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| Important. It allows many countries of the world to express their views in a democratic forum |
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4 | 28.57% |
| Not Important, and I'm a conservative who voted for Bush |
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7 | 50.00% |
What's the UN?
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3 | 21.43% |
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Elite Kiki
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How important is the UN?
Discuss.
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It keeps me busy.
I maintain their radio cars. |
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As I perceive it they are pretty much a joke at this point...
What can they do? I wish the Soviets would come back into power... Life was simpler during the US/USSR cold war Have Problems?... Chances are its due to overpopulation Save The Oceans, Save the Planet, Save Your Family, Save Yourself! |
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Rollerblader
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The UN dose nothing but give small dictatorships more power.
The US should get out of you UN, but never will ![]() |
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The US would support those dictatorships anyways. They support cheap labor, plus we put alot of them in power anyways. And, they know how to take orders from washington. |
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Rollerblader
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The UN is a bunch of old ladys who bitch all day long but get nothing done.
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Rollerblader
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U.N. fails to condemn slavery in Sudan.
Where was the U.N. during the massacre in Rwanda in 1994? (hotel rwanda) The U.N. failed in Somalia. The U.N. failed in Bosnia. The U.N. failed in Israel. The U.N. failed in Columbia. |
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You have 18 posts. ![]() |
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Rollerblader
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Now i have 19.
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The UN is completely useless, when's it going to make Israel abide by a few of it's resolutions? Never.And this wet rag below never does anything useful, like the idiots before him. ![]() |
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Conflict between the U.S. and the U.N. is not new. The first major defeat for the U.S. at the U.N. was Resolution 2758 - the admission of the People's Republic of China and removal of the Republic of China against U.S. wishes in 1971 (see China and the United Nations). Since the U.S. changed its own China policy shortly after, however, this did not do lasting damage. Far more serious was the General Assembly Resolution 3379 of 1975 equating Zionism with racism, which caused great offense in the United States. Resolution 3379 was eventually negated in 1991 by Resolution 4686, but only after years of increasingly strained relations. Under the Reagan administration, the U.S. withdrew from UNESCO, and began to deliberately withhold its U.N dues as a form of pressure on the UN. By far, the U.S. was, and continues to be, the state levied most heavily by the U.N. Therefore, U.S. policymakers considered this tactic an effective tool for asserting U.S. influence in the UN. The U.S. eventually repealed its policy of withholding funds in an effort to mend the U.S.-UN relationship, but not before the U.S. had accumulated a significant debt to the U.N. Persistent use of its veto power in the Security Council with respect to resolutions condemning the state of Israel has been a constant cause of friction between the General Assembly (which has condemned Israeli actions on numerous occasions) and the United States (see Negroponte doctrine). from wiki |
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The UN Failure to intervene in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, despite the fact that the UN designated Srebrenica a "safe haven" for refugees and assigned 600 Dutch peacekeepers to protect it.
The UN did nothing to protect the Bosniak civilians in Srebrenica. One hundred lightly armed dutch peacekeepers were denied repeated requests for reinforcements and consequently sidelined to witness what was to follow. Faced with the reality that Srebrenica had fallen under the control of Bosnian Serb forces, thousands of Bosniak residents from Srebrenica fled to the nearby hamlet of Potočari seeking protection within the UN compound. By the evening of July 11, 1995, approximately 20,000 to 25,000 Bosniak refugees were gathered in Potočari. Several thousand had pressed inside the UN compound itself, while the rest were spread throughout the neighboring factories and fields. Though the vast majority were women, children, elderly or disabled, 63 witnesses estimated that there were at least 300 men inside the perimeter of the UN compound and between 600 and 900 men in the crowd outside ![]() |
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Rollerblader
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Thats a good answer .skaterdude.I need to get some googling to post a response ,but it's nearly 8pm here and supper is readyNOW......(this is true I'm not copping out!) Might be back later , but I 've got to get up at 3:30 in the morning to drive someone to the airport.........
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Its not google it Wikipedia, and have a good night.
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The UN is a joke, so are the poll options.
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"Important. It allows many countries of the world to express their views in a democratic forum"
yeah when many of the countries are not democratic or only in name. |
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True Story, Just like the United States is not democratic. |
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Rollerblader
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The USA is a Representative democracy.
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i mostly wish that we could "opt out" of social secerety. |
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What chaps my ass is the applause the Democrats gave during Bush's State of the Union when he said his privatization plan was shot down. Yeah, congratulations. They'll be blaming him when the baby-boom generation reaches 65 & the well is empty... If people can't be trusted or responsible enough to manage their own money, they should have to pay the consequences. |
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Yeah Bush has called on congress to reform S.S. and they rufuse to because its going split so many voters, and not down party lines like they like, They are afraid they wont get reelected.
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