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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian envoys exchanged sharp words on Thursday over Iraq and Kosovo at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Georgia, at which Russia found little support for its actions in the Caucasus.
...U.S. Deputy Ambassador Alejandro Wolff told the meeting it was a violation of the U.N. charter for member states to use force against others, or threaten to use it, and suggested that Moscow's claims to be protecting Russian citizens in Georgia's South Ossetia region were a sham.
...Russia's U.N. envoy, Vitaly Churkin, suggested Wolff's statement was hypocritical and referred to the U.S.-led March 2003 invasion of Iraq, which Moscow strongly opposed.
"I would like to ask the distinguished representative of the United States -- weapons of mass destruction. Have you found them yet in Iraq or are you still looking for them?"
...Wolff accused Churkin of making false comparisons. "I'm not a psychologist and I don't know what brought on the free association we heard from Ambassador Churkin," he said.

"There were divisions on the Iraq war," he said. "Those are well known. We thought we had overcome them. Apparently there are still some lingering frustrations. But there is no territorial ambition or desire to dismember Iraq."

Unbelievable...after invading Iraq, Afghanistan and threatening Iran...American politicians know NO shame. Bastards.

by vbo on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 02:51:59 AM EST
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didn't you know ? America is the one indispensible nation. American Exceptionalism isn't just an aspiration, it's a cultural given. Even on supposedly progressive dKos, you can get into an almighty row if you don't accept america's right to do what it likes, when it likes, to whom it likes.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 06:17:37 AM EST
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Even on supposedly progressive dKos, you can get into an almighty row if you don't accept america's right to do what it likes, when it likes, to whom it likes.

Which is why Dkoz gives me indigestion.


As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 12:47:20 PM EST
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