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July 28, 2006

The United Nations and Kofi.

It’s not a secret that I do not like the UN. I think it’s a bloated, bureaucratic, innefective and farcical organization.

Wednesday, I had the pleasure of reading the transcript of Kofi being asked an uncomfortable question:

QUESTION: Thank you very much. James Rosen with Fox News representing the U.S. media. . . Secretary General Annan, I would also like you to address your statement of last night in which you effectively accused the Israelis of deliberately killing four U.N. personnel. Do you believe a statement like that enhances your role as an honest broker of peace?

SECRETARY GENERAL ANNAN: . . . let me say that I hope you read my statement and read it very carefully, because when you quote pieces in a press conference it has to be accurate. The statement said "apparently deliberate target." You dropped the word "apparent." I think it’s important in this.

What Kofi said originally was:

“I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces of a UN Observer post in southern Lebanon,”

Which does indeed contain the weasel word 'apparently', though could be construed as inflamatory in nature. Kofi uses his standard 'playing the man, not the ball' defense he used so well on Oil-For-Food corruption questions, and sidesteps whether such words enhance his standing as a broker of peace by attacking the reporter’s credibility.

The UN press releases of the 24th through 27th paint a slightly different picture, with Hezbollah firing on and killing peacekeepers in addition to using their positions as cover to launch rockets from. The Peacekeepers were aware of it but there wasn't a damn thing they could do but keep their heads down. The U.N. knew Hezbollah was fortifying positions dangerously close to UN outposts months ago.

There has, of course, been no condemnation of Hezbollah by Kofi on any of this.

Apparently, and I must stress the word apparently, Kofi Anan is a spineless, hypocritical sack of shit.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at July 28, 2006 09:37 AM

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