The UN only wants money!
But then again, it sounds like a perfect job for Bill Clinton.
Posted on 12/29/2004 5:58:16 AM PST by OESY
Two years after the charges first surfaced, Kofi Annan has finally admitted that U.N. peacekeeping troops sexually abused war refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "I am really shocked by these accusations," the United Nations Secretary-General told reporters last week.
He shouldn't be. Allegations of sex crimes committed by U.N. staff and troops date back at least a decade and span operations on three continents, in places like Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cambodia. But rather than showing the kind of "zero tolerance" toward sexual crimes that Mr. Annan now promises, the U.N. has treated such instances with cavalier nonchalance.
In Congo, some 150 cases are under investigation. The charges range from rape, in which some victims were children, to sexual exploitation. In some cases, women and young girls have been coaxed into sex in exchange for essential food items. A French U.N. staffer was arrested for raping underage girls and taking digital pictures of them. He has been sent back home where he will stand trial.
U.N. officials reportedly are worried that if these pictures and other rape videos allegedly shot by U.N. troops find their way into the media, it could become the U.N.'s "Abu Ghraib." The difference, of course, is that the abuses in Iraq came quickly to light through the chain of command and were immediately prosecuted by the U.S. military. In contrast, the U.N. is investigating the cases in Congo only after much delay and even now is unwilling to "name and shame" the countries whose soldiers committed these crimes.
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When the top of the heap is corrupt, what can one expect from the troops?
UN...ADIOS M. F.'s in 2005.
But then again, it sounds like a perfect job for Bill Clinton.
It's what leadership is all about, or not all about.
If we stingy Americans would pay more taxes the UN could afford hookers for these people. We should be ashamed.
It's "Abu GrabMe"
ABU GRABME!
ABU GRABME!
ABU GRABMYOIL!
ABU KOJO GRABMYMONEY
/serious sarcasm
Freeper Arty Bn, standing by for firing orders SIR!
All btry's reporting in and standing by to fire the
ZOT
U.N.-fit,
U.N.-ethical,
U.N.-accountable,
U.N.-lawfull,
U.N.-needed,
U.N.-wanted,
anyone care to continue expanding this list of what we think of the Coffee A NO NO's criminal gang?
Yet this S.O.B. stands up there on his high horse and condems the U.S. every chance he gets.
Location: Turtle Bay, NY
TOT: NOW!
Object: Big Building full of bureaucrats more useless than a condom with the tip cut off.
Why: It needs to be done.
Level of response: Fire for Effect.
Cease Fire time: NEVER.
All batteries fire at will.
Why can the UN dirty pix be kept confidential, but the US investigations are leakier than a cheese-cloth canteen?
Because the UN is a totalitarian world government.
Roger that!
Standy for Bn 50, HE,PD FUSE 0 DELAY,CHARGE 8....
Then standby for silver bullet orders!
STAND BY.............
FIRE!!!!
I prefer that he stay and we go. Also, let them move to Bruge or Bern.
Yeah, but at least they didn't put pink panties on their heads.
U.N.-worthy
U.N.-trustworthy
U.N.-clean
U.N.-derhanded
U.N.-believable
U.N.-scrupulous
U.N.-substantial
Still waiting for Kofi and Kojo to be "frog-marched" (wasn't that the word??) out of the UN and locked up in one of Sadaam's old prisons!!
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!
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