Posted on 01/01/2005 9:38:04 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005 12:19 p.m. EST Irked Kofi Grilled on Vacation
The press is still complaining that President Bush was missing-in-action for the first two days after South Asia's devastating tsunami disaster, but only one reporter has challenged U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on why he was out of commission for even longer.
When he finally returned from his skiing holiday, Annan was questioned by Fox Newsman Jonathan Hunt about why he continued his vacation well into the week as the staggering death toll mounted.
"I think a lot of people are asking exactly why you waited three days on vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, before you decided to fly back to New York in the face of this extraordinary crisis," Hunt asked during a Thursday press conference in New York. "Could you give us a full explanation of your thinking on that?" Hunt continued. "Secondly, what kind of signal does that 72-hour delay send to the nations to which you are now appealing for greater help?"
Obviously irked by the inquiry, Annan replied:
"First of all, there was action. It wasn't inaction. We live in a world where you can operate from wherever you are . . . You don't have to be physically here to be dealing with the leaders and the governments I have been dealing with. You don't have to be physically here to be discussing with some of the agencies that we have done."
The angry Secretary General then barked, "I don't have to be sitting in my office to take action. I think the same goes for you in your profession."
Mr. Secretary General, could you tell us, are you better able to coordinate international emergency relief on groomed trails or powder runs?
He didn't have to get snippy.
I've never had Kofi grilled...What's it taste like?
Tastes like chicken sh*t.
I mean be wrong, but I recall that some very liberal celebrity or liberal notable has a ranch in Jackson Hole area. Just can't remember who. Jackson Hole is in Montana, right? Ted Turner's mega thousand acre spread?
Anyway, Annan is TOO TOO to be questioned in such direct tactless manner by a mere American reporter.
Annan is going to whitewash the UN's dirty secrets and rotten collusions, and the UN can easily do it because the UN does not have to disclose even one memo, documents, not any accounting (!!!), none of its cabals, etc., etc. This is what to be expected from one-world government advocates - no accountancy and no disclosure = graft and deceit.
Jackson Hole is in Wyoming.
In his homeland, he and his criminal son would be lucky to make a few hundred dollars a month which, no doubt, would be gleaned from criminal extortion.
I thought so all the time. (!)
Thanks for the geography correction.
Just caught this report on www.foxnews.com
Oil-for-Food Used for Money Laundering?
Saturday, December 18, 2004
•French Bank Targeted in Oil-for-Food Scam•House Panel Probes Oil-for-Food Scandal
•Bush: Taxpayers Deserve [Purpleland says "WE DEMAND"!]U.N. Accounting
•U.N. Rejects Call for Annan's Resignation•State Dept. Endorses Senate Probe of U.N. Oil-for-Food Program•Panel: 248 Companies Received Iraq's Oil•Oil-for-Food Scandal Key to CIA Report
WASHINGTON — The already controversial U.N. Oil-for-Food (search) program may also have been a vast international money-laundering scheme involving potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, documents reviewed by FOX News suggest.
Bank records obtained by a congressional panel investigating the Oil-for-Food program raise questions about the role of French bank BNP Paribas as well as the actions of United Nations officials given the task of administering the program.
Those documents reveal that during the summer of 2003, federal regulators investigated 80 BNP wire transfers and found indications of money laundering in three of them involving $9 million dollars...
He was busy while on vacation, do you know how much work it involes to make arrangements to steal a lot of the money donated to the needy.
Oh Lordie how I love Fox News........the only network with true b*lls. Forget "fair and balanced"........they really have a set. Love it.
btt
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