Posted on 12/11/2006 10:26:19 AM PST by Saint Reagan
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his farewell address, criticized the Bush administration, warning that America must not sacrifice its Democratic ideals while waging war against terrorism.
In remarks prepared for delivery Monday at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Annan also said the Security Council should be expanded.
“Human rights and the rule of law are vital to global security and prosperity,” Annan’s text said.
When the U.S. “appears to abandon its own ideals and objectives, its friends abroad are naturally troubled and confused,” he said.
Annan, who leaves the United Nations on Dec. 31 after 10 years as secretary-general, has become an increasingly vocal critic of the war in Iraq.
He said in the text that the U.S. has a special responsibility to the world because it continues to have extraordinary power.
Annan summed up five principles that he considers essential: collective responsibility, global solidarity, rule of law, mutual accountability and multilateralism.
He chose the Truman museum for his final major speech in part because it is dedicated to a president who was instrumental in the founding of the United Nations. His text repeatedly praised the Truman administration but never mentioned Bush by name.
“As President Truman said, ’The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world,”’ Annan said.
“He believed strongly that henceforth security must be collective and indivisible. That was why, for instance, that he insisted when faced with aggression by North Korea against the South in 1950, on bringing the issue to the United Nations,” Annan said.
“Against such threats as these, no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others.”
Annan also called for a reform of the Security Council, saying its membership “still reflects the reality of 1945.” He suggested adding new members to represent parts of the world with less of a voice.
He said the permanent members, the world powers, “must accept the special responsibility that comes with their privilege.’
“The Security Council is not just another stage on which to act out national interests,” he said in another jab at Bush.
He forgot to mention the highlights of his tenure, oil for food, un troops sex crimes, darfur but besides that a good guy no? Now what did he have to say about Bush?
Door, *ss, don't let it hit you.
Strange how that only applies to one particular country...
When the U.S. “appears to abandon its own ideals and objectives, its friends abroad are naturally troubled and confused,” he said.
We've "abandoned" ou "own objectives"?
What , pray tell, ideals and or objectives, have we abandoned?
What they didn't report was his jab at the administration for invading too soon and leaving his son holding the bag on all those worthless Iraqi Oil contracts.
A very small man who will leave an even smaller legacy.
Anyone have a breakdown of combat casualties by UN member in the Korean War?
What an a*sh*le!
He's about the last person who should be lecturing the US on anything.
Screw you, Kofi. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
Yeah, but what does the UN have to do with these things?
Adios Kofi!
Someone please tell me why the US is part of this organization of 3rd world gangsters and socialist.
Poor Coco Puff.
he failed and now it's OUR fault.
face it, buddy, your gang just isn't what it used to be. you're now just a bunch of irrevelant thungs trying not to look like a total bunch of failures.
Douchbag Annan!
"A modest man with a good deal to be modest about." - Churchill
Did he stick around long enough to get scolded by any Americans for the glorious job he did in screwing up so many parts of the world in the last decade?? Especially places like Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia? Did he celebrate the new countries who went nuclear on his watch like Pakistan, India or North Korea? (Maybe that is why they won't let me have a 'press' badge)
Truman would have dropped a big one on Tehran by now.
Does he have to give up his apartment currently being remodeled, or is that one of the bribes he gets to keep?
Why in the h*ll is he giving his farewell speech in MO?
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Kofi Ahole!
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