U.N. IRRELEVANCE: In the most pointed presidential address since Ronald Reagan labeled the Soviet Union an "evil empire," President Bush this morning basically told the U.N. that it just plain sucks and that it's all but irrevelant. However, the president then offered the U.N. a chance to become relevant: by joining the United States in liberating Iraq. The full text of this amazing speech is on the
White House website, but here are a couple particularly nifty excerpts:
The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of U.N. demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?
We must choose between a world of fear and a world of progress. We cannot stand by and do nothing while dangers gather. We must stand up for our security, and for the permanent rights and the hopes of mankind. By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand. And, delegates to the United Nations, you have the power to make that stand, as well.
