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Sunday, 9. March 2003
mld, March 9, 2003 at 8:23:00 PM CET

Touching Saddam's Boobies

Leafing through my referrer logs I came across this entry from Single out West.

Freaking hilarious - the French and Germans are trying to keep us from finding out they've been fondling Saddam, so to speak.

I'm so glad that the Bush43 has made it very clear that the opinion of oh, say, Cameroon, Syria, and whoever else happens to be sitting on the Security Council this time round matters not a whit. They're not going to vote on whether or not there will be a war, just whether or not the UN commits hari-kari over the issue.

I don't often quote myself here, but I think this quote from this post is worth repeating: "Trying Saddam, in the court of world opinion that is the UN, is like trying to convict a drug dealer, with his supplier, a few of his steady customers, and his best buddy sitting on the jury. A unanimous verdict will prove to be an impossible goal. Only the most naive would either expect or require it."


 

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Wednesday, 5. March 2003
mld, March 5, 2003 at 8:45:00 PM CET

They Just Put A Stake In It...

I suppose we can go ahead and just bury the stinking carcass that is the UN, after this latest joint proclamation by France, Russia, and Germany.

Here's the money quote: "In these circumstances, we will not let a proposed resolution pass that would authorize the use of force.

Dumbfucks, you already did - 1441, and about eleventeen resolutions before that. Russia and France, as permanent members of the Security Council, will assume all their responsibilities on this point.

I suppose these nations will still expect us to pay to house them in New York office space while we build them some new digs.

I don't think that's gonna happen.

Why do you suppose they did this? Well, I suggest you follow the money. As it happens, it is all about oil.

"France controls over 22.5 percent of Iraq's imports," according to the "CIA World Factbook." Some 60 French companies do $1.5 billion in trade with Iraq under the U.N. oil-for-food program. France's largest oil company, Total Fina Elf, has negotiated deals to develop and explore the Majnoon and Nahr Umar oil fields, which are estimated to hold 25 percent of Iraq's reserves. From 1981-2001, France sold Iraq 13 percent of its arms imports. 
 Russia, according to the same source, controls 5.8 percent of Iraq's total imports. From 1981-2001, however, Russia supplied 50 percent of Iraq's arms imports. Under the oil-for-food program, Russian trade with Iraq amounts to an estimated $500 million to $1 billion. A Soviet-era debt to Iraq of about $7 billion to $8 billion, generated by arms sales during the Iran-Iraq war, is still outstanding. And Russian oil and gas companies have contracts to service and develop sites throughout Iraq, with a $40 billion economic agreement between Iraq and Russia reportedly having been signed in 2002 to allow oil exploration in western Iraq.</font>

And as for Germany, I'll bet dollars to donuts that we uncover some shady sales of banned WMD equipment to the Iraqi government.

I suppose these countries thought that by spreading the load amongst the three of them, that they could somehow soften the repercussions of a veto. They are living in cloudcuckooland.


 

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Tuesday, 4. March 2003
mld, March 4, 2003 at 4:34:00 AM CET

Cox & Forkum

Newly added to the blogroll is the brand spanking new site of the egg-cellent political cartoonists, Cox & Forkum.

Here's a sample of their stuff...

a Cox &amp; Forkum cartoon

It's titled, "What's the Rush?"

UPDATE: I found a report that I thought made fitting accompaniment to this cartoon. This is from a Labour leftwing MP... "Ms Clwyd, MP for Cynon Valley, told of an under-nourished university teacher who had given birth in prison and begged guards for milk to feed her child. The guards refused and the baby died.

"For three days she held that baby in her arms and would not give the body up. After three days due to the 60-degree heat, the body of course started to smell, and [the woman] was taken away and killed."

She also told of a 15-year-old boy tortured and crucified, and pinned against the prison window. When he begged for water a prisoner who came to his aid was beaten up.

She found many refugees had been ethnically cleansed for being Kurds.

"That's the reality of Saddam's Iraq," she said. "When I hear people calling for more time, I say, who is going to speak up for those victims? Who is to help the victims of Saddam's regime unless we do it?"

She said the regime should be indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, and it was her great regret that Britain had not led the way to regime change in Iraq when it had the chance during the first Gulf war."


 

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