Pissed Iraqi foreign minister kicks UN squarely in the nads

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/17/in...st/17NATI.html (registration req.)

Iraq's interim foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, took the United Nations Security Council to task Tuesday for having failed to help free his country from Saddam Hussein, and he chided its members for bickering over his country's future instead of coming to its immediate assistance.

"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 panel.

"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," said Mr. Zebari, a blunt-spoken Kurd with a history of fighting as a mountain guerrilla against Mr. Hussein.

"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."

Those of you who bring up the fact that human rights is not part of the US equation, imagine what kind of government actively worked to save Saddam's ass just for the political opportunism of poking the US in the ribs and saving their own opportunistic oil contracts.

There's your treasured France and Germany.