Kofi gets a cuddle from his friends

Washington Times ^ | 1/04/05 | Wesley Pruden

[kattracks]

When the stink threatens to make even bureaucrats gag, somebody has to mop up some of the mess.

    When a gaggle of special pleaders met the other night in New York to talk about the puddle in the parlor at the United Nations, it wasn't clear whether they were interested in shaping up the U.N. or merely saving the job of Kofi Annan, the bureaucrats' favorite bureaucrat.

[snip]

What frightened the coterie to action then, and no doubt Mr. Annan yesterday, is the growing sentiment in Congress to do something about corruption at the U.N., or else.

[snip]

    There was considerable wetting of well-tailored pants at the U.N. last month with the publication of Mr. Coleman's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he asked the pointed question obvious to everyone: "If this widespread corruption had occurred in any legitimate organization around the world, its CEO would have been ousted long ago. Why is the U.N. different?"
     Why, indeed. Mr. Coleman, a moderate Republican in only his second year in the Senate, is not through yet. He is the chairman of the Senate's permanent investigating subcommittee and intends to hotly pursue the scam artists who stole much of the $60 billion — that's "billion" with a "b" — in oil profits meant for food and medicines to be waved through the U.N. sanctions.

[snip]

Mr. Annan reassured the U.N. Security Council that Mr. Volcker's conclusions "will be made available to the public in a form that will take into account the rights of staff members and, where necessary, respect any undertakings as to confidentiality that may have been granted by the inquiry."
    Translation to plainspeak: "The fix is in. If you don't like the stink, get a bigger clothespin."

[river rat]

At the VERY LEAST, Kofi must be "terminated with extreme prejudice".
No kissy face, high pension retirement....

Indictment for criminal behavior may also be in order for Kofi and his son....

Semper Fi

[LibertarianInExile]

Yeah, well, as long as you're dreaming, can you dream me one o' Mom's peanut butter pies, with Breyer's Vanilla on the side?

[backhoe]

My 2¢'s about the UN?

Neal Boortz has the right idea- kick them off US soil, plop them down in Haiti, and tell them, "when you get this straightened out, give us a call..."

Moreover:

--Sex abuse charges rock UN in Congo-
-- Interesting this is being posted today. Talk show host Dennis Prager had the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Doree Gold, on his show today. Mr. Gold has just written a book about the UN called the Tower of Babble(i think this was the title). Some of the things he was saying about the UN were unbelievable.

--TV campaign urging: Kick U.N. out of U.S.-
"I say we just give the entire country of Haiti to the UN."--or move them to Zimbabwe or another country in Africa. Let them see what the really do for the world.

--UN knew of Saddam's oil-for-food thefts: BBC-
The sooner we resign from this corrupt organization and kick them off our soil, the better.

Click this picture & goto "last" for the latest UN scandals:

American Policy Center on-line Declaration of Independence from the U.N.

[Bon mots]

Look at how Kofi handled the latest crisis.

Disaster relief from the tsunami is KOFI ANNAN's job, NOT President Bush's.

Yet, while Kofi was too busy skiing in Jackson Hole to bother springing into action, President Bush already had aircraft landing with personnel and supplies for those hardest hit by the tragedy.

It took Kofi Annan THREE DAYS to show up in front of the cameras. Then, did he mobilize anything? NO.

He called a meeting. In a week, when his lazy cohorts get back from their vacations. He claimed to have 'been working'. Right. He flipped through his rolodex and called a couple of worthless lackeys who did nothing. Then continued with his excellent, luxurious ski vacation.

This is a gross dereliction of duty and phenomenal incompetence - on top of his record of egregious corruption and outright theft and nepotism.

This Kofi should have been canned long ago.

[teldon30]

Why would we want anyone competent at the UN??? Let them keep digging a hole.

[Mo1]

it wasn't clear whether they were interested in shaping up the U.N. or merely saving the job of Kofi Annan, the bureaucrats' favorite bureaucrat.

My vote goes to saving Koffee's job ... he's been very profitable to the bureaucrats' ...

At the expense of others

[TaxRelief]

We can clearly conclude, from this passage in the article, that Ted Turner for some reason thinks he controls the UN and hence the world. (Chuckle)

Richard Holbrooke, who was Bill Clinton's ambassador to the U.N., called the save-Kofi meeting to order in his Manhattan apartment in early December, and the New York Times yesterday identified some of the other participants as John Ruggie, a former assistant secretary-general for strategic planning at the U.N., parked now as a professor at Harvard; Leslie Gelb, a former president of the Council on Foreign Relations; Tim Wirth, the former senator from Colorado and president of the United Nations Foundation, the most visible result of Ted Turner's celebrated gift of $1 billion to the U.N.; and Kathy Bushkin, an operative in unsuccessful Democratic presidential campaigns and now the executive director of Ted Turner's foundation.

More to the point, which of Ted's rivals leaked the info about this "secret meeting" to the press?