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2004-11-30 Home Front: WoT
U. S. Sen Coleman: "Kofi Annan Must Go"
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Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-30 8:18:22 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 wow! My surprise Mrs D! - I figured Mike S posted this ;-)
Posted by Frank G  2004-11-30 8:25:42 PM||   2004-11-30 8:25:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 That's OK, Frank, lots of people confuse us. We've both got a mouth.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-30 8:28:33 PM||   2004-11-30 8:28:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 hopefully Mr. Davis can make the distinction :-)
Posted by Frank G  2004-11-30 8:30:35 PM||   2004-11-30 8:30:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yaaah-hoooo! I do believe I hear the whistle as the train picks up speed coming down that "fuck-you" track.

Buh-bye, coffee.

Heh. Pass the popcorn. :-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-11-30 8:32:21 PM||   2004-11-30 8:32:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Senator Coleman's statement is concise, well written, and right to the point. The way you deal with this corruption, as well as the stonewalling, is to steadily move ahead and not let all the obstructions stall you. Senator Coleman's committee WILL get to the bottom of this, and any obstruction on the part of the UN will just make it worse.

Kofi---how does it feel to be in a REAL Quagmire? Bwahahahahahahahahahaha!

Hats off to Senator Coleman and his investigative committee. Keep up the pressure.
Posted by Alaska Paul  2004-11-30 8:40:02 PM||   2004-11-30 8:40:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 How about taking it one step further, and getting the whole UN organization out of New York?
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-30 9:46:33 PM||   2004-11-30 9:46:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Amazing. Coleman succintly wraps up what the New York Times has never been able to do with one of the greatest stories of the year, if not the decade.

Interesting that the only paper to do anything serious with this scandal has been the Wall Street Journal and the estimable Claudia Rossett.
If she doesn't win a Pulitzer for her work, the prize is a total sham.

But back to Coleman. He's got it exactly right. It is Annan who must take the blame for this mess and, it is Annan, who has on his hands the blood of the Iraqi people who suffered unnecessarily because of Saddam's perfidy. Our soldiers too are suffering and dying because of Kofi Annan's miserable stewardship of the Oil-for-Food program.

Off with his head.
Posted by RMcLeod 2004-11-30 9:51:55 PM||   2004-11-30 9:51:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Good idea, B-A-R, but Senator Coleman is laying the groundwork first. Like building demolition. Weaken the main supports at the core and the building's mass will fall inward on itself. Heh heh. Barbara, pass the popcorn, please. This will be a total entertainment package.
Posted by Alaska Paul  2004-11-30 9:52:16 PM||   2004-11-30 9:52:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ...the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N....
LOL, $20 plus billion??? Its the most extensive fraud in the history of fraud!
Posted by Darth VAda  2004-11-30 10:12:45 PM||   2004-11-30 10:12:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's the real reason to ditch the poxy bastards:


Technical Subgroup on the
Movement of Natural Persons - Mode 4

The Technical Subgroup (TSG) on the Movement of Natural Persons - Mode 4 was established by the Statistical Commission at its thirty-fifth session in 2004 (2004 Report of the Task Force on Trade in Services to the Statistical Commission). The TSG consists of experts from international organizations and national statistical offices. UNSD holds the Chair and Secretariat of the group. The first meeting of the TSG was held in September 2004 in Paris.

The objectives of the work of the Technical Subgroup comprise:

* Development of a conceptual framework for the measurement of the Movement of Natural Persons and, in particular, of Mode 4;
* Proposals of indicators/variables which provide a measure of the impact of the movement of natural persons in the host and home countries;
* Preparation of data collection guidelines.

The TSG will work in close cooperation with international organizations and existing expert groups to provide input in the revision and update processes of economic and social statistics standards, namely the revision of the IMF 5th Edition of the Balance of Payments Manual (BPM5), the update of the 1993 System of National Accounts (1993 SNA), the revision of the Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA) and the revision of the Census recommendations.

The framework for the measurement of the movement of natural persons, currently being developed by the TSG, will serve as a basis for

* An annex or a chapter in the revised Balance of Payments Manual,
* A chapter in the revised Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services,
* A dissemination paper for trade negotiators.



Yeah guys, but don't ya think those Un-Natural Persons (particularly those pesky Mode 1 & 2's) need lots more studyin'up on?...
Posted by mojo  2004-11-30 10:39:23 PM||   2004-11-30 10:39:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Let's not forget that Norm Coleman is the Republican who won the contest for Paul Wellstone's seat in 2002 against Walter Mondale.

This was the contest made infamous at places like Rantburg by the Wellstone funeral that turned into a Get Out Your Rage rally, as well as the MSM's apparent assumption that Mondale would win and complete shock that he did not.

Thank God Coleman won.
Posted by Carl in N.H.  2004-11-30 10:45:33 PM||   2004-11-30 10:45:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Kofi going would be really bad. It would nicely wrap up the whole thing and all would be back to business as usual. Much better for a showdown with Kofi and the UN vs congress... ending in a bill to leave the UN and start a new organization.

I don't want the UN to cooperate in the investigation. I don't want Kofi to step down. I don't want them to work with us. I want this situation to EXPLODE.
Posted by Damn_Proud_American  2004-11-30 11:03:34 PM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com]  2004-11-30 11:03:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm with you, D-A-P, and as a corollary I do not want someone I respect like Vaclav Havel replace him. The UN is rotten through and through, nothing that someone like Havel can "cure" -- he would only be tainted by it.
Posted by Carl in N.H.  2004-11-30 11:15:20 PM||   2004-11-30 11:15:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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