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    US infuriated by UN official's speech
    No. 2 at United Nations criticizes US
    The Associated Press (apwire)
    Published 2006-06-08 00:06 (KST)


    The United States demanded Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan repudiate a speech in which his No. 2 official broke with tradition and accused the United States of undermining the United Nations.

    U.S. Ambassador John Bolton called the speech by Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown a "very, very grave mistake" that could undermine Annan's own efforts to push through an ambitious agenda of reform at the world body.

    "I spoke to the secretary-general this morning. I said 'I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you this is the worst mistake by a senior U.N. official that I have seen in that entire time,'" Bolton told reporters.

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    In the speech, delivered Tuesday, Malloch Brown said that the United States relies on the United Nations as a diplomatic tool but does not defend it before critics at home, a policy he called unsustainable.

    He lamented that that the good works of the U.N. are largely lost because "much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News." The speech was delivered at a daylong conference sponsored by two think tanks, the Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation.
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    Wasn't that U.S. Ambassador John Bolton was the one that said destroying the top 10 floors of the U.N. building would be a good thing? That is why he was a recess appointment and the Senate would not confirm his sorry ass?

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    So why is it okay for the UN to undermine the US, and not the other way around?

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    W4A1 143 43CK? Nbadan's Avatar
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    Where's the undermining? Wing-nut spin-meisters consistantly criticize the U.N..

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    Retired Ray xrayzebra's Avatar
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    Where's the undermining? Wing-nut spin-meisters consistantly criticize the U.N..
    Yeah the UN is damn lilly white. The UN is a waste of
    our tax money. Without us they don't exist.

    Blue helmet troops raping children.

    Oil for food scandal

    Secretary Generals son in it up to his eyeballs.

    Libya on the human rights commission

    on and on and on and on.

    But no surprise that dan loves them. If you criticize the
    citizens of this country for being stupid you can be all
    bad, right dan.

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    W4A1 143 43CK? Nbadan's Avatar
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    Yeah the UN is damn lilly white. The UN is a waste of
    our tax money. Without us they don't exist.

    Blue helmet troops raping children.

    Oil for food scandal

    Secretary Generals son in it up to his eyeballs.

    Libya on the human rights commission

    on and on and on and on.

    But no surprise that dan loves them. If you criticize the
    citizens of this country for being stupid you can be all
    bad, right dan.

    There you go. The Ultimate Innsannity fan proves the UN right again.


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    Free Throw Coach Aggie Hoopsfan's Avatar
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    Where's the undermining? Wing-nut spin-meisters consistantly criticize the U.N..
    You don't think the Oil for Food scam was undermining?

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    Retired Ray xrayzebra's Avatar
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    if the un doesn't work then what does that say about mankind

    what does that say about the us? since it's our baby and everything
    Ever heard of the League of Nations. Second edition, same ending.



    There you go. The Ultimate Innsannity fan proves the UN right again.
    Yeah, dan I love the fact you will not, or cannot, face reality. The
    UN has been so wrong on so many things. But live in your little
    dream world.

    You never did answer me on who you do support. But
    I guess you cant answer that question. It is pretty complicated.

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    I love J.T. smeagol's Avatar
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    Yeah, dan I love the fact you will not, or cannot, face reality. The UN has been so wrong on so many things. But live in your little dream world.
    And the US has been always right, especially in foreign policy

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