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Bugging, bribes and bullying: US thuggery in advance of UN vote |
 | | The Bush administrations methods in seeking to obtain UN sanction for war with Iraq are indicative of the real character of the impending military action: the United States government is acting as an international gangster, not only in its treatment of Baghdad, but in relation to the other members of the Security Council. |
 | | For weeks the US government has been exerting pressure, in the form of bribes and threats, on the six countries whose votes on the Security Council are still considered up for grabsAngola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea and Pakistan. |
 | | White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer refused to comment, but did not deny the US was bugging the UN representatives of other countries. |
| www.wsws.org /articles/2003/mar2003/un-m06.shtml (1458 words) |
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