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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:37 PM
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I say the UN will save us.
It is our last best hope.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:38 PM
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1. Does Canada need saving?
Or do you mean North America?
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Wabbajack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:38 PM
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2. From the Neocons?
How?
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:39 PM
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3. UN is a large committee
made up of countries the US has annoyed/harmed, one way or another.

So don't hold your breath.

The rest of us don't need saving.
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Nikepallas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:40 PM
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4. I keep telling myself that daily but I am slowly losing hope and preparing
myself for the worse by reading 1984, The Handmaids Tale, etc.
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yeababy Donating Member (36 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:41 PM
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5. The UN cant save us. They get
most of their money from us. If we crash and burn. What could they do. They wouldn't even step in to help in Rawanda and you think they would help us?
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:41 PM
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6. If technology fuels a tendency towards one world, to overcome tribalism,
then the question is: Will this tendency be public (the U.N.) or private (the multinational corporations)? I think we can see the trend at this time.
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President Jesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:45 PM
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7. what a weird (and unfounded) statement
How about working to win in 2006 and 2008 instead of putting your hopes into a world body that frankly has no interest in fixing your problems?

And stop your damned whining. Humanity has faced and ovecome a helluva lot worse than George W. Bush.
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Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:48 PM
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8. Thank you
A bit harsh, but right on the money.

Peace.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:50 PM
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9. I am not an american.
I agree,those in power are not onmiipotent,but they are scarry.
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bonito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 08:31 PM
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13. ya its up to we the people.collectively. leader anyone?
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:55 PM
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10. Now, would that be China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan or ...
Edited on Fri Mar-11-05 07:56 PM by hack89
any one of numerous other despotic regimes that we should entrust with our freedoms and well being? We have to solve our own problems with our own courage and resolve! This is defeatism at its worst - if we can't win back our own country onour own we don't deserve it.
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K-W Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-05 07:56 PM
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11. The UN is toothless.
Edited on Fri Mar-11-05 07:58 PM by K-W
As long as we have a veto, and we always have a veto.

I find organizations forming to unite regions as a more likely counter force.

If places like Africa and South America can unify to control thier own destinies, that would stop the US.
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