Posted on 02/20/2003 7:23:24 PM PST by webber
Report: Former president eyed to replace Kofi Annan
WorldNetDaily.com
February 19, 2003
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.(insert- HMMMM. I wonder WHY?)
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.
Don't know exactly how to get out of those! It actually messed up the computer and I'm on my laptop now!!
"Clinton particularly demonstrates, no politician is subject to the penalties of the law providing he's corrupt enough, or as in Jimmy Carter's case - stupid enough (( link )) ."
"[NOTE: With no official U.S. status, Clinton is a kind of traitor-at-large and turncoat- without-portfolio - in effect, all dressed up with no country to betray. Still he is the darling of the U.N. although, after the last time he got through addressing them, a decontamination squad in moon suits had to scrub down the lectern with penicillin. Bill Clinton should have been the head of the United Nations. That way, instead of being a disgrace to one country at a time, he could disgrace all of them all at once.]"
LOL! I think you bots are even more delusional than the klinton apologists.
Bush doesn't want to "blatantly point out his crimes", any more than he wants to point out the crimes going on here by illegals.
Anyway, he doesn't have time for prosecuting petty crimes like that since he's busy making virtually everything else a crime through his enactment of a police state.
Why sic federal prosecutors on one of your fellow elites, when it's so much easier to have them file felony charges against a housewife who forgets about the .38 in her purse while passing through Nazi security at the airports?
You are only halfway right on this...
GOP presidential frontrunner George W. Bush said on Sunday that President Clinton should have been convicted by the Senate last year on charges of impeachment and removed from office.But you are totally wrong on this one...
He has done nothing to pursue klinton's crimes since taking office.
A slowly developing story...
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton surely hopes that history isn't repeating itself with the raid conducted by the FBI last month on another warehouse; this one chock full of documents from her 2000 Senatorial campaign. "The documents were seized in a May 30 raid of a California storage facility containing documents of Peter Paul, the entrepreneur who funded Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign with over $2 million dollars in direct, in-kind contributions which were never reported by Hillary Clinton or her Senate campaign, as required by law," revealed the public interest law firm Judicial Watch in a press release late last week.FBI Raids Hillary's Warehouse in Whitewater Deja Vu
During the past two months, JW client Peter Paul has met with officials from the Justice Department in Brazil to tell all he knows about Senator Clinton's campaign finance scam.
But the last word on Mr. Paul is that higher-ups at Justice are starting to warm to the overwhelming evidence he and his lawyers at Judicial Watch have amassed.
Negotiations between the Justice Department and Paul, who had fled to Brazil after being indicted on stock fraud charges, are going well enough that he's expected to return to the U.S. in the coming months - a development which could signal a full blown federal probe into his allegations.
Thanks. I knew that Clinton was prohibited from becoming UN Secretary General, but I couldn't remember why the last time this topic came up a few days ago.
On the other hand, I bet Kofi Cup could get enough Communists in the UN together to amend the Charter.
Here is the on-line link to the United Nations Charter. Can someone show me the specific reference that prohibits a citizen of the permanent security council from being Secretary General, because I can't find it.
-PJ
WRONG! clintoon (actually both of them, or maybe all 3) is unable to recognize his failures. It's always someone else's fault.
He truly doesn't think he had the opportunity to do anything great, because he doesn't recognize that he had the chances. Cowards never do see it.
He could have rallied us around action after the 1st World Tower bombing, or Somalia, or the embassy bombings, or the Cole, or the NK nuclear threat, or... but he never did.
On the other hand, Bush could have led a "pity party" after 9/11 and petitioned the UN to "do something". But he didn't. He stepped up to it.
Men take action; cowards whine.
That's sort of like Poppy Bush saying he was pro-gun. It's a total lie, and served no purpose except for solidifying his conservative base. It runs in the family. Although, technically I don't guess he was lying, since he was only saying what his handlers told him.
Where was Bush when GOP Congressmen were putting their careers on the line to impeach Klinton? Where was he during the Senate trial? He was totally silent. Some leader.
At the time, I bought into the line of reasoning here that said that Bush's silence on impeachment was acceptable since he was going to reduce the size of the gov't. Boy, what a sucker I was.
$2 million dollars in direct, in-kind contributions which were never reported by Hillary Clinton or her Senate campaign, as required by law
So Hitlery broke the law by not reporting this $2 million dollars? If so, why hasn't she been charged yet?
You apparently did not go to the link provided...
The FBI raid may also be a sign that the reported no prosecution deal for the Clintons, demanded by Democrat leaders as the price for President Bush getting some of his legislative agenda implemented, is beginning to unravel - since Democrats seem to have kept little if any of their part of the bargain. (See: Bush Insider Claims Clinton Deal Torpedoed Pardongate).
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