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Bill Clinton: Next U.N. chief? Report: Former president eyed to replace Kofi Annan
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, February 19, 2003

Posted on 02/19/2003 2:30:50 AM PST by JohnHuang2

Has former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail again?

That's the word according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist who reports a "major international move" is afoot to help install the ex-CEO of the most powerful nation as the CEO of the most powerful world body – the United Nations.

Sunday's "Dateline D.C." column, which the paper says is written by a Washington-based British journalist and political observer, named no names but cited reports that Clinton had already lined up support for his candidacy for the secretary-general position from Germany, France, England, Ireland, New Zealand, a handful of African states, Morocco and Egypt. The Tribune-Review also reports Russia has made it known it would not object and added that China is also a big fan of the former president.

According to the Tribune-Review columnist, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is "under pressure to resign before the end of his second term in 2006." Should he do so, the General Assembly would select his replacement, on the recommendation of the U.N. Security Council. This may come as early as this Fall.

"This is the first I've heard about it and it's certainly not true," Annan's deputy spokesperson Hua Jiang told WorldNetDaily. "As far as we know, he has the full trust of all the members."

Jiang said Annan, who took over as U.N. chief in 1997, intends to fill out his entire term through 2006.

A PBS documentary, which aired earlier this month, offered highlights of Annan's U.N. career. A low point came in 1994 with the genocide in Rwanda. Annan calls it "the greatest catastrophe the U.N. ever faced." High points include the independence of East Timor and accepting Norway's Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.

Odds favor an American secretary general next time around because there has never been one from North America.

Clinton's fund-raising prowess, according to the Tribune-Review, is also viewed as just what the doctor ordered for the 50-year-old U.N. headquarters building on 42nd Street in New York, that is in need of a serious overhaul.

A rested and refreshed Clinton recently appeared on CNN's "Larry King Live" program, a customary pit stop for modern-day political campaigns. He made repeated references to the U.N. throughout the interview.

Responding to King's query about Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation on Iraq to the Security Council, Clinton sounded more like a U.N. diplomat than a former U.S. president.

"The most important thing [Powell] said from the point of view from the United Nations is that we had intelligence and photographs which seemed to prove that Iraq was almost taking these chemical stocks, at least, out of the backdoor while the inspectors were going through the front door, that they were moving things. And if that's true, it means Mr. Blix and his inspectors might never get to do the job that they were appointed to do. So I think that we need to listen to Blix, listen to Secretary Powell and I still hope the United Nations can act together on this and I think there's still a chance we can," he said.

"And, you know, there's still a chance that Saddam Hussein will come to his senses and disarm," he added.

Clinton stressed the need for abiding by international law and making sure action taken against Saddam Hussein is coordinated through the global body.

"We're trying to get rid of the chemical and biological storehouse in the hands of a tyrant ... The second thing we're trying to do is to build a global alliance for peace and freedom and security. So if we can do it with broad support within the U.N., it would be much better," Clinton said. "If we can get, based on this evidence, and letting the inspectors do a little more work if we can get an agreement with the French and the Germans and the others who are skeptical and who think that we've been too eager to do this all along, that would be better and it might give us a chance to resolve this peacefully. I think the greatest victory of all would be if Saddam Hussein saw the whole world arrayed against him and thought, you know, the jig was up."

Throughout the duration of the interview, the 42nd American president took credit for keeping a lid on the nuclear showdown with North Korea, now threatening to bubble over and for giving the approval for the first Israeli astronaut to go into space aboard the space shuttle Columbia.

"On the day that he went up, former Prime Minister Barak called and thanked me and reminded me that he and I had done this deal to allow this remarkable human being to go into space," Clinton recalled.

In addition to increasing his visibility in the media, Clinton is taking a cue from his Democratic predecessor former President Jimmy Carter and conducting international diplomacy. He is slated to participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos next week. The forum is part of the U.N.'s effort to mediate a solution to the North Korean nuclear issue.

He also has been promoting his William J. Clinton Foundation, which has collaborated with the Harvard AIDS Institute, Columbia University Medical School and other organizations, to help countries battling AIDS develop better systems to deliver care. Clinton also co-chairs the International AIDS Trust with Nelson Mandela.

A call and e-mail seeking comment from Clinton's press office in New York have not been returned. A spokesperson told WorldNetDaily that the staff needs two weeks' notice to respond to press inquiries.




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To: JohnHuang2
If there was ever any possibility of me becoming a suicide bomber, this would be it.
61 posted on 02/19/2003 5:56:53 AM PST by lonestar (Don't mess with Texans)
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To: Arkansawyer
Hillary is from Illinois, NOT Arkansas.

sorry about that. You gave us bill, which brought on hillary.

62 posted on 02/19/2003 5:58:32 AM PST by retiredtexan
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To: Arkansawyer
Hillary is from Illinois, NOT Arkansas.

sorry about that. You gave us bill, which brought on hillary.

