February 24, 2003
"SHORT & SWEET":
U.S., Britain, Spain Challenge U.N. on Iraq (Fox News, February 24, 2003)The United States, Great Britain and Spain threw down the gauntlet Monday, drawing up a new resolution for submittal to the U.N. Security Council that declares Iraq in "further material breach" of U.N. resolutions and orders Baghdad to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction.The document, a copy of which was obtained by Fox News, challenges the Security Council to stick to its guns and not back down from Resolution 1441, which was passed in November and calls for the complete and immediate disarmament of Iraq -- or else.
The resolution, to be presented by Great Britain around 3:30 p.m. EST, refers to "serious consequences," but not to using "all necessary means." It does not include any deadline for compliance.
Most of the resolution refers to previous actions, but it adds two lines of new language: The Security Council "decides that Iraq has failed to take the final opportunity afforded to it in Resolution 1441," and the Security Council "decides to remain seized of the matter."
One notes that the last three world tyrannies--Napoleonic France, Nazism, and Communism--were defeated by some configuration or another of these three resolution sponsors, with at least two and sometimes all three leading the way. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 24, 2003 4:13 PM
You give a Spain too much credit.
They were hardly a major factor in defeating Nazism and Communism and the Russians and Prussians were far more helpful in whipping Bonoparte.
You give a Spain too much credit.
They were hardly a major factor in defeating Nazism and Communism and the Russians and Prussians were far more helpful in whipping Bonoparte.
You give a Spain too much credit.
They were hardly a major factor in defeating Nazism and Communism and the Russians and Prussians were far more helpful in whipping Bonoparte.
You give a Spain too much credit.
They were hardly a major factor in defeating Nazism and Communism and the Russians and Prussians were far more helpful in whipping Bonoparte.
M;
Apparently the Internet is as slow for you today as it has been for me.
Ali:
You are, with all due respect, mistaken:
http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/693
AOG:
The comment boxes here always give me trouble for some reason.
oj:
My rebuttal comes from the link below. Franco was initially far more sympathetic to the Nazis than that review lets on, shifting his stance as the war progressed.
Whatever the case, I don't feel very kindly to a man who murdered the president of Barcelona football club for political reasons.
http://www.workmall.com/wfb2001/spain/spain_history_foreign_policy_under_franco.html
This is positive spin. Most of the blogosphere considers this new resolution a sign of US/UK weakness and will enable France, Germany, etc. to delay US action far enough down the road to make it too difficult for the US to do anything. Let's hope this is the last time the Bush administration plays around with the US on this.
Posted by: AWW at February 24, 2003 10:00 PMAli:
He was a Spanish patriot, no more interested in having the Germans run Spain than the Russians and he's a hero to Jews many of whom he saved.
As you know, I'm ambivalent about dead soccer players.
AWW:
You wobble like a Weeble. :)
OJ - Yes I do. That's what I get for following the blogosphere. I believe Bush will act but every time you turn around there are more delays, resolutions, opposition, questionable administration statements, etc. Rumsfeld says we're ready, the UN and EU have been discredited, and now we're going to wait a few more weeks while the UN debates a resolution that will not get 9 votes? As I said I still believe Bush will act but all of this noise is maddening.
Posted by: AWW at February 24, 2003 10:20 PMAWW:
Savor it! Listen to these self-important nitwits--of the blogosphere, UN, EU, Hollywood, etc.--puff themselves up and make their demands. Meanwhile, you can be secure in the knowledge that they're going to be ignored and that, having been given their leads, it will hurt all the more when the leash snaps.
Sorry, Orrin; they won't "feel" a thing.
They'll always be able to claim, "We were for peace all along"; and/or "We justifiably expressed a very healthy--even necessary--skepticism towards power."
Basically, they're untouchable.
Ah, the honor, the honor....