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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (663721)	12/3/2004 10:34:45 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Why would anybody support Kofi Annan?" I think the other Security Council members, and most of the General Assembly, regard him as 'sticking up' for the UN rules. (Much of the opposition to him, IMO, is because he had the gaul to say that the US invasion of Iraq --- because it was not authorized by the Security Council --- was in violation of UN regulations. It's 'pay-back time' from the US....) "I would love to know. From my vantage point, he has been the head of the UN while hundreds of thousands were killed in Rwanda, and now the Sudan," The UN has no standing army. It can only intervene with the support of it's member states. "and now he is also involved in the Oil for Food Scam." Yep... but the member states are more directly involved in the fraud and kick-backs (including some US companies, though far more with Russia). Also: ALL Security Council members (including the US) had direct approval for ALL contracts. IMO, it's not surprising that fraud was involved in the program --- it was poorly conceived from the beginning.