UN Gets A Taste Of Reality

August 20, 2003

The recent bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad may very well be remembered as a turning point in our efforts in Iraq.   The attack on the UN compound at the Canal Hotel took the lives of at least 20 people including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

 

Secretary-General Kofi Annan called the attack “unprovoked and murderous violence against men and women who went to Iraq for one purpose only: to help the Iraqi people recover their independence and sovereignty, and to rebuild their country as fast as possible, under leaders of their own choosing.”   This harsh language comes from a body heretofore devoid of the teeth necessary to enforce its own sanctions, a job reluctantly taken on by the U.S. military and its allies.

 

The UN didn't go there at all to help the Iraqi people “recover their independence and sovereignty.”   We begged them to do just that but the sniveling weenies who run that organization cowered behind the French and refused to join the brave forces of liberation.   Instead, they waited in the wings until we achieved our goal then strode into town on their moral high horse claiming they could take it from here.

 

Amazingly, after the attack on their compound the UN complained that the Americans had not adequately protected it from the attacks.   Oh, really?   Where were the blue helmets and blue tanks?   Where was the peace-keeping force the UN has so liberally dispatched around the globe?   What kind of environment did they think they were walking into?

 

We know all too well how dangerous the work is in Iraq.   We're paying with the blood of young soldiers almost daily.   Nobody ever said securing peace was going to be easy but we were willing to strap on the burden to save a nation of people from the brutality of a dictator and rid the world of his growing threat.   Meanwhile, the UN partook of French whine and scolded us for being so hasty after 13 years of repeated warnings.

 

Here's an organization that thinks the best course of action against despots is to lock arms and sing “We Are The World.”   They're famous for their peace-keepers but the peace- winners are always, inevitably, the Americans.

 

Here's an organization that boasts countries like China and Sudan and puts Libya in charge of their Human Rights Commission then has the audacity to lecture the U.S. regarding our action in Iraq.   We're not over there to hold their hand.   We're there to finish a job they didn't have the guts to undertake.

 

They're all about free food, free medical care and free housing and that's all well and good.   But how about free-DOM?   That's what we're all about.   That's what we have to offer the world instead of lip service and inaction.

 

 

Sure, there are still large hurdles to cross in Iraq but the largest one is behind us, no thanks to the UN.   Iraq is free.   It's free from the death grip of Saddam Hussein.   His brutal and sadistic sons are taking dirt naps thanks to the 101 st .   If Saddam still lives, he lives de-fanged and impotent.   He lives knowing that his empire has been annihilated and he stands no chance of ever regaining it.