Re: [microsound] rwanda

["::\)" <r3dshift@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

go back to sleep Tim.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Kugel" <guitardo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 1:22 PM
Subject: [microsound] rwanda

> At the UN
> those who rejected assisting Rwanda are on the rocord
>
> "We can't do everything - not all is militarily possible..."
>
> - Bill Clinton, William Cohen et al including all major foreign policy
> Republicans and Democrats
>
> plus there would have been some national raccism, which would have made it
> politiacally impossible, and there was no oil
>
> no vendetta for poppa either
>
> no "strategic need" or "WMD" (this last point is sublimely silly)
> I think the Rwandans get it
> "::)" wrote:
>
> > someone should explain to the rwandans what it is that makes an iraqi
child
> > more important than a rwandan child in the eyes of the UN.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Phil Thomson" <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 10:21 PM
> > Subject: [microsound] [ot] war
> >
> > > A recent speech by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi
> > > Annan:
> > >
> > > http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=295
> > >
> > > Excerpt: "Thank you very much, Mr. President,
> > >
> > > "It is exactly a week since I last had the honour to address this
> > > Council. During that week we have all been watching hour by hour, on
our
> > > television screens, the terrifying impact of modern weaponry on Iraq
and
> > > its people.
> > >
> > > "We not only mourn the dead. We must also feel anguish for the living,
> > > and especially for the children. We can only imagine the physical and
> > > emotional scars that they will bear, perhaps for the rest of their
> > > lives.
> > >
> > > "All of us must regret that our intense efforts to achieve a peaceful
> > > solution, through this Council, did not succeed.
> > >
> > > "Many people ask why the Iraqi government did not take full advantage
of
> > > the last chance they were given by the Council, by cooperating
actively,
> > > wholeheartedly - in substance as well as procedure - with the
inspectors
> > > that the Council sent to ensure that Iraq was disarmed of weapons of
> > > mass destruction.
> > >
> > > "But, at the same time, many people around the world are seriously
> > > questioning whether it was legitimate for some member states to
proceed
> > > to such a fateful action now - an action that has far-reaching
> > > consequences well beyond the immediate military dimensions - without
> > > first reaching a collective decision of this Council.
> > >
> > > "The inability of the Council to agree earlier on a collective course
of
> > > action places an even greater burden on you today...."
> > >
> > > (continued at site)
> > >
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