I hear the United Nations cannot be prosecuted. Why?
455890
well, i suppose you can send the SWAT team into the UN compound and make things clear.
538862
No. You are confusing any privileges of Congress with diplomatic immunity; diplomats of foreign nations are immune from prosecution.
223930
yes.  the only legal way to go to war is with a UNSC resolution.  bush didn't have one.\n\nwill anyone be charged?\nno.  international law is like any law.  just a tool of the strong.
1091003
I could not agree more.  We are not the policemen of the world.  Let the UN deal with it  (yeah right, as if they could.)
446634
The organization is biased. Specifically, it is biased towards the 5 permanent members of the Security Council (Russia, United States, United Kingdom, France, China.) The Security Council passes some of the most important measures in the UN and is usually the one that prompts a serious international effort (not the general assembly as might be believed.) It has those 5 permanent members and 10 elected members. Yet if a measure goes to vote there and ends up 14 For and 1 Against, and the one "against" happens to be one of those 5 permanent members... The measure fails. \n\n14-1 and 1 wins. This is why the UN can't usually pass any serious measures. Most major world problems involve 1 of these 5 countries and therefore they and they alone can prevent any action against their interests by simply vetoing the resolution, regardless of world opinion.
863079
The U.N. is a useless entity. It is internally corrupt and uses it's power to benefit it's members. They make hollow threats to countries and never back their own decisions.
269399
International law is actually a set of treaties.  The UN has no jurisdiction over its member nations even if they have signed the treaty. \n\n The United States is currently the only country in the world whose law requires that treaties be honored.  If you are referring to the United States, you would have to get it on agenda of the supreme court.
1151661
They could have taken their complaints to the UN, But then the UN has no authority to meddle in our laws. This is about criminal behavior, within our borders. If the ILLEGAL immigrants who are here were used as slave labor, tortured etc, then maybe the UN would have reason to become involved. As it is, the ILLEGALS are just merely breaking our laws. We are not commiting crimes against humanity here. The American people are compassionate, and understanding. That is why we allow for political asylum, and escape from persecution to peoples from all over the world. There is no justification to demonstrate to the UN, they could do nothing. Actually, I believe the UN is so corrupt and ineffective that they should be disbanded and all UN members should be expelled from the U.S., but, that is a different subject altogether. \nWe have an immediate and urgent need to secure our borders, expell those who should not be here, and regulate those wishing to come here. It is our country. We belong to God, not the world.\nThe ILLEGAL Mexicans who are here should leave, and then come back on our terms.
84902
The UN doesn't rule the world.  The UN doesn't condemn terrorist attacks against Israel.  The UN blew it's job in Africa, whatever their conditions for war doesn't mean ANYTHING.
977806
No I don't think so as the UN has already chosen Ban Ki-Moon as the sucessor to Kofi Annan.\n\nThe debate has been long gone and over. You're a couple of months too late to start thinking about it now!
544512
Why couldn't the UN? Not only did the UN not try to stop it, the UN authorized it!
1021604
Mainly because the U.N. won't act in a manner in which it said it was supposed to when first chartered.  A few nations take the initiative to be involved when there should be a general agreement on handling these situations by the majority of the nations to be involved
729106
Good question. Who would charge them with war crimes? The UN? That's a joke. The truth is no one will ever charge them. And Nothing can ever be done about it. People in this country (US) want to treat our soldiers as if they were monsters for killing terrorists. Our troops deserve many thanks. Compared to Russian war strategies we are saints!
755371
"...Many years will pass and some czars, mighty\nand those as not, will stop obeying that Court,\nthough considering it with words. They will act to their own\nwill..."\n\nThis XIX century prophesy could best describe UN. When it was established, UN did seem to have a purpose. The most sensitive purpose was to mediate in conflicts between countries. Today, it is rather a mechanism in the hands of those who are above it - the ones who finance it. UN officials are like parrots who have been tought how to evade provocative pinpointing questions.\n\nIf bending and playing blind to the mightier and violating own charters (like during their entire involvement in ex Yugoslavia, against the Serbs) is a way to survive as Organization; despite how poltronic and corruptive as it is, and still be capable to send a handful of food packages to the hungry children in Africa, although almost all of it would be taken away from the hands of the children by the local warlords there, then I guess some children won't die that day. That is one good purpose. \n\nTo the bottom line, just having a chance of being heard in UN, is extremely good today, in this era of mediatic manipulation. That is why some countries have been demembered from UN at some crytical times... Their voices were too damaging to some UN dark purposes... Evil is not always capable of looking at its own reflection on the mirror, and at times the mask of UN is needed.\n\nThere are some good people in UN. These people fight the bad people in UN. Sometimes the bad people are not "motivated," and the good people manage to do some good.
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George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other right wing zealots in the U.S. government have conspired to wage an illegal war of aggression against Iraq, kidnap and torture civilians around the world, attack civilians and medical facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. These crimes violate U.S. law, the U.S. Constitution, the Hague and Geneva conventions and other treaties and conventions.\n\nThere is no question that the U.S. is responsible for war crimes, the question is who will stand up to the Bush Adminstration. Who can question the U.S.? No politician will speak out. No court will take the case. No international organization is willing to challenge the U.S. No other nation dares to risk retribution from the U.S. government by even raising the issue.\n\nOnly the people can challenge these crimes. Only by raising a public hue and cry so loud that the issue cannot be politely ignored will this horrific crime spree be stopped.
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Domo, Olmert and his band ARE the lib element of Israeli politics.\n\nAs for the question, the UN, with a few exceptions, is nothing but a group of world criminals, dictators, and terrorist appeasers and/or practitioners.\n\nThe UN won't even acknowledge "terrorism" for these reasons.\n\nDamn, I like Bolton-- and he was right to veto that slanted, one-sided, accusatory "condemnation" article.\n\nIf Hammas would stop firing Kassam rockets from Gaza into Israel.....................
1145796
With the latest reports out of Iraq and across the world, it is evident that the United States has broken many of the U.N. charter rules.These include torture and the basic rules of war. I know that this is an unpopular choice, but sometimes the correct response is not always the most popular.