In farewell, Annan scolds U.S. administration

Associated Press ^ | 11 December 2006 | Associated Press

[Saint Reagan]

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his farewell address, criticized the Bush administration, warning that America must not sacrifice its Democratic ideals while waging war against terrorism.

In remarks prepared for delivery Monday at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Annan also said the Security Council should be expanded.

“Human rights and the rule of law are vital to global security and prosperity,” Annan’s text said.

When the U.S. “appears to abandon its own ideals and objectives, its friends abroad are naturally troubled and confused,” he said.

Annan, who leaves the United Nations on Dec. 31 after 10 years as secretary-general, has become an increasingly vocal critic of the war in Iraq.

He said in the text that the U.S. has a special responsibility to the world because it continues to have extraordinary power.

Annan summed up five principles that he considers essential: collective responsibility, global solidarity, rule of law, mutual accountability and multilateralism.

He chose the Truman museum for his final major speech in part because it is dedicated to a president who was instrumental in the founding of the United Nations. His text repeatedly praised the Truman administration but never mentioned Bush by name.

“As President Truman said, ’The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world,”’ Annan said.

“He believed strongly that henceforth security must be collective and indivisible. That was why, for instance, that he insisted when faced with aggression by North Korea against the South in 1950, on bringing the issue to the United Nations,” Annan said.

“Against such threats as these, no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others.”

Annan also called for a reform of the Security Council, saying its membership “still reflects the reality of 1945.” He suggested adding new members to represent parts of the world with less of a voice.

He said the permanent members, the world powers, “must accept the special responsibility that comes with their privilege.’

“The Security Council is not just another stage on which to act out national interests,” he said in another jab at Bush.

[NeoCaveman]

Kuck Fofi.

[Rennes Templar]

“As President Truman said, ’The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world,”’ Annan said.

Never has a quote been more misused. What a bunch of crapola.

[pgkdan]

This bast*rd is irrelevant. He's a corrupt, stupid fool. Go away Kofi...your time is up and nobody wants to hear what you think.

[Saint Reagan]

previous post:
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It's not the same post. That's future tense. This is past.

[MplsSteve]

This morning, I heard Sen Rick Santorum on Bill Bennett's show.

Santorum said that so much of today's problems can be traced to the actions (or inactions) of the State Department.

I believe it too.

[SargeK]

"That was why, for instance, that he insisted when faced with aggression by North Korea against the South in 1950, on bringing the issue to the United Nations,” Annan said."

Great reference - the UN war that ended regulation as a tie, and is now in its 53rd year of overtime.

Schmuck.

[Redbob]

Memo to Kofi:
Screw you and the water buffalo you rode in on!

[GrandEagle]

In farewell, Annan scolds U.S. administration
And in other news, scientists say that it's going to be dry if it doesn't rain...

(filed under WHO CARES).

[Wormwood]

He said in the text that the U.S. has a special responsibility to the world because it continues to have extraordinary power.

He totally got that from Spider-Man.

[CremeSaver]

If I wasn't a lady, wow, the names I would call him.

[bill1952]

I suppose so few people in this world are educated in even the minimum of historical fact.

“He believed strongly that henceforth security must be collective and indivisible. That was why, for instance, that he insisted when faced with aggression by North Korea against the South in 1950, on bringing the issue to the United Nations,” Annan said.

Well dipsh*t, the fact is that the UN was involved because mother Russia was boycotting the UN.

Certainly, any motion bough before the Security council at that time - (without the Soviets, remember them?) would be passed, especially during the cold war era.

Or, is it perhaps, that Annan does not even know this?

[the invisib1e hand]

He forgot to mention the highlights of his tenure, oil for food, un troops sex crimes, darfur but besides that a good guy no? Now what did he have to say about Bush?

Exactly.

He's just sending a message to the rest of shakedown crowd. What a pussy. What a spineless pussy.

[KC_Conspirator]

How dare he! Annan has represented nothing but corruption and neglect. In he brief time span Bush has freed millions of people while Annan did nothing. Shameful!

[TheKidster]

Unfortunately you're wrong, Annan leaves behind a legacy of rape, genocide, global instability, global corruption, and a wedge of animosity between the US and the UN.
He leaves a huge legacy, it's just all devastatingly bad and evil.

[mkjessup]

Santorum said that so much of today's problems can be traced to the actions (or inactions) of the State Department.

He is absolutely right. And while I don't give a good damn if I p*ss off the Condi-lovers, she has failed to take control of the State Dept bureaucracy, Colin Powell embraced that bureaucracy, and the only man who could whip those seditionists into line would be the man who is leaving the Department of Defense next month.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the NEXT great Secretary of State: Donald Rumsfeld!

(sigh)...if only. :(

[popdonnelly]

How is it that, of all the nations in the World, only the U.S. is suitable for scolding?

[pandoraou812]

Someone should scold him for being a crook and having a crook for a son. He needs to escorted off US soil asap. I am sick of the UN too. I don't see what good they do for anyone.

[TheKidster]

HA!!

[MplsSteve]

I think Rick Santorum would be an excellent choice as Sec of Defense, Sec of State or even as UN Ambassador.

But I don't see Bush putting his name forth to be UN Ambassador.

[Enchante]

Dear Kofi,

We do not need to be hectored by a corrupt scumbag jackal who presided over the continued demise of the United Nations and the acquiescence in (and often encouragement of) every manner of human depravity all over the globe.

Speaking of the Security Council, it is France, Russia, and China that pursue "national interests" overwhelmingly in the UNSC, as they block all meaningful reforms and all international actions that could impinge upon their own corruption and depravity.

If you were actually interested in morality, reform, and humanitarian accomplishments, Kofi, you would be hectoring those nations and the many smaller version of them, and not the greatest nation on earth that is worth more in one American child's toenail than you will ever be worth in your entire, corrupt, dishonest, miserable existence.

Thank you,

America