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To: Sully- who wrote (20147)	12/17/2003 4:06:44 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793587

UNITED NATIONS - Iraq's foreign minister accused the United Nations on Tuesday of failing to rescue his country from Saddam Hussein's 35-year "murderous tyranny." He urged the world body not to fail Iraq again and to return to help build a democratic nation. That is beautiful! Finally someone besides a coalition politician puts the monkey on the right back. But Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he needed "much greater clarity" on what the Iraqis and the U.S.-led coalition expect of the United Nations. That would help, Annan said, to gauge whether the job was worth the risk to U.N. staff. Annan presented the council with a report — issued last week — in which he said Iraq remained too dangerous to reopen the Baghdad U.N. office. That is pathetic! If hazardous duty or more specifically... the lack of hazardous duty becomes a requirement prior to the deployment of UN Forces, the UN truly has become irrelevant. They will never deploy except perhaps in natural disasters, and then only after all danger has past. The UN failed Iraq alright...and they continue to fail Iraq and the rest of the world. Inaction now, promises no action in future conflict resolution. I can understand a clear and present danger driving Red Cross donut dollies out of Baghdad last month...but not UN Armed Forces. If the UN is not willing to stand up and oppose human slaughter and terrorism, they have outlived their usefulness.