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Do you think the UN is pulling a fast one on Saddam?

R

Ready

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The more I look at what's been happening, the more this feels like a classic good cop bad cop routine being performed by the United Nations with the U.S being the bad cop and the French playing the good cops..
If Iraq was given a deadline to start with, they probably would not have cooperated and we probably already be at war.
 
Sure its pulling a fast one brightboy...


...so fast its taken twelve years to pull it.
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~wnied~
 
You are giving the UN way too much credit. If you've ever been on a committee with lots of different opinions you know how little ever gets done by such identities.

The UN is lucky if they can agree on what color the sky is.....
 
Think about it. The US is giving Iraq a deadline now. Why didn't they do this earlier? The reason being that if Bush had given Iraq a deadline to start with, Saddam would probably not have given into all the demands and we be at war already. But this rountine has gotten our shoe through the door and we're slowly inching our way in. Now is the perfect time to give them a deadline.
 
Originally posted by: MemnochtheDevil
You are giving the UN way too much credit. If you've ever been on a committee with lots of different opinions you know how little ever gets done by such identities.

The UN is lucky if they can agree on what color the sky is.....
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I've been on several such committees, and a great deal can get done, it just takes strong leaders and effective compromise.
 
And even if it's not a planed out good cop bad cop routine, it sure has worked as one and gotten as quit a bit of result without actually having to go to war. A few months ago there were no UN inspectors allowed in Iraq. They the place is swarming with UN inspectors who have interviewed Iraqi scientests, gotten Saddam to destroy a few missles, and they're still making progress.

Without the bad cop (US) there probably wouldn't be any inspectors in Iraq now.
Without the good cops (France, German, and everyone else) we probably be at war now.

I think for now everything has turned out for the better.
 
It's more like bad cop, no cop.

Without the US practically beating down the doors, there wouldn't be any inspection going on at all. The UN would still be sitting on previous resolutions and thinking up ineffective ways to show their disappointment in Iraq, all the while trying not to seem impotent and irrelevant.
 
The UN is irelevent. It has been on many global issues. But it is a very necessary part of global politics. It is the foundation of many democracies,and the only sounding board afforded the member countries who do not have a voice in geopolitical affairs otherwise.

It would be stronger and more relevent IF the US would support it. This administration (as well as many past adminstrations) has chosen not to support it.
 
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