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2006-12-18 International-UN-NGOs

LAT Editorial Woof: Kofi Annan's tough love

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Posted by .com 2006-12-18 04:24|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yes, constant criticism of the US followed by a blind eye to everyone else is the role of the Secretary-General.

Posted by gromky 2006-12-18 04:31|| 2006-12-18 04:31|| Front Page Top

#2 the new one, in principle at least, aims to prevent another Holocaust.

The blood of 800,000 Rwandans is on Kofi's hands, dipshit. I guess that genocide didn't count, nor is what's happening in Darfur under his watch. Let's not even get into the near-weekly condemnation of Israel through some stupid resolution passed in a "human rights" council starring such beacons of hope as Saudi Arabia and Libya.

If getting the blessing of that gang of idiots is what constitutes "legitimacy", we're better off without it.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-12-18 05:30|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-12-18 05:30|| Front Page Top

#3 What an unregurgitated tub of rancid male bovine feces. Koffing Anus is the biggest disaster to hit the United Nations in its history. He has done nothing to help the world, only to help himself. He should be hanged, not lauded.

The Middle East is a disaster. The Israeli/Arab conflagration is one of the key ingredients, yet the UN has done nothing to achieve any kind of an easing of tensions. Today UNIFIL "peacekeepers" sit on their duffs while Hezbollah rearms for round II of their current intramural clash. This time, hundreds of UNIFIL useful idiots will be in the middle. I would care less if Israel massacred the entire lot of them.

Rwanda is definitely something to lay at Koffing's doorstep. The death of 800,000 people is not something to shrug off. The currend depredations in Darfur, the Congo, southern Sudan, and Somalia are brought to you courtesy of Koffing's "unique" style of diplomacy - grimace a lot, but do nothing.

The UN was almost the last guy on the block in Sumatra, responding to the earthquake and tsunami there. Aid that should have gone to many of the more deserving victims ended up in too many of Koffing's friends' pockets. The same was true of the earthquake in Kashmir/Pakistan.

Finally, Oil for Palaces and Guns was a crime against all the people of the world, but most especially the people of Iraq. Koffing should be tried as a war criminal, with the leadership of France, Germany, Russia, China, and 20 other nations should be tried as co-conspirators.

The writer is a typical liberal idiot without an education. The United Nations was the brainchild of FDR, not Truman. Truman only made it happen after his boss's death. The only thing it's gotten right in the past 50+ years was the Korean War, and that's only because the Russians boycotted a meeting. In the meantime, the UN has more than quadrupled in size, has spun off hundreds of sub-groups, and has become so ineffective it cannot even take care of its own people, much less those that it has chosen to "shepherd". It's a failed non-state, and needs to have the plug pulled once and for all - the plug that is the only thing that keeps it from swirling down the drain and into oblivion as it well deserves.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-12-18 19:25|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-18 19:25|| Front Page Top

#4 "US of A" = GRANNY'S Undefeated Southerners of America, ala BEVERLY HILLBILLIES???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-12-18 23:05|| 2006-12-18 23:05|| Front Page Top

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