Posted on 11/21/2004 11:33:05 PM PST by kattracks
You can hardly blame United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan if he's spending a lot of his free time these days touching up his resume. For even by U.N. standards, the oil-for-food scandal; misconduct charges against senior U.N. officials (and furious complaints by U.N. employees in recent days that Mr. Annan is covering up); and the organization's failure to stop genocide in Sudan represent a low point for a world body that had fallen into disrepute decades ago.
One week ago, a Senate committee investigating the oil-for-food scandal doubled to $21 billion the amount of money former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein managed to steal from that humanitarian program (the overwhelming majority of it on Mr. Annan's watch) to pay off friends and political cronies; one of those alleged to have benefited from Saddam's illicit largesse was Benon Sevan, the U.N. official appointed by Mr. Annan to head the program. Mr. Annan's refusal to permit U.N. employees to testify before Congress or to make internal U.N. audits available to congressional investigators smack of a cover-up. And Mr. Annan's recent foot-in-mouth episode, in which he asserted that the coalition military campaign that ousted Saddam was "illegal," further eroded what little was left of his credibility in Washington.
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Then, over the weekend, Mr. Annan narrowly managed to escape (at least for now), a no-confidence vote from the U.N. staff union for mishandling a probe of misconduct involving Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services Dileep Nair, who was accused of harassing fellow staffers and practicing favoritism in hiring and promotions. After Mr. Annan's office announced that Mr. Nair would be pardoned, U.N. employees held a closed-door meeting in which they voted a resolution of no confidence in U.N. senior management.
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Which one is Kofi?
I suggest Bush 41 to replace this guy.
***U.N. employees held a closed-door meeting in which they voted a resolution of no confidence in U.N. senior management.***
...uknow "U.N. Employees", it would be much better if you will vote/sign the campaign that aims to remove U.N. Hq. from United States, that will be good decision..
Memo to the Dims: we were right about the UN.
Say good night Kofi !
GET THE UN OUT OF THE USA
http://www.moveamericaforward.org/
So right, that I would like to follow the money path before Kofi leaves. After he leaves things will just dry up.
Goodbye coffee cup...thanks for nothing!!.....
Here's hoping someone can figure out a way to punch a hole in Kofi's parachute !!!
We participate as observers only. That way they can't say were being "unilateral" or selfish
What are they gonna do without US muscle? Field a UN army made up of France and the third-world?
What is the UN going to do about N Korea, Iran, et al?
The one that looks like a puppet.
Kofi Annan isn't the disease - he's just the poster child of the disease. The disease is the UN, having successfully followed the same path to irrelevance of its predecessor, the League of Nations.
I propose getting the UN out of the US; getting the US out of the UN; and putting Kofi in jail where he belongs. He can have the cell next to Kenneth Lay.
If Lay committed a crime, Annan committed a bigger one!!
I propose that the UN building be leveled and a nice veterans park and museum be put there instead. And please, someone do something with that stupid handgun statue that someone tried to pass off as 'art'
Wonder how much of whose money that cost Annan?
Strong words. They apply to Kofi as much as they do to those who surround him.
Quite right in your assertion. The hate America terrorist den and TOC. They should move it or lose it.
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