"How else can one explain the fact that Iraq is this year's head of UN Disarmament Commission [...]" i'll take a crack at this. the position is doled out alphabetically; iran withdrew, leaving iraq in that role. "Our money should not be used to fund those that hate us and want to see us destroyed." yah, our money is better spent dropping a couple hundred tons of military hardware on them ... i'm restraining myself here ... i thought i read something like "politics on the politics board ..."