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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (67922)	1/23/2003 4:48:30 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Now you're talking. <Why reward the UN for opposing us tooth and nail? Why should they reap any of the benefit?> The important idea to focus on is that they are we, meaning you, me and the sheeple. Rewarding bureaucratic empire builders is not a good idea. If 'they' means the boss people of the UN, then certainly they should not benefit from what those who defeat Saddam's malevolence at great expense and risk to life and limb. <If we've made the hard choices, and we've done all the fighting, why let any whiff of the credit accrue to them?> Because the USA doesn't intend to stay in Iraq and run the show from now on. Better to have the UN do the work. <The UN is a sham getting shammier. I say dissolve it and start over. Set some standards for admission and weight the membership along lines that make sense and reflect reality. > Bingo! If the design of something is inadequate, it will perform inadequately. Use Iraqi oil to pay for the starting over. Let Iraq be a UN protectorate - maybe the first state of the new federation of the United States of Freedom. Why don't you or Faultline set up a subcommittee to come up with a new constitution? From the sidelines, We the Sheeple, Mqurice