Use of the Veto on UN Resolutions by USA
//www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa03.html / Kryss Tal
04-Nov-2008 (one comment)
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Richard Perle, USA Pentagon advisor:

"I do not believe that the United States should be bound by the same rules as the smallest African nation. Life isn't like that."

Madeleine Albright, former USA Secretary of State to the United Nations:

"[The USA will] behave, with others, multilaterally when we can and unilaterally as we must."

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, USA ambassador to the United Nations writing in his book, A Dangerous Place:

"The [USA] Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success."

George Bush, USA president during the bombing of Iraq:

"What we say goes."

Edward S Herman, USA writer on the Middle East:

"Thus, instead of having to leave the occupied territories Israel continues to push out the locals by force, uproot their trees, steal their water, beggar them by 'closures' and endless restrictions, and it suffers no penalties because it has USA approval, protection, and active assistance. The partners also deny Palestinians any right to... >>>

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Farhad Kashani

yeah, like the time they

by Farhad Kashani on

yeah, like the time they couldn't get a vote to go into Iraq !! Yeah, those guys really manipulate the U.N!!!!!!