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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on September 24, 2009, 08:04:37 AM
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‘African King of Kings’ Makes Waves in New York, Offers to Move U.N. to Libya
(CNSNews.com) – It took 40 years in power before Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi decided to address the U.N. General Assembly, and he made up for it on Wednesday, delivering a seemingly interminable address in which he tore up the U.N. Charter and laid out his vision for revolutionizing the Security Council.
The speech, running some 80 minutes longer than the usual 15 minute time limit, threw out the day’s carefully-crafted schedule, but there appeared to be nothing the General Assembly president, Libya’s Ali Triki, could or would do to stop it.
Triki, who served as Gaddafi’s foreign minister in the late 1970s, had earlier introduced him as “king of kings of Africa†– an epithet bestowed on him by a group of African traditional leaders when Gaddafi was elected head of the African Union (A.U.) early this year.
As A.U. head, Gaddafi had a prime speaking slot, immediately after President Obama, who left before the Libyan began his address. Also not in the chamber to hear Gaddafi’s speech were Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, who vacated the U.S. delegation seats. Lower-level diplomats took their places.
Early on in his speech, Gaddafi called the recently-departed Obama “my son,†and later described him as “a young African Kenyan.â€
“Can you guarantee after Obama how America will be governed?†he asked. “We are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as the president of the United States of America.â€
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Gaddafi said the General Assembly should vote on the proposal: if it decides to move the U.N. to the “middle part†of the globe, Libya could host it; if it chooses to go to the east, Beijing or New Delhi could do so.
“You will thank me for this proposal, for eliminating the suffering and the trouble of flying for over 20 hours to come to this place.â€
Hey Omar Gadfly, FOAD....but only after you take the UN with you.
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“We are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as the president of the United States of America.”
So are the Castro brothers, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Khamenei and Putin.
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I wish the UN would move somewhere. Preferably without the US, Israel, Canada, Australia, etc. The UN is less effective and more corrupt than the League of Nations ever where.
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I'd be fine with it moving to North Africa. Quitting it at that point sounds attractive, but realistically we need to stay engaged with it just enough to hang onto our Security Council veto.
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I wish the UN would move somewhere. Preferably without the US, Israel, Canada, Australia, etc. The UN is less effective and more corrupt than the League of Nations ever where.
I say move it to Fwanth.
There's no more fitting place for a bunch of mindless, corrupt, kleptocratic, aristocrats on earth than Paris.
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I'd be fine with it moving to North Africa. Quitting it at that point sounds attractive, but realistically we need to stay engaged with it just enough to hang onto our Security Council veto.
Rethinking the financial contribution that the U.S. makes - IIRC, it's something like 24% of the U.N. budget -- would also be in order.
Khadafi can host it, provide the tent (hell, he stays in one himself), and even the parking lot. He can fork over the millions that the U.N. wastes on corrupt and ineffective projects as well.
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‘African King of Kings’ Makes Waves in New York, Offers to Move U.N. to Libya'
Oh, please, Please, PLEASE. PLLLLEEEEEEASSSSSEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!one one eleventy!!
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‘African King of Kings’ Makes Waves in New York, Offers to Move U.N. to Libya'
Oh, please, Please, PLEASE. PLLLLEEEEEEASSSSSEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!one one eleventy!!
They're welcome to it. I'd love to see someone else foot the bill for that hole instead of us.