UN hits back at US in report saying parts of America are as poor as Third World. The annual Human Development Report normally concerns itself with the Third World. Bush wants to replace multilateral solutions to international problems with a world order in which the US does as it likes on a bilateral basis.

"This is the UN coming out all guns firing," said one UN insider. "It means that, even if we have a lame duck secretary general after the Volcker report (on the oil-for-food scandal), the rest of the organisation is not going to accept the US bilateralist agenda."

"Claims that the New Orleans floods have laid bare a growing racial and economic divide in the US have, until now, been rejected by the American political establishment as emotional rhetoric."

Yeah, that's what it is. Those people down there in NOLA aren't suffering. They aren't poor. It's all just one big fabricated story.

Sure.

BTW, how do you make that cute little smily that's rolling his eyes?

Gwendolyn codes for all the smileys are here at this link

Smileys

and for BBC codes here

BBC codes

cheers

Thanks, Mike!

The U.N. is correct I should know having been to many of these places.