Sick article from cbsnews - fire Kofi

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/24/opinion/main657709.shtml

U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan should either resign, if he is honorable, or be removed, if he is not. The mild-mannered Annan may not himself be corrupt. But he has presided over no less than the largest corruption scandal in the history of the world, Oil for Food. Never has the U.N. been more disrespectable or useless. Moreover, Annan's response to the scandal has been inadequate to the point of disgrace. That he still holds his post is testament to the culture of impunity that pervades the organization.

Annan's apparently congenital reluctance to move forcefully when necessity requires stems partly from his corporatist background: He has worked for the U.N. almost continuously since 1962. He is the original Organization Man, the first of the seven secretaries general to ascend to the top of the greasy pole from entirely within the U.N. He lacks the drive, and the desire, to tame the beast he inherited. Annan is a man willingly in thrall to his employer's unaccountable and inefficient bureaucracy, and a servant of its patronage machine.

Now the UN isn't perfect, but for this and other reasons - which that conservative writer would not want to read - I am compelled to agree. The UN is too soft.

Thoughts?

It was written by the National Review. CBS News also has articles from The New Republic and The Nation on their site, but I wouldn't credit these opinion pieces as being "from CBS News."

as with the Ukraine incident, I'm dumbfounded why the US has any say whatsoever in these issues as we who run this country have cast stones too and refuse to clean up the glass shards of our glass house.

was a badge of honor.
The supposed oil for food fraud is another RW hoax - as it seems, whatever other sins Saddam commited, he kept Iraqis fed. I even read about the efficiency of the distribution.

They have no choice.

... I think people are pushing for Clinton as Secretary General. They have to push Anan out of the way in order to make it happen.

Nice one! get one more blame the Clenis outta this one!

Because the National Review doesn't like the UN OR Clinton. So having them combined into one entity makes demonizing that much easier.



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I have spoken:silly:

Why am I not surprised?


http://progressivetrail.org/articles/041011Leopold.shtml

the "largest corruption scandal in the history of the world?" Are they really that stupid or are they just lying?

The S&L scandal was several times larger than the oil for food deal. And in just a few short months Bush has managed to allow $8.8 billion in Iraqi reconstruction funds to be spirited away. At that rate Bush will allow or encourage the theft over a comparable period of four times the amount involved in the oil for food scandal.

that there still is no proof of this "scandal", and most of the circumstantial accusations were made by none other than Iranian spy Chalabi.

of who should resign? Kofi should resign while Condi "nobody could have imagined planes flying into historical documents" Rice gets a promotion. Funk dat.

AND it's Bill Buckley's birthday! I hope he chokes on his own bile and dies.

Who better to do it than the most corrupt people ever? They're doing a great job. I saw a local news show Sunday that was sickening. They were talking about Anan's son working for Saddam-supporting entities. I didn't catch it all or I would have posted. But the fact that you posted this shows they are hammering on this issue.

Let's take bets as to how long it will take for the freeper parrots to start spewing this nonsense.

The real question is why they still need to discredit the UN. Is it because they want to invade Iran and they know they won't get support?

How is it that Bush will again break his "promise" to unite everybody and these morans will support him?

Asking such questions makes me tired because I know the answer and wish I didn't.