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Subject: US to temporarily Suspend UN Membership If Security Council Fails to Act on Iraq
Topolino    3/10/2003 1:10:55 PM
Sorry to interupt the JoeMendla newswire, but there's a report in the Daily Telegraph that the Bush Administration will suspend its UN membership if the Security Council continues to dither on Iraq. The main focus of the article is actually the US/UK plan for dealing with Iran.

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Here's the UN part:

But it is proving difficult enough to get the UN to support action against Iraq. Mr Bush's most fundamental belief is that actions have consequences. If the UN behaves irresponsibly, it will pay the price. A phrase is doing the rounds: the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US.

Well-connected advisers tell me that if, as now seems likely, the UN refuses to back action against terror, Mr Bush will announce a "temporary" suspension of America's membership, to be accompanied by an offer: if the UN gets its act together and carries out long-overdue reforms, America (and its money) will return. But if there is no reform, the temporary withdrawal will, de facto, become permanent.
 
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Y. pestis    RE:US to temporarily Suspend UN Membership If Security Council Fails to Act on Iraq   3/10/2003 1:56:41 PM
I doubt that the US will suspend its membership to the UN. The power of the veto is too great. Without a presence in the UN the US will be an open target to the rest of the world. I do see the US playing with the funding of the UN. It would hurt the UN far more then just leaving. The US can withhold funding and veto at will to seriously gum up the works. I also don't see the US kicking the UN out of the US. It is a big source of income to the local economy. Those UN reps like to eat well. Why give that money to another country?
 
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American Kafir    RE:US to temporarily Suspend UN Membership If Security Council Fails to Act on Iraq   3/10/2003 7:08:36 PM
The corpse of Woodrow Wilson should be dug up, and the UN charter inserted into his withered rectum, so that the idea returns to where it came from, and is buried where it belongs.
 
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Final Historian    RE:US to temporarily Suspend UN Membership If Security Council Fails to Act on Iraq   3/11/2003 2:21:22 AM
Hey, Wilson's idea was a good one. While the guy was racist, he was a strong proponent of democracy and would have been repelled by the fact that non-democratic nations were let into the UN. The League of Nations didn't have authority and power, the UN doesn't have moral authority and is controlled by despotic and oligarchic regimes. The UN, or the idea behind it anyway, is sound in concept, the implementation, to quote Garth from Wayne's World, "sucks."
 
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American Kafir    RE:US to temporarily Suspend UN Membership If Security Council Fails to Act on Iraq   3/11/2003 6:48:45 AM
Maybe I should have said Edith Wilson's corpse.
 
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giblets    RE:US to temporarily Suspend UN Membership If Security Council Fails to Act on Iraq   3/11/2003 7:08:07 AM
I think if the USA drops the UN, firstly Britain can veto soem things for it,a nd what exactly will the UN do against the USA? Even though I am a Brit, I will admit that there is nothing the outside world can really do agaisnt it. For the majority of countries including France, the USA makes a vast percentage of trade, so sanctions are out of the way. The only other time of note similar to this is the USSR withdrawl, which led to the Korean war, however, at this point, Taiwan was acting for China, and now, the USA clearly has aims similar to the UK. The UN has shown itself to be impotent in many ways, Kossovo, Rwanda to name but two.
 
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