The Recent UN Speeches

I'm curious about the recent speeches at the UN General Assembly in New York. I'm tired of all this "Chavez claims Bush is the Devil" and Bush vs Ahmadinejad BS.

I think a good place to start would be the speeches that they actually gave:
Chavez: http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm
Bush: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060919-4.html
Ahmadinejad: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2006/iran-060920-irna02.htm

After reading these, Ahmadinejad seems like a smart guy with an evil agenda, and Chavez seems like a militant revolutionary trying to stir up trouble.

I was curious about Luis Posada Carriles, mentioned by Chavez: ttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/

Both Chavez and Ahmadinejad think that the UN should be remade so the US doesn't have as much influence.
http://www.bloggernews.net/2006/09/nugget-of-truth-in-chavezs.html
Interesting that if veto power were revoked, maybe there'd be some sanctions against Iran (and North Korea?)

Then again, there's controversy as to whether sanctions actually work. http://www.ima.org.uk/conflict/papers/Hovi.pdf#search=%22do%20sanctions%20work%3F%22

It's interesting that Ahmadinejad keeps appealing to the UN to step up its efforts, and curb US imperialism. He doesn't present any solutions, mention Hezbollah, mention the continuing Taliban resistance or how anyone can solve the civil war in Iraq, but he shifts the responsibility to the UN to sort things out. Sounds like a liberal to me.

He does mention Israel and Palestine a bit - but I'm still not sure what the whole conflict is about. Even after reading this:
http://www.ima.org.uk/conflict/papers/Hovi.pdf#search=%22do%20sanctions%20work%3F%22
Hmmm, this helps a little:
http://www.mideastweb.org/nutshell.htm
Except, this mentions that the UN was instrumental in creating Israel. Wasn't Ahmadinejad asking for more UN intervention?

I normally don't listen to this stuff, but this video is pretty clear: http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005959.htm

At this point in the evening, I think http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ is much more interesting.