Posted on 11/27/2004 6:07:52 PM PST by kupia_kummi
Kofi Annan should resign. Under his watch, the United Nations finds itself in the biggest scandal in its checkered history.
A hearing last week of the U.S. Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations revealed the U.N.'s tacit complicity with Saddam Hussein in evading sanctions the international organization imposed upon the former Iraqi leader following the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Although the United Nations was supposed to limit the oil lucre that flowed into the genocidal dictator's coffers – the better to prevent him from building up his military, from amassing a weapons arsenal – he nevertheless raked in more than $21 billion in illicit revenues over a 13-year span, more than double previous estimates.
Some $17 billion of that sum came through the U.N.'s so-called oil-for-food program, which began in 1996 and ended last year. It was supposed to allow Iraq to sell oil to provide food, medicine and other humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people.
The program was a sham. It enabled the Butcher of Baghdad to generate an illicit fortune through smuggling, skimming and kickbacks, right under the noses of Annan and the program's U.N. administrators.
"The magnitude of fraud perpetrated by Saddam Hussein in contravention of U.N. sanctions and the oil-for-food program is staggering," said Sen. Norm Coleman, the Minnesota Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee.
Of course, Annan denies having known anything whatsoever about the Iraqi despot's subversion of the oil-for-food program. U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said last week that the secretary-general feels he has been unfairly "misjudged by certain media."
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Amen.
PAST time.
Joseph Perkins spot on as usual.
Time to give the UN is marching orders and tell 'em to set up HQ in Africa.
Amen again.
It is NOT time for Kofi to resign. It's time for him and the whole outfit to disband - to get the H-E-double L out of our country, and don't let the door hit their backsides on the way out.
Why not have the UN set up their HQ in the middle of Iran, or North Korea, or China?
"Famous Anus" can always be a butler..
I am thinking Jail - Attica
He used to be the hot dog vendor at Macalester college football games, here in St.Paul.
I'm sure those commies would welcome him back.
Quick, call Mary Mapes and head to the nearest Kinkos....
Deport him, them and those.
I don't care where they go as long as it's out of here.
Like a bad divorce: Cut our losses and cut them loose.
Just the headline.
It's wrong.
It's time for Koffi to go to jail!
SEND THE UN TO PARIS...NOW !!!!!
Shouldve been gone yesterday locked up in the same cell as Saddam!
How about croak?
Crooks rareley resign. They have to be booted out of office. Take Clinton for instance.
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