7 U.S. Groups Ask U.N. for Vote Observers.
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7 U.S. Groups Ask U.N. for Vote Observers.
Un****ingbelievable.
Maybe they'll implement the "Insert here" for Vote plan with similar effects to the late Food for Oil plan?... oh wait...
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...rs_1&printer=1
You thought the 2000 election mishap in Florida was an embarrassment? Imagine how tainted and vulnerable our image would become if the corrupt UN held our hand...
Maybe they'll implement the "Insert here" for Vote plan with similar effects to the late Food for Oil plan?... oh wait...
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...rs_1&printer=1
UNITED NATIONS - Seven American activist groups asked the United Nations (news - web sites) on Monday to provide international observers for next month's presidential election.
Grace Ross of the Economic Human Rights Project, based in Somerville, Mass., said the non-governmental groups decided to seek action from the Economic and Social Council, known as ECOSOC, after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) turned down a request for international observers from 13 members of Congress, led by Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Tex. Annan said the U.N. needed an invitation from the U.S. government, not Congress.
Grace Ross of the Economic Human Rights Project, based in Somerville, Mass., said the non-governmental groups decided to seek action from the Economic and Social Council, known as ECOSOC, after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) turned down a request for international observers from 13 members of Congress, led by Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Tex. Annan said the U.N. needed an invitation from the U.S. government, not Congress.
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You're invited to my rooftop even though I don't think we'll have anything to worry about. 
On that note, maybe they can bring along some military advisors in order to teach our forces how to pull security through their eyelids?!
On that note, maybe they can bring along some military advisors in order to teach our forces how to pull security through their eyelids?!
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Originally Posted by Salty
Un****ingbelievable.
You thought the 2000 election mishap in Florida was an embarrassment? Imagine how tainted and vulnerable our image would become if the corrupt UN held our hand...
You thought the 2000 election mishap in Florida was an embarrassment? Imagine how tainted and vulnerable our image would become if the corrupt UN held our hand...
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Didn't we- the US, actually have a major hand in starting the UN?
So since we are founding members of a union of socialist countries, does that make us a Socialist country?
So since we are founding members of a union of socialist countries, does that make us a Socialist country?
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Originally Posted by psoper
Didn't we- the US, actually have a major hand in starting the UN?
Originally Posted by psoper
does that make us a Socialist country?
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Originally Posted by psoper
Didn't we- the US, actually have a major hand in starting the UN?
So since we are founding members of a union of socialist countries, does that make us a Socialist country?
So since we are founding members of a union of socialist countries, does that make us a Socialist country?
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Originally Posted by deyes
Thats funny, a union of socialist countries overseeing elections in the country that pioneered democracy. I hate the UN.
False. The US didn't pioneer democracy by any stretch of the imgination. First off, the US is a republic in which the general population chooses a few to rule, not a democracy. Second, Democracy was pioneered in Greece (demoshanes) long, long ago... before Christ. The Romans took the ideas of democracy but wanted to keep strong central leaders and therefore developed a Republic. We have adopted a similar system to the romans. There is also evidence that a democracy was formed in anchient India independant of Greece.
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Originally Posted by deyes
Well if you want to get technical about it 
In any case who the hell is the UN to oversee our elections?
In any case who the hell is the UN to oversee our elections?
Yeah, I'm all about dealing with other nations and staying on good terms. But having the UN, the same organization that watched the Iraqi people starve while lining their pockets with Oil for Food money, oversee our elections is a bit rediculous.-Chris
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Originally Posted by psoper
Don't foregt that our old pals at Halliburton including our president of Vice were amongst the recipients of that oil for food money!
I've heard this before but can't use it in my own arguments 'cause I don't know where to find references for it. Do you have any links? Me hates halliburton.
-Chris