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2006-12-11 International-UN-NGOs

Annan criticizes U.S. in farewell speech

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Posted by tu3031 2006-12-11 14:26|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hope you enjoyed the Mercedes asshole.

Posted by danking_70 2006-12-11 14:51|| 2006-12-11 14:51|| Front Page Top

#2 And how is this different from every other speech he has given?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-12-11 16:01|| 2006-12-11 16:01|| Front Page Top

#3 He chose the venue, Truman Library, to convey his "A good US is the US that does the UN's bidding..." message. Phony. Panderer. Pilferer. Plunderer. Pirate. Punk. Perv. Prick. Putz. Party-grrl. Prostitute. Politician.

(I hope that last one doesn't get me sink-trapped. It's purdy graphic...)

Posted by .com 2006-12-11 16:45|| 2006-12-11 16:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Politician's the worst of the bunch .com

Posted by danking_70 2006-12-11 16:51|| 2006-12-11 16:51|| Front Page Top

#5 ;-)

Posted by .com 2006-12-11 16:56|| 2006-12-11 16:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah,
Annan - don't forget your hero Truman dropped the A-bomb twice and went to Korea to stop commies....

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Posted by 3dc 2006-12-11 17:42|| 2006-12-11 17:42|| Front Page Top

#7 What Kofi's still here? Better flush again.

Posted by DMFD 2006-12-11 17:43|| 2006-12-11 17:43|| Front Page Top

#8 When the U.S. "appears to abandon its own ideals and objectives, its friends abroad are naturally troubled and confused," he said.
It's the friends abroad part that I'm troubled and confused by. There seems to be precious few of them and it has nothing to do with GWB or Iraq. I think the cancer on Turtle Bay Kofi is in charge of is the root of that problem.

Posted by JerseyMike 2006-12-11 20:21|| 2006-12-11 20:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I am very busy today but felt the need to come to Rantburg to say "F** You" to Kofi.

The Secretary General of the UN is basically a functionary atop a bureaucracy constructed along the lines of a corrupt, Third World (sorry for the redundancy) Ministry of Agriculture.
He has no real power as the Security Council, comprised of the victors of WWII (Ghana was not among them), makes the real decisions.

Yet our leftwing, "transnational progressive" media treats this lazy, corrupt functionary as though he is legitimately president of the world and we'd best follow his commands. After all the UN flag is a nice shade of blue and has a dove on it so whatever he says must lead to peace and tranquility.

Ironically, the cover provided by Kofi's corrupt, incompetent bureacracy to the world's tin pot dictators actually increases the likelihood of armed conflict since it is so perfectly incapable of confronting threats before it becomes necessary for us to destroy them.

It's really a damn shame we cannot have a serious, effective multinational organization. I wish the US would just exit the UN and try to form a "League of Democracies" interested in seriously dealing with threats to global security. The Proliferation Security Initiative is about the closest thing on the planet to this ideal. But it was started by Bush and Rumsfeld so it must be a bad idea.

Posted by JAB 2006-12-11 21:33|| 2006-12-11 21:33|| Front Page Top

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