Kofi Annan’s comments yesterday have created a fuss. The BBC reports:
Authorities in the UK, Australia, Poland, Bulgaria and Japan also rebuffed Mr Annan’s claims.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard described the UN as a “paralysed” body and said it was incapable of dealing with international crises.
Clearly both Annan and Howard are right, but the UN’s paralysis [...]
Iraq war was Illegal and breached UN charter, says Annan.
Too little too late I fear. The UN is now irrelevant. This is a bad fact for the US and the UK who now need it to help them in post-war Iraq, but that’s really just too bad. The UN has been revealed as a powerless [...]
14 Sep, 2004
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Keith Teare In: New Imperialism,
An amazing piece of journalism and a compelling story of the reality of Iraq.
The day after US helicopters killed many civilians - purportedly to save a Bradley fighting vehicle from being exposed to “the enemy” an eye witness, a British journalist from The Guardian, tells what happened.
It’s amazing to me that the Democratic nominee for [...]
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