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Annan fires U.N. security chief over Iraq failures
Associated Press ^
| 3-29-04
| NICK WADHAMS
Posted on 03/29/2004 1:30:29 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:46:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan fired one senior U.N. official and demoted another Monday for failing to properly protect U.N. staff ahead of the Aug. 19 bombing of United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people.
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Gee this Kofi guys not too bright. Doesn't he know it was Bush's fault? Oh well what's done is done. Maybe he should hire Richard (I'm the only person in the world smart enough to take on the terrorists) Clarke.
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posted on
03/29/2004 1:32:55 PM PST
by
marlon
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The buck stops with Coffee. He should resign immediately.
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posted on
03/29/2004 1:33:21 PM PST
by
zarf
(..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I assume this is the guy who didn't destroy list of the food for oil scimmers.
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posted on
03/29/2004 1:33:52 PM PST
by
Loyal Buckeye
((Kerry is a flake))
To: zarf
The buck stops with Coffee. He should resign immediately. The sooner Kofi is out, the sooner Bill Clinton will take over.
-PJ
To: Political Junkie Too
At least Toon will be spending his hours chasin exotic tuna to jerk his gerk rather than making a difference.
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posted on
03/29/2004 1:40:34 PM PST
by
zarf
(..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
They also had rehired their pre-war "security" team. Saddam agents all.
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posted on
03/29/2004 1:43:53 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: Political Junkie Too
The sooner Kofi is out, the sooner Bill Clinton will take over. Citizens of permanent members of the Security Council are not allowed to be Secretary General.
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posted on
03/29/2004 1:46:11 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Looks like Kofi found one poor sap to throw under the bus. Will it be enough to end the blood trail before it reaches him?
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posted on
03/29/2004 1:46:11 PM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
(AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
and hopefully the last act of the exiting security chief will be the firing of all U.N. personnel, emptying the building in New York, closing all the doors and securing all possible points of entry from any possible future reentry.
To: Paleo Conservative
Citizens of permanent members of the Security Council are not allowed to be Secretary General The President Kerry would have to give up our Security Council seat to benefit Secretary General Clinton.
Reason #3,847 to vote against Kerry in November
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posted on
03/29/2004 2:03:32 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Bill Clinton is the Neville Chamberlain of the War on Terror.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
All this points to the fact that the UN is populated by incompetent timeservers. A firing that isn't really a firing, a demotion that isn't really a demotion and a mea culpa from the boss is grossly insufficient as a response to the deaths of so many people.
Screw the UN. With this caliber of staffers, turning Iraq over to them would be a betrayal.
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posted on
03/29/2004 2:04:11 PM PST
by
telebob
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Emperor-of-Terrorists and Slavers, Kofi Annan
making another of his evil deals with his favorite murderer of human beings and innocents
and sealing it with a kiss.
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posted on
03/29/2004 2:05:46 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tun Myat now a disgruntled ex-UN employee, watch for forth coming tell all book blaming Koffi for not doing enough.
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posted on
03/29/2004 2:07:29 PM PST
by
boxerblues
(4 months and a couple of bandaid wounds do not make a hero)
To: telebob
...All this points to the fact that the UN is populated by incompetent timeservers... ... And yet, John F'n Kerry wants America to ask for a permission slip from the UN to defend our national security.
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posted on
03/29/2004 2:07:57 PM PST
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
To: Diogenesis
"No Tongues!"
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posted on
03/29/2004 2:10:19 PM PST
by
Keith
(IT'S ABOUT THE JUDGES)
To: boxerblues
Tun Myat now a disgruntled ex-UN employee, watch for forth coming tell all book blaming Koffi for not doing enough.Never happen - he'd turn up hog-tied in the trunk of a car somewhere, his head riddled with bullets.
The libs and the press would have no problem proclaiming it a "suicide."
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posted on
03/29/2004 2:11:55 PM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
(AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
To: Paleo Conservative
Citizens of permanent members of the Security Council are not allowed to be Secretary General.I think that there's a strong argument to be made that Clinton, a.k.a. 'the Manchurian Candidate', can be considered to be a citizen of the PRC. Oops, my bad, the PRC is also a permanent member...
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posted on
03/29/2004 2:19:42 PM PST
by
Zeppo
To: Paleo Conservative
Citizens of permanent members of the Security Council are not allowed to be Secretary General. I know that keeps coming up, but nowhere have I been able to find where that is documented. In fact, the United Nations charter places no restrictions on the eligibility of the Secretarait. See Chapter 3 Article 8 for reference.
Do you have a specific source?
-PJ
To: Oldeconomybuyer
And Kerry would like to hand over our foreign policy decisions to these guys/gals? Fine, let him run on that platform.
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posted on
03/29/2004 3:23:26 PM PST
by
Jeeper
(Virginia is for Jeeper's)
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