[John Ho]

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Basically, the UN likes peace and the US LOVES war. This is unacceptable to US military planners, so our propaganda machine has to discredit the UN.

America has had to veto hundreds of security council resolutions li1ke "stop killing so many central americans, Reagan." or "leave the palistinians alone."

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The UN is completely and has always been ineffective at peacekeeping. UN peacekeepers left the Israeli border as ordered by Nasser so Egypt could better prepare to invade prior to the Six Day War. The UN did nothing to prevent France from testing nuclear arms. The UN has done nothing to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The UN was unable to prevent or sanction what it considers to be an illegal war in Iraq. I can think of nothing the UN is actually effective at doing, other than taking bribes, wasting money and passing non-binding resolutions against Israel.

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UN sanctions forced Saddam Hussein to give up his WMDs even if he wanted his country and others to think he still had them.

Then we invaded Iraq against the wishes of the UN. How's that working out? Wouldn't it be be nice if the international goodwill we spent to invade Iraq could be used to quash Iran's nuclear ambitions?