Bill Clinton as Secretary General of the United Nations?

[Cleita]

I just ran across this looking for something else.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1511.htm

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UN - Secretary-General Clinton?

Once again the future of Bill Clinton has become a hot topic that rivals — or perhaps supplements — "Plan Hillary," which now is being massaged by New York's junior senator. Keeping his plans as secret as the flight plan of a stealth bomber, Bill has been scheming to prepare his next leap into the spotlight.

Quite often when a bad situation is allowed to continue in the hope that it will go away, it just gets worse; and what he now is planning is beyond worse — it is outrageous. With war in Iraq, weapons inspectors, meetings of the U.N. Security Council, conflicts between one-time allies and a new emergency every day or two, most of us are concentrated on the events of the day or even the hour.

Yet there is a need to lift our eyes from the clock and look at the calendar. Early in the fall, some seven months from now, the U.N. General Assembly may select a new secretary-general. Kofi Annan is under pressure to resign before the end of his second term in 2006. If he does, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the U.N. Security Council, will approve a replacement.

COULD IT BE?

Over the years, there have been secretaries-general from Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa, but never from North America. Add to that fact the interesting detail that the U.N.'s towering Secretariat Building on Turtle Bay (First Avenue and 42nd Street to New Yorkers) is more than 50 years old, crumbling and is overdue for rebuilding. That takes money — the kind of money only the long-suffering U.S. taxpayer can give, plus a cash-grabbing fund-raiser. <snip> more

If this is a duplicate, please accept my apologies.

[Sandpiper]

1. Boy wouldn't that give the wingnuts the red ass

n/t

[Cleita]

5. I got goosebumps with the possibilities when I read this. n/t

[trotsky]

2. I don't think that's allowed.

It's either the 5 veto-power nations or the members of the Security Council, that are not allowed to hold the position of Secretary General.

[Maine-i-acs]

3. US ambassador to the UN would be better!

Rightfully assuming a Democratic President ... Big dog would wow 'em in the UN especially as the US tries to regain some international respect.

[Cleita]

6. This could be a possiblity.

He's such a fine speaker and well liked in the international community.

[Dookus]

4. I doubt the UN

will have an American Secretary-General any time soon, if ever.

[Sparkle]

7. Why? I think they would make an exception with Bill Clinton.

[Dookus]

10. I disagree

the United States already has enough power in the world. I don't think the UN would give it even more.

[NewJeffCT]

8. I'd still like to see him as Sec of State

Under the new President that takes office on Jan 20, 2005!

[Cleita]

9. However, if the old President still is in the WH, think of

what he could do to prevent the PNAC from realizing their dream.

[ChiefJoseph]

11. Sure, why not? He'd be great.

[TheRedMan]

12. Can't happen

No member of the Big Five is allowed to provide a Sec-Gen to the UN.

[evil_orange_cat]

13. the real question...

are there interns at the UN and are they hot? ;)

personally, I think Clinton should stay retired... possibly taking up pet causes like Jimmy Carter. I don't want Clinton holding back the next Democratic president... or upstaging the next president.

[Cleita]

14. There's all those multi-national interpreters.

;-)