[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KiddieKorral', 'Y')ou two, opposite sides of the playground!

[trespam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '
')I get the side with the swing!!
And I'm NOT sharing the jelly beans!!

[rerere]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('trespam', 'A') public form of shame.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rerere', '
')The public shaming of SpecOp_007 is over in the hall of flames. SpecOp_007 had a post about how self-important he is, but an admin removed it, so it would seem the admins do not want such public shaming or shameful actions in public. You could call his deleted post a wollowing in the public shaming he's getting in the hall of flames thread.

Might I suggest the admins and others suggesting change to improve/modify the public discourse look into http://shirky.com/writings/group_user.html and other writings by Clay Shirky (and others) about 'electronic culture'.

Ignoring 'bad' content, hoping it goes away usually doesn't make it go away. Slashdot and the 'BSD is dying' posts in the BSD section for 3+ years is an example. The administration at slashdot finally did something and instead of 30:1 noise ratio it has dropped. 5:1 or so.

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('trespam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Specop_007', '
')I get the side with the swing!!
And I'm NOT sharing the jelly beans!!

[BiGG]

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Isn’t this interesting! Nobody would back the United States & Great Briton by enforcing the many, many United Nations Resolutions forcing Saddam to abide by his surrender terms including that crook Kofi Annan.

I wonder why that was, could it be Kofi knew all about Jacques & Vladimir lining their pockets with dirty, back-door oil-for-food money and was in on the take with them? It appears he is a liar & a cheat.

Thanks George & Tony for telling them all to get screwed and we were taking Saddam out whether it ruined their little criminal party or not. Is this war really about oil? No, its about keeping crooks like Jacques, Vladimir, & Kofi from conspiring with Saddam further screwing the rest of us.

[EnemyCombatant]

And Bill Clinton and Sec State Albright should be persecuted right there with them.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n 1996 then-UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright was asked by 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, in reference to years of U.S.-led economic sanctions against Iraq, “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

To which Ambassador Albright responded, “I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it.”

That remark caused no public outcry. In fact, in January the following year Albright was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as President Clinton’s secretary of state. In her opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which was considering her appointment, she said, “We will insist on maintaining tough UN sanctions against Iraq unless and until that regime complies with relevant Security Council resolutions.”

Apparently no member of the committee asked her about her statement on 60 Minutes. Albright was confirmed.

[EnemyCombatant]

So much for the love of Iraqi children. If we cared about Iraqi children we would not have allowed the sanctions and the oil for food scam during the Clinton administration. And we sure as hell wouldn't have allowed this. If you care about Iraqi children, then we must end this was and stand with the people of Iraq against their tyrannical regimes. There are no good guys, they were assasinated.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')AMMAN - The horror. The horror. And unlike Apocalypse Now, there are real, not fictional images to prove it. But they won't be seen in Western homes. The new heart of darkness has emerged in the turbulent history of Mesopotamia via the Hilla massacre. After uninterrupted, furious American bombing on Monday night and Tuesday morning, as of Wednesday night there were at least 61 dead Iraqi civilians and more than 450 seriously injured in the region of Hilla, 80 kilometers south of Baghdad. Most are children: 60 percent of Iraq's population of roughly 24 million are children.

Roland Huguenin-Benjamin, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq, describes what happened in Hilla as "a horror, dozens of severed bodies and scattered limbs". Initially, Murtada Abbas, the director of Hilla hospital, was questioned about the bombing only by Iraqi journalists - and only Arab cameramen working for Reuters and Associated Press were allowed on site. What they filmed is horror itself - the first images shot by Western news agencies of what is also happening on the Iraqi frontlines: babies cut in half, amputated limbs, kids with their faces a web of deep cuts caused by American shellfire and cluster bombs. Nobody in the West will ever see these images because they were censored by editors in Baghdad: only a "soft" version made it to worldwide TV distribution.

[khebab]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BiGG', '
')Isn’t this interesting! Nobody would back the United States & Great Briton by enforcing the many, many United Nations Resolutions forcing Saddam to abide by his surrender terms including that crook Kofi Annan.

