Posted on 02/19/2006 10:56:41 AM PST by ncountylee
DESPITE FREQUENT DECLARATIONS OF REFORM, it seems that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has learned nothing from the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food scandal, in which Saddam Hussein's billions corrupted the U.N.'s entire Iraq embargo bureaucracy. Earlier this month, Annan accepted from the ruler of Dubai an environmental prize of $500,000--a fat sum that represents the latest in a long series of glaring conflicts of interest. Call this one Cash-for-Kofi.
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So entwined were Annan's own U.N. colleagues in the process that selected him for this award that it's tempting to relabel the entire affair as one of the U.N.'s biggest back-scratching contests. Chairing the jury panel, which voted unanimously for Annan, was the executive director of the U.N. Environment Program, Klaus Toepfer, and among the jurors was the U.N. undersecretary-general for Economic and Social Affairs, José Antonio Ocampo. Both men owe their current jobs to Annan. Serving as an "observer" of the jury panel was Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N., Munir Akram, who just finished a term as president of the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council, which works closely with Annan. On the website for the Zayed prize, the public relations contacts include a U.N. staffer, Nick Nuttall, listed complete with his U.N. email account and phone number at the Nairobi headquarters of the U.N. Environment Program.
But let us assume these folks were impartial. It's possible that with the Zayed prize already handed out in earlier years to Jimmy Carter and the BBC, the depleted global pool held no candidate more worthy than Annan.
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Cash for Kofi? Is that like "Cash For Your Trash"?
Rosett ping :)
Dear US Senate
Why is this corrupt orginzation of American haters still on US soil?
TT
" a Clinton wet dream "
fixed it for you
TT
The UN is a Master Terrorist Organization that should be removed from American soil.
You know the old saying, keep your enemies closer. I hope we have all their offices, embassy's and consulates bugged up the wazoo.
The best thing that can be said about the UN is that it provides jobs for thousands of indigent Banglahoovians who would otherwise be starving to death on the streets of their native countries.
An "environmental" prize about as valid and honest as the "environmental" movement itself.
Bunch of corrupt, islamic fanatic sympathizing, anti-Ameica robbers and criminals.
Kofi needs to be rotting in a jail somewhere.
GET THE UN OUT OF THE US! YESTERDAY!
At first glance, I thought you wrote "lots of copulation". Call it the Clinton Legacy.
Doesn't Dubai have a lot of friends in that region with problems that could put a half mil to good use?
A better title:
U.N. Secretary-general wins a half-million dollar prize receives a half-million dollar payoff.
So he'll be donating that to all the war refugees created by the evil United States, right?
I hate this man (Kofi). And I hate his smirk whenever he stands in front of an audience and insults my country.
I just don't like anything about him.
Like Mark Steyn said in "Imprimis," its impossible to exaggerate the corruption at the UN.
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