World Gives White House, GOP Bronx Cheer
"The whiff of scandal has been swirling around the UN for months. But now Kofi Annan himself, the man handpicked by the Americans to lead the organisation seven years ago, is on the ropes ... Congressman Scott Garrett said earlier this week that the question was 'whether he should be in jail' ... On Monday, Tony Blair rushed to the secretary-general's rescue, saying Mr Annan was doing 'a fine job ... often in very difficult circumstances.'
... The campaign to remove him as UN chief has been bolstered by a TV video on the website of a Republican action group, which calls for the UN to be kicked out of New York, where it sits on prime real estate on Manhattan's East River ... While US conservatives seized on the initial allegations in the oil-for-food scandal to accuse anti-war countries France and Russia of illegally accepting Saddam's bribes, it now turns out that American companies and individuals are being investigated."
News: "blowing the equivalent of a diplomatic raspberry in the direction of Washington"
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Wednesday, December 08, 2004
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