I wonder why that was, could it be Kofi knew all about Jacques & Vladimir lining their pockets with dirty, back-door oil-for-food money and was in on the take with them? It appears he is a liar & a cheat.

Thanks George & Tony for telling them all to get screwed and we were taking Saddam out whether it ruined their little criminal party or not. Is this war really about oil? No, its about keeping crooks like Jacques, Vladimir, & Kofi from conspiring with Saddam further screwing the rest of us.

[Madpaddy]

I won't go into the other politicians mentioned above but I have to agree with BiGG. Annan the Ghan is a crook and since he took over the UN more Ghanains have been put into a host of appointments. My experience with the UN has thought me that the organisations main raison d'etre is jobs for the boys.

[angrysurgeon]

I dont get it...

How come the whole world is either neutral or positive to the UN idea but all the americans so goddamn negative towards it? What has your government done to you and your brains, americans?!

[RG73]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('angrysurgeon', 'I') dont get it...

How come the whole world is either neutral or positive to the UN idea but all the americans so goddamn negative towards it? What has your government done to you and your brains, americans?!

[bobcousins]

The US has a long history of getting "their man" into power, and then getting mightily pissed when he doesn't do their every bidding. Annan is one in a long line of US favourites who turn out to have more integrity and conscience than the US bargained for.

That is what really pisses off the US; not that he is good or bad, but the fact he didn't do what the US wanted. Rather like Saddam Hussein.

The UN itself was set up to serve the US (among others). Now when it doesn't play ball, it is Evil and Anti-American.

Look guys, imperial machination was invented long before the US was born. Machiavelli wrote the book. So don't try to bullshit a bullshitter, OK?

[The_Virginian]

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst061305.htm

"This week Congress will vote on a bill to expand the power of the United Nations beyond the dreams of even the most ardent left-wing, one-world globalists. But this time the UN power grabbers aren’t European liberals; they are American neo-conservatives, who plan to use the UN to implement their own brand of world government.

The “United Nations Reform Act of 2005” masquerades as a bill that will cut US dues to the United Nations by 50% if that organization does not complete a list of 39 reforms. On the surface any measure that threatens to cut funding to the United Nations seems very attractive, but do not be fooled: in this case reform “success” will be worse than failure"

And

"This new commission will create the beginning of a global UN army. It will claim the right to intervene in any conflict anywhere on the globe, bringing the World Bank and the IMF formally into the picture as well. It is a complete new world order, but undertaken with the enthusiastic support of many of those who consider themselves among the most strident UN critics."

[Dvanharn]

Sounds like a formula only a neocon could love. Time to confirm John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al, will no longer have any barriers to a successfull war on international terrorism.

Let's roll!! Let's kick some a$$. President Bush needs to solidify his legacy by truly bringing freedom and democracy to the world while squashing terrorism in it's tracks.

Dave

[The_Virginian]

Don't forget "Africa" Wolfowitz for World bank /IMF.

They finiance the wars for "peace"

[MicroHydro]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The_Virginian', 'h')ttp://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst061305.htm

"This week Congress will vote on a bill to expand the power of the United Nations beyond the dreams of even the most ardent left-wing, one-world globalists. But this time the UN power grabbers aren’t European liberals; they are American neo-conservatives, who plan to use the UN to implement their own brand of world government.

[The_Virginian]

yep Micro, your on the money. I'm pretty sure Congress Critter Ron Paul knows this as well...but comparing and contrasting the policies of "liberals" vs. "conservatives" ("neo" or otherwise) we get the idea that something is rotton in the Cockaroach colony of D.C.

Plus, it does appeal to his base of support.

[rogerhb]

Published Thursday, 16 Mar 2006 by Inter Press Service

So Bolton has used his extensive diplomatic skills and managed to alienate a full 99.4% of the worlds countries.$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he vote in the General Assembly was 170 in favour and four against (United States, Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau), with three abstentions (Venezuela, Iran and Belarus).

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '.')..I think the world is basically getting sick and tired of the US.