BYE-BYE, KOFI

New York Post ^ | March 30 2005

[knighthawk]

March 30, 2005 -- Kofi Annan was quick to declare that the latest interim report from U.N. Oil-for-Food detective Paul Volcker "has cleared me of any wrongdoing."

In fact, it does no such thing.

Rather, it only reaffirms doubts about the independence of the report. And the need for the secretary-general to quit.

A careful reading of the 144-page document raises questions about why Volcker was so eager to give Annan the benefit of what clearly is considerable doubt surrounding the role of Swiss-based Cotecna and of Annan's son, Kojo, in the $60 billion scandal.

[knighthawk]

No more UN for US-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[b4its2late]

TO KOFI -

[Walkingfeather]

What the press has not done is explain how Kojo just happen to get access.... let me guess he walked into a mcdonalds and applied for a job and worked his way up to a oil trading company with ties to the UN oil for food program?

[VoodooEconomics]

What the report has emphasized is that there is general lack of accountability at the UN. It reaffirms view that most participants at UN come from autocratic governments and do not suffer or gain from actions they take at the UN. Perhaps we could propose a confidence vote for Kofi - and get all the guilty parties in the scandal to vote in confidence - the body is disfunctional and needs reform.

[facedown]

Don't get your hopes up.

Yet Annan yesterday pronounced himself cleared, to his "great relief." Asked point-blank whether he would resign, he declared: "Hell, no."

Delusional doesn't begin to describe this guy.

[jd777]

Former fed reserve chairman whitewashes cotecna and kofi!

[Tulsa Ramjet]

You didn't know? University Marketing schools have now institutionalized this format as the "Baghdad Bob" response to the media.

[citizen]

An in-house report clears boss....big surprise.

[saveliberty]

The longer Kofi stays, the better for the US to marginalize the UN. There is no reason to believe that there is any impetus for the UN ever to be honest and law abiding.

There are too many rewards for corruption and there is no accounting to any other organization or to itself.

Why should a brutal dictatorship be given the same voting rights as a peaceful democracy?

How is any one who works for the UN held accountable, except by its member countries?

For that matter, how is the UN itself accountable?

If we listen to Mr. Annan, the answer is that no one is accountable and please send in more cash. So let him stay and bring the organization to an all time low, and let's stop paying the checks.

It would be a good way to get someone's attention.

[BMC1]

This morning I was watching C-SPAN where the discussion was on the Oil-For-Food report.

What I found so interesting was that many of the callers equated the UN problem with Neal Bush and the Savings and Loan scandal. Some of the callers think that President Bush should resign because his brother Neal was involved in the S & L scandal. I guess because people are going after Kofi because of his son.

Somehow the loony left has turned this into Bush's fault and give a pass, as usual to Clinton/Gore.

I also find it interesting the loony left still thinks Kofi and the UN should remain the way it is. Even knowing the French, the Germans etal were making money from Saddam on the Oil-For-Food program. They were working to lift the sanctions off Iraq knowing full well that as soon as those sanctions were lifted Saddam would be back to making his WMD.

There is ABSOLUTLY NO LOGICAL THINKING ON THE LEFT. THEY HATE PRESIDENT BUSH SO MUCH, THEY ARE WILLING TO DESTROY THIS COUNTRY.

THE LEFT TRULY IS THE CULTURE OF HATE AND THE CULTURE OF DEATH.
Question for all those idiots who espouse that notion. Oil-for-food didn't come into being until 1996 and the problems that arose from the program surfaced AFTER we took out Saddam, how does this relate to President Bush?

Unless I missed something here, CLINTON/GORE WERE THE WHITE HOUSE OCCUPANTS FROM 1996 THROUGH JANYARY 2000.

[mewzilla]

Volker's name is now mud.

[stylin19a]

So, basically Voler stole OIC's defense for not prosecuting the Clintons.

[Malesherbes]

CSPAN's morning call-ins are when the lunatics run the asylum.

[DoctorMichael]

So..............will Kojo be prosecuted?

Who is the equivalent of the District Attorney for an organization like the UN?

Who will bring charges?

Where will the trial be?

If Kojo is convicted, does the UN have a jail?

[mewzilla]

If Kojo is convicted, does the UN have a jail?

No, but the Iraqis do.

And so do we.

[VOYAGER]

March 30, 2005 -- Kofi Annan was quick to declare that the latest interim report from U.N. Oil-for-Food detective Paul Volcker "has cleared me of any wrongdoing."

In fact, it does no such thing.

Rather, it only reaffirms doubts about the independence of the report

. And the need for the secretary-general to quit.

Somebody grab the handle and flush old Kofi then "hell yes" call a plumber since too much old "kofi" has already plugged the septic system(U.N.)!

[gakrak]

"Kofi Annan was quick to declare that the latest interim report from U.N. Oil-for-Food detective Paul Volcker "has cleared me of any wrongdoing."

This is what the MSM is also puking out this AM. Amen.

[DoctorMichael]

No, but the Iraqis do.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.............

To continue down this line of questioning [*LOL*]........

Should he be immediately arrested and turned over to the Iraqis for trial, right after they get done with Saddam?

Who has the legal authority to arrest him?

If in fact Kojo is responsible for the failure of the 'Oil for Food Program', and therefore of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's, can he be tried on 'Crimes Against Humanity'?

Alternately, can this be tried in an international court like the Hague?

If convicted, should he be hung?

[mewzilla]

Hmmmm....our money, Iraqi blood.

The Iraqis should have first crack at Annan and any of his cohorts. We can have what's left.

And if no-one can touch the diplos, well, diplos weren't the only participants, were they?

And pols, businessmen, and bureaucrats aren't entitled to a diplomatic Get-Outta-Jail-Free card...