Nooooooo! Stay, Kofi, stay!
The longer Kofi taints the UN, the better.
Posted on 04/02/2005 11:13:46 PM PST by naturalman1975
UNITED Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been seriously damaged by the fall-out from the Iraq oil for food scandal.
The affair has the whiff of Watergate, which finally led to the resignation of Richard Nixon.
The independent investigation into the oil for food program criticised Mr Annan over a UN contract awarded to his son Kojo's employer.
The report took the view that Kofi Annan did not properly investigate the potential conflicts of interest when he realised his son's firm had won a major UN contract.
The report found no evidence Mr Annan was involved in the contract.
But vital evidence was missing -- crucial UN documents were conveniently shredded and there were no notes or records of conversations between Mr Annan, his son and others involved in the affair.
The secretary-general is refusing to stand down, claiming he was cleared.
But he has enemies in Washington. He may not be allowed to hang on.
Nooooooo! Stay, Kofi, stay!
The longer Kofi taints the UN, the better.
Let's hope the U.N. resigns en masse & withdraws from planet Earth. They can return to the homeworld, Unreality.
The U.N., where two bit bureaucrats from the third world are given the opportunity to take corruption to a global scale.
Well looky there, we agree on something.
The American public (much less the rest of the world) still doesn't understand that corruption is endemic to the UN. Hell, abetting corruption to raid the developing world of its resources was the principal purpose for creating the institution in the first place (you should see some of the crap that was going on in the Pan American Union back in the 1940s). It needs to be hammered in for another decade or so before enough people around the world get their fill and understand that multilateral institutions must be disbanded instead of reformed. The world is well enough networked by other means that a venue such as the UN is unnecessary in principle.
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