminals enabler is trying to create a new reality again...

Hey, Condi: NOBODY listens to what you say. It's OVER. Giddit?

[underpants]

15. Except the part about knowing the UN would say NO so they pulled the resolution and went to war

Yeah except for that

[LynnTheDem]

16. Oh...mah....GAWD....!!!

ROTFLMAO!!!