Posted on 11/08/2004 5:36:29 AM PST by OESY
...In letters to President Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, Mr. Annan wrote that, "I wish to share with you my increasing concern at the prospect of an escalation in violence, which I fear could be very disruptive for Iraq's political transition...."
How nice of Mr. Annan to express such fine impartiality between Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the Americans and Iraqis the terrorist and his gang are trying to kill. The insurgents are using Fallujah and environs as a staging area for their violence, dispatching suicide car bombers, kidnapping and beheading innocent tourists and relief workers. But Mr. Annan publicly objects only before a planned counterattack by the forces trying to defend those innocents and build a free Iraq.
The U.N. already shares some of the blame for allowing Fallujah to become a terrorist stronghold. Amid April's Coalition offensive in that city, then-U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi objected to what he called U.S. "collective punishment." The Marines withdrew and attempted the very "dialogue" with "certain Iraqi constituencies, particularly among Iraqi nationalists" that Mr. Annan's letter now recommends.
Most of these "nationalists" happen to be remnants of Saddam's regime who are trying to restore their Baathist dictatorship. They have used the respite to grow more powerful and kill more innocents. These people don't want "dialogue"; they want total power. They have to be killed if Iraq is ever going to be able to hold free elections. Yet letters like Mr. Annan's can be exploited by these killers to promote unrest elsewhere in Iraq and make stability that much harder to achieve. With Marines and free Iraqi forces about to fight another battle for Fallujah, Mr. Annan's letter can only be described as a hostile act.
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The annotated image from April provides an excellent sense of scale and scope of the city. For example, I had no idea that we have had three Marine bases that appear to be *inside* the perimeter of the city.
How come Old Kofi isn't saying anything about the French involvement on the Ivory Coast? Seems to be a escalation going on there also.
ditto
When does the kof (monkey in Hebrew) 's term of office end?
I would assume that if one is being "buggered" and one enjoys being "buggered", one does not start an argument with the "buggerer".
Or words to that effect. ;)
Kofi and Bahgdad Bob HAVE to be related.
UN out of the US!
"Desperately Seeking Significance"
A new moniker for the Democratic Party!
US out of the UN
Good Question
Amen!
Another case of Kofi nerves.
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