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My New Personal Hero

by John Cole|  December 16, 20038:27 pm| 3 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs

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The truth hurts:

Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, accused the United Nations Security Council today of having failed to help rescue his country from Saddam Hussein, and he chided member states for bickering over his beleaguered country’s future.

“Settling scores with the United States-led coalition should not be at the cost of helping to bring stability to the Iraqi people,” Mr. Zebari said in language unusually scolding for an occupant of the guest seat at the end of the curving Security Council table.

“Squabbling over political differences takes a back seat to the daily struggle for security, jobs, basic freedoms and all the rights the U.N. is chartered to uphold,” he said.

Taking a harsh view of the inability of quarreling members of the Security Council to endorse military action in Iraq, Mr. Zebari said, “One year ago, the Security Council was divided between those who wanted to appease Saddam Hussein and those who wanted to hold him accountable.

“The United Nations as an organization failed to help rescue the Iraqi people from a murderous tyranny that lasted over 35 years, and today we are unearthing thousands of victims in horrifying testament to that failure.”

He declared, “The U.N. must not fail the Iraqi people again.”

Bitchslapping the Axis of Weasels. Of course, everyone will declare, Mr. Zebari is just a puppet for that tyrant George Bush.

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3Comments

  1. 1.

    Pauly

    December 16, 2003 at 9:30 pm

    Fucking. Awesome.

    Who would have thought that we’d like watching an Iraqi get mad at somebody?

  2. 2.

    john zebari

    April 27, 2004 at 10:22 am

    anon and his ilk were quick to say that zebari was pointing fingers and blaming. exactly. we will be seeing more from hoyshar zebari after the hand over of power. strap yourself in, its going to be cool to see an iraqi diplomat speak freely!

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  1. Classless Warfare says:
    December 16, 2003 at 10:41 pm

    Take That!

    Via John Cole comes this story from the NY Times where the Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, let’s the United Nations have it: Settling scores with the United States-led coalition should not be at the cost of helping to bring…

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