63 posted on 02/19/2003 5:59:03 AM PST by retiredtexan
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
"...The Tribune, like every other paper in the world, carried the front-page story:
During a private meeting at the United Nations, just before a Nicolae Carpathia press conference, a horrifying murder/suicide had occurred. New U.N. Secretary-General Nicolae Carpathia had just installed the ten new members of the expanded Security Council, seeming to err by inaugurating two men to the same position of U.N. ambassador from the Great States of Britain. ..."
64 posted on 02/19/2003 6:01:15 AM PST by Elenya ( And So It Begins...)
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To: Elenya
You ARE a LB reader.........just remember.......in the end Good triumps over evil!
65 posted on 02/19/2003 6:09:02 AM PST by Faith65
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To: Faith65
Sure, but it's the part in between that scares me.
66 posted on 02/19/2003 6:12:45 AM PST by Elenya ( And So It Begins...)
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To: Elenya
Me too!
67 posted on 02/19/2003 6:16:33 AM PST by Faith65
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To: retiredtexan
Hillary is from Illinois, NOT Arkansas. sorry about that. You gave us bill, which brought on hillary.

Let me amend my statement.The ignorant and uninformed of our voters gave us them , the new yorkers are keeping them up front.

68 posted on 02/19/2003 6:23:58 AM PST by retiredtexan
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To: JohnHuang2
Matthews has been saying that is what Clinton has been aiming at since he left office. Either that or President of the World Bank.
69 posted on 02/19/2003 6:29:24 AM PST by mware
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To: The Wizard
Clinton would use it as a way to get laid around the world, would probably catch a disease and go to Arlington

The veterans buried around him would probably dig themselves up and drag their coffins far away.

70 posted on 02/19/2003 6:31:52 AM PST by steve-b
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To: Faith65
We knew it could get bumpy before leaving but knowing that God's words are true, His plan will come to pass.

Given that, I immensely look forward to the day, to stand in awe to see God's WORD come to pass that "EVERY knee bow (especially Bill and Hillary Clinton's), and "EVERY tongue confess (especially Bill and Hillary Clinton's) that Jesus Christ is LORD of All
71 posted on 02/19/2003 6:33:22 AM PST by time4good
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To: mware
Kofi had best watch his back and stay off planes.
72 posted on 02/19/2003 6:44:59 AM PST by surrey
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To: Magoo
"Beware of the man in the blue turbine"

Would that be Koffi ONAN ?
73 posted on 02/19/2003 6:48:23 AM PST by ohmage
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To: CDHart
Their lust for power is unquenchable. I have a friend who has been telling me for two years that Clinton IS the Antichrist. I discounted it.
74 posted on 02/19/2003 6:53:51 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Samwise
This is too scarey to think about. Maybe I should quit reading stuff on Free Republic. Ignorance is bliss.

I wish I was a Moron!

75 posted on 02/19/2003 7:11:20 AM PST by Charlie OK (mo' muslims, mo' problems)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
I have long suspected Clinton was the Anti-christ. The way people idolize him no matter what he does has always un-nerved me. Some otherwise intelligent and rational people I know think he is the greatest guy since Jesus himself.
76 posted on 02/19/2003 7:14:58 AM PST by Charlie OK (Clinton is the Anti-Christ)
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To: Charlie OK
There is an amazing "disconnect" with people who worship not just Bill but also Hillary despite their cold, icey, ruthless clawing to power. To me - anyone who still idolizes this pair are totally deceived and totally "in league" with the devil and need to have God remove the blinders. Likely, it will take millions of dead Americans before some of them wake up to the reality of the "evil" that they worship.
77 posted on 02/19/2003 7:28:28 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Constitutional Patriot
I hope that he does get appointed. I also hope that shortly after this happens we evict the UN and send them packing to "Old Europe" where they will be more at home, with like-minded socialists

I agree. I have a few thoughts about this...

I haven't read that 1 veto from the Security Council would preclude him from the nomination, but I don't think he would be pursuing this course of action unless he knew that he could still be nominated regardless of whether the U.S. cast a veto. I am sure that the Klintoon's would blame the VRC and President Bush.

If he is nominated and appointed, that would be great. If he gets appointed and President Bush is still President, he will take action against President Bush.

When I mean action, I am not talking about blocking Bush's agenda. That is to be expected. In fact, that is all the B*tch with a capital "C" (D-NY) has done since elected to the Senate.

What I am talking about would be a military action against the U.S. sactioned, of course, by the UN. He would do have to do this to appease all of his two-bit dictator supporters in the UN. You know that he would do this, because the man is an empty suit; he has a void inside of him that he fills with the adoration of others. He has no integrity, so he has to derive his self worth by pleasing as many people as possible, regardless of the person or traditions he has destroy to do that.

When he takes action against the U.S., the President will (rightly) declare him a traitor to his country. At that point, his citizenship would be revoked and he would be someone else's problem.

The arguements have abounded for years to get rid of the UN. The appointment of Bubba Klintoon and his expected anti-American sentiments would soldify the ultimate disolution of this body.

This is a reason why he wouldn't do it: because he and the UN would become (rightfully) irrelevant.

78 posted on 02/19/2003 7:58:21 AM PST by mattdono
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To: retiredtexan
But...there is a viable solution...and the best one that comes to mind is a five letter word that I can not mention on this forum. It is a word for not living "_EATH!" Fill in the blank.
79 posted on 02/19/2003 8:08:14 AM PST by MrJoe
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
"Their lust for power is unquenchable. I have a friend who has been telling me for two years that Clinton IS the Antichrist. I discounted it."

I said that here more than THREE years ago and got flamed royally.

Michael

80 posted on 02/19/2003 8:17:50 AM PST by Wright is right!
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