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To: Sully- who wrote (1540)	4/30/2004 6:36:23 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

KOFI'S CANARD April 29, 2004 -- <font size=4>U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is simply beyond shame. <font size=3> Look what slipped from his lips at a Turtle Bay press conference yesterday: "Violent military action by an occupying power against the inhabitants of an occupied country will only make matters worse." His topic was continuing Coalition efforts to pacify Iraq. Annan was speaking of the U.S. Marines in Fallujah, who for two full weeks have been absorbing casualties during a unilateral "ceasefire." And of U.S. Army troops arrayed outside Najaf, sitting on their hands while Muqtada al-Sadr's fundamentalist militia solidifies its grip on the holy city. <font size=4> Let's be clear here. Annan speaks in support of the most violent and irresponsible minorities in Iraq - hard-core Ba'athist holdouts, many of them ex-Republican Guard thugs who put thousands of Iraqis into mass graves. Of course, Annan strenuously opposed Saddam's ouster in the first place. Just why he did is becoming more clear. Yesterday, in Washington, a congressional committee began sorting through the details of Annan's sordid Iraq Oil-for- Food program - a squalid scandal that is arguably the largest embezzlement scheme in human history. Annan's own son is implicated in the multibillion-dollar rip-off - as is the man Annan hand-picked to run the program, and officials of many of the countries and companies who also opposed Saddam's dispossession. The grotesque scam's chief victims were the people of Iraq: They lived in brutal poverty while Saddam, the foreigners he bribed and cynical U.N. officials skimmed off billions meant for food and humanitarian aid. But perhaps the most significant casualty of the scandal is the moral authority of the United Nations - not just Annan, but the institution itself. Indeed, the secretary-general's continuing presence - to say nothing of his shameful slurs on U.S. soldiers - demeans the expectations of freedom-loving people everywhere. They once thought universal peace and justice to be possible through the good offices of the United Nations. No reasonable person can believe that any longer. Kofi Annan should just go away. <font size=3> nypost.com

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