QUOTE]The United States is the frickin U.N We contribute more soliders, finances, and goods to the UN than the rest of the UN combined.[/QUOTE]
Where did you get educated? The US is not the UN. The US has sat on the outside of the UN for some time now, - it never even paid it's "club membership" for many years until after Sept 11 when it managed to find them and pay damned quick - Reason? It needed something called "support".
As far as the US contributing "more".. no, in fact it is the complete opposite. The US contributed the lowest percentage of any Western country.. Until recently this was 2% while others were in the 10%-13% range. Out of embarassment a year ago, this 2% was raised to 4%. Attached to that 4% were "conditions", - one was that it would not, in fact, be raised till 2004. (Note.. most likely after the time Bush is returned to Crawford to look after some cattle). The reason it was raised covered Bush's ass, enabling him to have *some* credibility left to address a conference in Mexico earlier this year to pontificate on the "world's homeless and starving".
No.. the United Stats is not, as you may think, the World's Saviour much as some may hold that opinion
