Rice: US will ditch UN again if the "decider" says they're moving too slow

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Rice says US could pressure Iran outside U.N
Reuters

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned on Sunday the United States might take steps outside the U.N. Security Council to pressure Iran to stop its nuclear program.

Rice, who appeared on several Sunday television talk shows, said Washington still had a number of diplomatic steps it could take through the U.N. Security Council against Iran. However, if the Council did not act quickly enough, Washington and its allies would not wait.

"I absolutely believe that we have a lot of diplomatic arrows in our quiver at the Security Council and also like-minded states that would be able and willing to look at additional measures if the Security Council does not move quickly enough," Rice said on the CBS show Face the Nation.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/print?id=1907375


my take: The US Doesn't Give A Damn About A UN Resolution (2006-04-29) The Bush regime ignored the UN in their rush to invade and occupy Iraq. This same Bush regime now wants the UN's blessing on their new imperialism toward Iran.

[savemefromdumbya]

1. Ms Vulcan is at it again

[Ms. Clio]

2. Amazing that there are pundits who call the Chimperor "Wilsonian"

To compare the President who believed so strongly in international institutions, such as the League of Nations, with this unilateral, unitary executive is a peculiarly revolting bit of historical revisionism.

[Marr]

3. We must enforce UN resolutions! We must defend the UN's relevance!

Unless they're too slow in issuing said resolutions, or the resolutions are contrary to what the Bush regime wants. Then we must ignore them and plow past the useless UN!

:P

[dipsydoodle]

4. Not too sure whom she means

when she says "it's allies". I think this is more likely to be a USA go it alone job.

[Jayhawk Lib]

5. The UN is impotent.

Maybe at one time it was potent but now it is dysfunctional.

[sam sarrha]

8. only if you believe the propaganda, Short Post, they dont do miracles

they are all we have.. what do you expect..a room full of supermen..

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6. a coalition

of the coerced

[dipsydoodle]

9. Somehow

I don't quite think the coercion is gonna work this time round. I doubt that Tiny Blur for one would dare - he's in quite enough trouble with the public here as it is. There are local elections here on Thursday and he's likely to suffer further humiliation then.

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10. caught this story:

honors from the Queen:

Captain John Peterson, chief of staff to the commander of the US Navy in the Middle East, received a CBE.

His citation praises his role of leading British and American forces in "the campaign to secure Iraqi oil assets".

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/paulroutledge/tm_column_date=28042006-name_index.html

[dipsydoodle]

12. Thanks for that

Sums up the situation here pretty well.

[sam sarrha]

7. that is when we get signs and fill the streets, shut it down.. have your

sign already made, it wont be long

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Knew it, I just knew it. Plan B has always been Plan A.

They were going to win no matter what the outcome at the U.N.

Will some well-meaning country please invade us already?!

[Junkdrawer]

13. Translation: If you (China and Russia) don't accept our bribes...

and give us our Chapter 7 fig leaf, we'll act without it and you'll lose the bribes.

The opportunity for miscalculation grows with each passing day...

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14. the idiocy is swelling, isn't it

calculated catastrophe

[Junkdrawer]

15. The big wars all start as miscalculations...Iran has great potential...

:(

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[shadowknows69]

18. "diplomatic arrows in our quiver"

These people are turly evil. Who uses weapon imagery to describe diplomacy?

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19. nothing was more absurd than putting one of the architects of the Iraq war

in charge of our offices of diplomacy.