Posted by
GunnyG© on Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:27:16 AM
This another article in the continuing saga of that paragon for virtue, that fighter for freedom, that stalwart warrior on the wall for Western Civilization, the awesome Kofi Annan.
Little did we know when Kofi took control of the bloated, useless, irrelevant, and corrupt UN in 1997 that things could get worse, much worse. Take the following exchange between Kofi Annan and reporter James Bone for example:
At the press conference at the UN, James Bone asked Annan about the whereabouts of a Mercedes bought by Kojo and imported into Ghana using his father’s diplomatic immunity to avoid paying taxes and customs duty.
"I think you’re being very cheeky," the normally low-key Annan interrupted. "Listen, James Bone, you’ve been behaving like an overgrown schoolboy in this room for many, many months and years. You are an embarrassment to your colleagues and to your profession. Please stop misbehaving and please let’s move on to a serious subject." (I guess investigating corruption and scammage is acting like a schoolboy.)
Annan continued: "I reserve the right to refuse to answer questions I don’t want to answer." He never did address the question about the Mercedes. (Did he take lessons from Bill Clinton?)
1. Moving on through Kofi's career, we learn that he did everything in power to prevent the War in Iraq but for reasons of his own. That is, he had presided over the greatest bribery scheme in history, known as Oil for Food.
2. Involved in that little con job was Benon Sevan, Kofi's butt-buddy and overall go-fer, who was in charge of administering the program, and had himself been a beneficiary of Iraqi kickbacks to the tune of $160,000.
3. Another UN hero involved was Mr. Annan's chief of staff, Iqbal Riza, who followed Hillary Clinton's Whitewater memo example and ordered ANY potentially incriminating documents to be destroyed.
4. Also closing both eyes was Kofi's deputy, Louise Frechette, who was aware of the kickback scheme but failed to report it to the Security Council, as her fiduciary duties required. (Silence=Consent)
5. In early 2006, Ol Kofi had to put eight senior U.N. procurement officials on leave pending investigations on bribery and other charges.
6. Vladimir Kuznetsov, the head of the U.N. budget-oversight committee, was indicted this year on money-laundering charges.
7. Alexander Yakovlev, another procurement official, pled guilty to skimming nearly $1 million off U.N. contracts.
8. The U.N.'s own office of Internal Oversight found that U.N. peacekeeping operations had mismanaged some $300 million in expenditures.
THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN MISMANAGED FUNDS! (I wonder WHOSE bank account THAT ended up in?)
Mr. Annan's response to all this has been a model of blame-shifting, obfuscation and patently insincere woe is me, apparently justified by his view that a Secretary General has more important things to do than administer his own organization. (attend fancy dinners, meet the beautiful people of the world, windsurf, etc)
In Rwanda, it was later revealed that Mr. Annan's office explicitly forbade peacekeepers from raiding Hutu arms caches in Rwanda just four months before the genocide. OOPS!
We now get to watch things like Zimbabwe, North Korea, Congo and Darfur unfold right before our eyes, on Kofi's watch. Let's not forget that in the Sudan and the Congo, UN peacekeepers were neck deep in rape and the slave trade. DOING IT, not stopping it.
We all remember Kofi first attempt to establish credibility in 1998, when he screened the opposition (the USA) for Saddam Hussein in order to stall military strikes by the United States. Kofi uttered these prophetic words: "Saddam was a man with whom he could do business." (You bet he could, to the tune of several milion dollars in bribe money!)
Kofi the Scammer then pulled the same stunt in days before the Iraq War and then helped the foreign terrorists out by calling the Coalition effort "ILLEGAL!" (I wonder how many US troops had to die because of those words?) But since Saddam was butchering the Iraqis at a rate of 36,000 a year, what does this say about the UN's caring for the unwashed masses that they are supposed to protect? I guess bagging the cash was way more important.
Kofi's new mission seems to be pizzing on our backs and telling us it's raining. His ONLY reform in the Oil-for-Food scam was, well, pretty much NOTHING! He replaced a defunct human-rights council with a new Human Rights Council and boy have they done well. So far, they've faulted one nation for it's human rights violations...Israel. I guess China pays those bribes on time to overlook their issues.
The Chronicles of Kofi Annan will no doubt continue because this guy is just like Jimmy Carter, a bloviating corrupt piece of dung whose mission in life is to live high on the hog on the backs of others. No wonder the Dhimmicrats and the UN get along so well, they have the same agenda.
One had to WONDER WHY IN THE H*LL our POLITICIANS HAVE NOT PASSED House Resolution 1146 to KICK THE UN OUT OF THE USA and GET US OUT!?

"I'm with the UN and I am here to help...
(myself to your money, food, water, women,
children, pretty much whatever I want.")