Wall St. Journal
Our Friends at the U.N.
Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:01 a.m. EST
President Bush is understandably losing patience with the U.N. on Iraq,
noting yesterday that Saddam Hussein "is a person who has made the United
Nations look foolish." We all know about the French and Russians, but
lately Mexican President Vicente Fox has also joined the soft-on-Saddam queue.
This council of conciliation is working to water down any use-of-force
resolution to the point that it would prop up Saddam more than disarm him.
Among other phrases, the countries object to declaring that Saddam is in
"material breach" of earlier U.N. resolutions. Iraq has spent the past
decade expelling U.N. arms inspectors, as well as trying to rearm with the
most dangerous weapons possible, and this isn't a "breach" of disarmament
promises? What is it, a foot fault?
If Iraq isn't violating U.N. resolutions, then the world can forget about
every future U.N. resolution too. They clearly mean nothing at all. The
Franco-Russian-Mexican position isn't diplomacy so much as a denial of
reality. Instead of attempting to enforce the 1990 and 1991 U.N.
resolutions, they are walking away from them.
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So: those of you support the UNSC's role in this - how do you defend the
objection of the UNSC to even declaring Iraq in "material breach" of
previous UN resolutions? As the WSJ says, this isn't diplomacy, it is
denial of reality.
Latest projected vote count:
YES (Nine Needed for Passage):
United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Bulgaria, Colombia, Singapore,
Mauritius
NO
Syria
ABSTAIN
China, Russian Federation, France
SWING VOTES:
Ireland, Mexico, Guinea, Cameroon
Yes folks, the fate of the world may well rest in the hands of Guinea or
Cameroon, should Ireland or Mexico choose to abstain from voting.
JDG
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John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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