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To: Thomas M. who wrote (18189)	12/3/2002 8:10:30 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

The UN is effective, when not sabotaged by the US. Uh-huh.... And maybe you'd be interested in buying a bridge I have for sale in San Francisco... Let's see here... Bosnia.. The US pretty much stayed out of that throughout the early '90's and let Europe and the UN handle (bungle) it... Only when US and NATO might was brought to bear was Milosevic defeated and overthrown. East Timor? Only with MASSIVE US military logistical support was that UN mission carried out. Iraq? Well, what can we say? The US and UK have been enforcing no-fly zones over the country in order to protect the Kurds and Shiite Marsh Arabs because the UN didn't give a crap... The US has been the primary power involved in insuring that the binding resolutions of the UNSC were implemented, as well as deterring a threatened repeat invasion of Iraq in 1994. The UNSCOM inspectors were bamboozled for years until Iraqi defectors revealed the massive cheating by Saddam's regime on WMD stockpiles. And even now, the UN inspectors have only returned recently because the US effectively was forced to compel the UN to do so, lest they be made irrelevant as an international power in the region. And even now, the UN inspectors take sight-seeing trips to Saddam's palaces, calling an 1 1/2 hour tour and "inspection".. Yeah Thomas... The UN is "really" effective... Anyone else here agree with Thomas?? Disagree?? Hawk