I think Annan has finally lost all contact with reality. Our soldiers hand out chocolate bars to a teenage girl and as soon as they leave, Hussein's shadow warriors beat and hang her. Male family members are being blackmailed into fighting, or other family members will be killed. Chemical weapons have been found. Chemical gear has been found. Missiles are being shot two hundred miles down range, in violation of WMD quidelines set up by the United Nations. The chemical weapons are also violations. There is evidence of executed United States' soldiers.
In light of all this, all Kofi can muster a comment over is a tragedy in a marketplace for which neither we or he are aware of all the facts.
This is really nothing new. Annan has dressed down Israel for years for reacting to homicide bombers, hardly every raising a whimper about the perps and their backers.
Annan is about as morally bankrupt an individual as you will ever see. Despite our efforts to avoid citizen casualties, he lumps us in with Hussein and his leadership as "belligerents", then admonishes us like little children, to make sure and take care of Iraqi citizens.
Where was this moral outrage over the last decade Mr. Annan, when Hussein was killing off his populace by starvation, torture and just common hoodlumism?
Kofi Annan, you're not only a disgrace to Ghana and the United Nations, you are a wart on the spincter of humanity.