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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AK2004 who wrote (9825)	2/18/2003 1:38:39 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

US pays about $305 billion to UN with anything but negative results You are just a little bit wrong - by a factor of 200 at least. STATUS OF U.S. FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS TO THE UNITED NATIONS June 2002 Fiscal Year 2003 Request United Nations Regular Budget and Specialized Agencies The Bush Administration is requesting $618 million for ongoing U.S. assessed contributions to the United Nations system in FY 2003. The request, which is intended to meet calendar year 2002 obligations, includes the following: $279 million for the U.N. regular budget; nearly $27 million for U.N. war crimes tribunals; and some $339 million for United Nations specialized agencies. Among the latter, the major organizations include: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), $72.4 million; International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), $52.2 million; International Labor Organization (ILO), $50.3 million; World Health Organization (WHO), $93.6 million; and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), $12.6 million. The request conforms closely to the assessment levels approved by member states in the individual governing bodies of those organizations. United Nations Peacekeeping For U.S. assessed contributions to United Nations peacekeeping activities, the President proposes $725 million in FY 2003, a reduction of $119 million from the current FY 2002 level of $844 million. Now let's get to your other "facts" WTC tragedy has cost us about $2 trillion so far and probably as high as 5 trillion in PV The cost of WTC disaster is estimated to be around $40 billion, a far cry from your $2,000 to $5,000 billion. The WTC buildings were only insured for $3.5 billion. the war is like to stabilize economy The estimated cost of the Iraqi war of $130 to $600 billion will drive a stake through the heart of our economy. Unlike the last Gulf War, we will not be collecting tens of billions each from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Germany. that is my area of expertise That you can be off by factors of 100 show the extent of your expertise. Unless it is your expertise to be consistently wrong. That you should say we can not afford not to go to war indicates we must not go to war. Congratulations in your consistency in being consistently wrong. unausa.org