Useless UN

Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, addressed the United Nations Security Council yesterday and had this to say:

"Settling scores with the United States-led coalition should not be at the cost of helping to bring stability to the Iraqi people. 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. 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. The U.N. must not fail the Iraqi people again.Your help and expertise cannot be effectively delivered from Cyprus or Amman."

So how did the Security Council respond to this call to put aside the petty bickering and actually DO SOMETHING in Iraq?

Secretary General Kofi Annan: "Now is not the time to pin blame and point fingers."

French Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere: "I don't want to comment on the past."

Can anyone imagine a more useless, impotent body than the United Nations Security Council? Confronted with a direct challenge to help the Iraqi people, they scramble around covering their own behinds for failing to do so sooner.

Any suggestion that we need approval from these waffling, unaccountable diplomats to engage in international action is answered by the United Nations' failure to do anything in support of millions of brutalized people.