U.S., U.K. Plans on Iraq Snarled at U.N. [AP World News]
What a nuisance the UN must seem to Mr Bush. Of course he has no respect for it anyway, has indicated several times that if the Security Council doesn't vote the way the US wants it to then it is making the UN 'irrelevant'. The quote in the article: 'Bush said a weekend of anti-war demonstrations were {sic] irrelevant to his duty to protect America' is indicative of this man's extraordinary thinking process. Here in Dublin alone 100,000 people took to the streets on Saturday last ? a very sizeable percentage of the population. So Mr Bush is saying that opinion here in Ireland and all across the world is of no consequence. He knows best.
The sheer arrogance of the whole thing would be laughable if it weren't so terribly dangerous to world peace and stability. The cynical way in which the Bush administration has entered into 'unilateral' discussions and agreements with individual member states within the EU, is prepared to offer billions of dollars in aid to Turkey in order to base troops there (and even dares to criticise the EU for holding back on Turkish admission in order to curry favour with Ankara), showers insults on France and Germany for daring to voice opposition to US wishes ? all these actions contribute to nothing more so than greater instability in every corner of the world.
Prior to Saturday's peace march the Irish Labour Party distributed anti-war leaflets. One phrase in particular stuck in my mind: "We are opposed to the domination of one super power which feels free to pursue 'regime change' on a unilateral basis for reasons of oil, economic self-interest and family pride." That hits the spot!
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