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Where's The U.N. On Iran?

 

A thundering silence from the would-be defender of human rights

 

People are being killed in Iran. Where is the U.N.? What institution could be better positioned to relieve President Obama of his worries about America standing up unilaterally for freedom in Iran? The U.N. is the self-styled overlord of the international community, committed in its charter to promote peace, freedom and "reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights."

 

Iran's regime is already in gross violation of a series of U.N. sanctions over a nuclear program the U.N. Security Council deems a threat to international peace. The same regime has now loosed its security apparatus of trained thugs and snipers on Iranians who have been, in huge numbers, demanding their basic rights. Surely top U.N. officials such as Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon should be leading the charge for liberty and justice, with the strongest possible criticism and measures against the Iranian regime.

 

But that's not happening. While Iranian protesters have been risking their necks to try to rid their country of a malignant despotism, the U.N. has hardly even qualified as voting "present."

 

During the upheaval following the disputed results of Iran's June 12 presidential election, Ban confined himself to a grand total of three public utterances on the matter. In the first, on June 15, with pictures of bloodied Iranian protesters already flooding the Internet, Ban told reporters in New York that he was "closely following the situation." In words so ritually obtuse that they could have been scripted for him by Iran's supreme tyrant, Ali Khamenei, Ban added that he had "taken note of the instruction by the religious leaders that there should be an investigation into this issue."

 

The next day, June 16, when asked again about Iran, Ban came up with pretty much the same anodyne answer: "taken note ... very closely following ... just seeing how the situation will develop." Other than that, for the next six days, Ban had lots to say--but not about Iran. He sent a message to a meeting in Yekaterinburg, Russia, of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was attending as an observer, having briefly decamped from the upheaval that his own Ayatollah-blessed, irregularity-fraught "re-election" had sparked in Iran.

 

To this gathering in Russia, where Ahmadinejad posed for the cameras among a lineup of heads of state, Ban dispatched a message full of buzzwords about poverty, climate change and "combined commitment to a peaceful and prosperous common future." He made no mention of the "situation" in Iran.

 

 

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While Liberals are trying to save the whatever the fook it is the Whales Trees or ? And while Waxman is playing Captain Planet, Iranians are being killed and Obama Stuu--tt--ee--erszzz over the whole ordeal.

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Obama is agonizing over whether he is allowed to vote "present" or not.

 

The same folks who think Sotomayor should be a Supreme Court Justice, think that

 

Harriet Myers was NOT qualified.

 

But they think Obama WAS and IS.

 

ROF,L ! (it's an upside down world with liberals)

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While we're at it, let's invade Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, North Korea, Russia, China, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Libya or anyone else we have a problem with.

 

Kill all the fcukers, I say! Let God sort 'em out.

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While Liberals are trying to save the whatever the fook it is the Whales Trees or ? And while Waxman is playing Captain Planet, Iranians are being killed and Obama Stuu--tt--ee--erszzz over the whole ordeal.

 

 

Let's be honest, T, many of us know that the United Nations is a useless - at best - Piece of Ship.

 

 

 

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While Liberals are trying to save the whatever the fook it is the Whales Trees or ? And while Waxman is playing Captain Planet, Iranians are being killed and Obama Stuu--tt--ee--erszzz over the whole ordeal.

 

 

Not widely reported but, starting to emerge, are reports that the Obama administration worked behind the scenes to prevent the coup on Houduras where a dictator decided not to adhere to their rule of law - two terms - and used his military to overthrow the democratically elected the man removed from office - at least temporarily.

 

Sounds like Hugo "Fat Ass" Chavez all over again.

 

Why is the United States always on the wrong side of these things? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

 

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Two points:

  1. The reason we have a more reticent UN Secretary General is the US made clear that it didn't want another Kofi Annan who'd use the post as a podium for criticizing the United States or other member states. So it's not a surprise that Ban Ki Moon's comments didn't go beyond anything President Obama said, especially when two of the five permanent members of the Security Council recognized the Iranian elections as legitimate.

     

  2. Anyone who follows the UN knows that the situation in Sri Lanka is a much more grievous case of Ban Ki Moon & the UN not responding properly to gross human rights violations. But from what I can tell, the author of the article above hasn't written anything about Sri Lanka, which is a shame.
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Two points:

[*] The reason we have a more reticent UN Secretary General is the US made clear that it didn't want another Kofi Annan who'd use the post as a podium for criticizing the United States or other member states. So it's not a surprise that Ban Ki Moon's comments didn't go beyond anything President Obama said, especially when two of the five permanent members of the Security Council recognized the Iranian elections as legitimate.

 

And if they aren't?

 

 

[*] Anyone who follows the UN knows that the situation in Sri Lanka is a much more grievous case of Ban Ki Moon & the UN not responding properly to gross human rights violations. But from what I can tell, the author of the article above hasn't written anything about Sri Lanka, which is a shame.

 

Wait until they waterboard somebody.

Then you'll hear protests!!

 

WSS

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