The Poodle Bares Its Teeth

Bush envoy's fury over 'insult' to US by British UN chief
From James Bone in New York



LONG-SIMMERING tensions between the Bush Administration and the United Nations leadership erupted into open warfare yesterday when Washington’s ambassador voiced outrage at criticism of the United States by the UN’s British second-in-command.

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“The Secretary-General stands by the Deputy Secretary-General and agrees with the thrust of his speech,” Mr Annan’s spokesman said last night. “The speech was not a mistake.”

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Mr Malloch Brown last night defended his remarks, saying the crisis facing the UN demanded that he speak out. “For the life of me, I cannot understand how that can be construed as an anti-American speech,” he said.

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And on Page 2, the best part of the article, an earlier quote from Mr. Malloch Brown:

“If you look at the past 60 years of the UN, things rarely go well when there are strains in the relationship with the US. We must learn to trust the US without being seen as a poodle of America”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2216040_2,00.html

:rofl:

today. It was time to move on, so I chose the Poodle and the Walrus.

Remember, he was a recess appointment after he couldn't get confirmed.

The walrus is doing what he was sent to do-make the UN georges b***h or close it down.

funding from the U.S. Meanwhile Kofi Annan is doing stuff like finally demanding that Myanmar release ALL political dissidents.

I cannot believe that Bolton had the chutzpah to say this, after all the condescending, patronizing things he has said about the UN!!!! Now he wants to take his ball and go home. What a typical three-year-old!!!!!

anybody hear any more?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2326762