[Overpaid Slacker]

I've never before encountered someone so eager to declare to the world "Hi! I'm staggeringly ignorant of what I'm about to decry and I want everyone to know it!" Kudos for pushing that envelope.

Put down the hash pipe and do some research; learn some history, some context. The "part" about rape and prostitution has been in the news (even the MSM) for the past two months... prostitution rings run by the UN and rape of young women by UN personnel in Congo as well as other places within UN "control". Rosette refers to these things in general, as context for those who actually know anything about what she's discussing. Reading Comp. is not your strong suit, evidently.

The genocides (plural) in (1) Bosnia that the UN couldn't and wouldn't handle (the same one the Europeans called in the US to handle), (2) Rwanda that the UN did nothing to stop, (3) Darfur, Sudan that the UN has done nothing to stop -- DESPITE the US attempting to have the UN place forces in that region, which efforts have been stymied by Russia and China who don't want their economic interests threatened. Where have you been? Too busy with Anti-American screeds to notice what's going on in the rest of the world? And we're insular... yeah.

On the just-short-of genocide ledger, how about the UN's stunning successes in ending theocratic murder in Iraq or Afghanistan? Oh, they've had none; it was the US that put an end to that. OK, how about UN successes in ending sectarian murder and strife in Syria-occupied Lebanon? Oh, they've had none. North Korea? Nope. Even slowing down Mugabe's slaughter of whites and theft of property? Not even that. Hmmmm... What planet have you been on for the past few decades that these events haven't registered? Or do they fail to register b/c there's not a "blame America" angle to be played... like Somalia. Yeah; "nice try."

As for the serial stupid rhetorical questions -- the Iraqis have the oil now -- unlike under Hussein when HE had it and used it to grease every corrupt UNocrat that had their hand out (including Annan's son and number two guy)-- to the tune of more than $100 billion by even Volcker's estimate (you DO know who HE is and what HE's doing, right?; your having evidenced such staggering ignorance of the other issues, I feel I must ask.)

The democratically elected Iraqi government will have to determine what happens with their oil... too bad the whole "we're just in it to seize oil" crap didn't pan out; but the morons repeating that mantra aren't exactly the ex post self-examining demographic, are they?

Sanctions, speaking of context which you completely lack, were UN (that's "N", not "S") sanctions against Iraq brainiac, ... and had Hussein not siphoned off more than $100 billion (that's $100,000,000,000) there would have been plenty of money to feed the people ... oh, but regardless of money HE WAS STARVING them for his own political purposes (ever hear of the Marsh Arabs? he asks, expecting nothing). Even before there were UN (again "N", not "S" for the reading impaired)sanctions Hussein was starving, gassing, raping and starving (oh, did I mention that?) his own people.

Hussein stole his own peoples' money through oil-for-fraud, with the complicity of the French, the Russians and the UN. So yes, this is the same UN (meaning, effectively, France on the Security Council) that the US "ignored" b/c the UN wasn't interested in ending tyranny, suffering, mass murder or corruption on an unprecedented scale -- why? B/c it was complicit in all of them.

Oh, and by "ignored" you of course mean "secured 17 Security Council Resolutions" including one authorizing force to implement the others, right?

You're really flagrantly unqualified to speak on any of these topics, having willfully blinded yourself to the facts, or being simply incapable of knowing them.

CHEERS!

JP