Quote of the day: "He who remains silent in the defence of truth is a dumb devil. " From--you guessed it--Iraq's letter to the U.N.

The entire letter is a monument to poverty of expression. A prime and typical example:

However, representatives at the United Nations and its agencies, especially those from permanent member-states, instead of fellowship up on this and, hence, expose those responsible for the dissemination of lies and fabrications, were busy discussing the type and wording of the new resolution. They were indulged in what word or letter to add here or omit there, until they adopted a text under the pretext that is would be better to take the kicks of a raging bull in a small circle than to face its horns in an open space.

Another:

We have said to the member of the Security Council whom we have contacted, or who have contacted us, when they told us about the pretexts of the Americans and their threat to perpetrate aggression against our country, whether unilaterally or with participated from others, if the Council were not to allow them to have their way, that we preferred, if it ever became necessary to see America carry out its aggressions against us unilaterally, when we would have to confront it relying on Allah, instead of seeing the American government obtaining an international cover with which to camouflage its falsehood, partially or completely, bringing it closer to the truth, so that it may stab the truth with the dagger of evil and confronted the United States before when it looked as it does now, and this was one of the factors of its isolation in the human environment on the globe at large.

I was going to grade this illiterate tour de force and post my comments. But then I realized that if a student handed me a paper this poorly written--an ill-conceived rant, riddled with errors of grammar and syntax, clearly not proofread--I would not grade it. I would fail it.

Shall we place our bets on whether the U.N. has lower standards than a freshman composition class?