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Turner/Cronkite on Iraq/UN.(Insider Report)
The cover of our October 21,2002 issue warned that the pending war with Iraq, for the ostensible purpose of "Overthrowing Saddam," was actually "a ploy to empower the UN." In our last (November 17) issue, Senior Editor William F. Jasper clearly demonstrated that the war, and the administration's occupation and reconstruction policies, have indeed been crafted to further energize the UN, a conclusion recently underscored by such champions of world government as U.S. billionaire Ted Turner and retired CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite.
On November 6, Agence Prance Press (AFP) reported that Turner believes "it's very possible that the UN will come out of it [the war] much stronger than it was before," since "unilateralism and our action on that war hasn't been that successful for the United States, and Britain." "We might," he told reporters at UN headquarters in New York City, "learn a lesson and give this preemptive war and unilateralism another thought."
Turner was at the UN to present a progress report on the United Nations Foundation, which he founded in 1997 with a personal pledge of $1 billion. According to AFP, he "also lauded the foundation's inclusion of the sixth woman on the 11-member board of directors, former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, a former director of the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Turner/Cronkite on Iraq/UN.(Insider Report)