[link|http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040608/ts_nm/iraq_un_dc|A corrupt multinational organization considered as the arbiter of legitimacy]

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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt a
U.S.-British resolution that formally ends the occupation of Iraq (news
- web sites) on June 30 and authorizes U.S.-led troops to keep the peace.

In a packed council chamber, the 15-nation body endorsed a "sovereign
interim government" in Iraq, following weeks of negotiations and a last
minute addition by the United States and Britain on military policy that
France and Germany had demanded.

"The significance of this resolution ... is to take away the concept of
occupation, which I would say was the main reason for many of the
difficulties that we have been going through since liberation," Iraqi
Foreign Minister Hoghyar Zebari said in New York.

The resolution attempts to pave the way for democracy by giving a
timetable for elections -- not later than Jan. 31, 2005. It puts Iraq in
charge of its oil proceeds and calls for the United Nations (news - web
sites) to help with elections, a constitution and many other tasks.

I say:

Help? Who are they helping? What do such UNSC members as Red China
know of elections and constitutions?


The new Iraq does not need the United Nations to be legitimate.
No one needs the United Nations to be legitimate. This UN Security
Council includes the same countries that
[link|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/un.html/#03iraqcomplicity|sold the people of Iraq down the river]
so they could get kickbacks from Saddam Hussein.

The liberation of Iraq is a fait accompli, no thanks at all to the UNSC.
But realpolitik says we must invite them on the bandwagon, even if they
insist of being in the seat of honor. By rights they should be going
under the wheels.

The United Nations does not bestow legitimacy. The United Nations
parasitizes legitimacy. Whenever a UNSC resolution is unanimous, you
can be sure that it is entirely self serving. Were it not for our
good friend Tony Blair, I'd say blow off the whole lot of thieves right
now.

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