by Bill Levinson

A liar, a thief, a rapist, and a murderer. That’s not a man. Take it away.

- Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, regarding the deserter Obadiah Hakeswill.

While Kofi Annan is admittedly not a rapist or murderer, he is a liar who may have knowingly tolerated theft, murder (genocide in Darfur and Rwanda), and child rape during his tenure as Secretary-General. He is not anything that a decent person would recognize as a man, and it is high time for him to be taken away as well.

USA Today reports that Kofi Annan “blasted” the United States in his long-overdue farewell speech.

In the 61-year history of the U.N., no secretary-general has ended his tenure by criticizing U.S. policies so sharply, said Stanley Meisler, a historian of the United Nations and author of a new biography of Annan.

It is incredible that this piece of gutter trash would open his mouth to his civilized superiors, given the fact that his own background stinks with the United Nations’ oil-for-food and sex-for-food scandals. We remind our readers that both of these happened on Annan’s watch. The same for the genocides in Darfur and Rwanda, which Annan tolerated while looking for things to be wrong with the United States and, of course, Israel.

The apple does not fall far from the tree, and the alleged conduct of Kojo Annan reflects his father’s character, ethics, and integrity.

It seems there’s a lot the U.N. managed not to be aware of. But the information that Cotecna — while employing Kofi’s son in any capacity — put in the lowest bid by far for the job of authenticating Saddam’s Oil-for-Food imports, is not necessarily reassuring. Cotecna, which got paid roughly $6 million for its services during that first year (the U.N. will not release figures on Cotecna’s fees over the following years) was bidding on work that empowered its staff to inspect tens of billions worth of supplies inbound to a regime much interested in smuggling, and evidently accustomed to dealing in bribes and kickbacks as a routine part of business. The issue was never solely whether the monitors were cheap, but whether they were trustworthy.

…But what has to be clear by now is that the U.N. itself was either corrupt, or so stunningly incompetent as to require total overhaul. There are by now enough questions, there has been enough secrecy, stonewalling, and rising evidence of graft all around the U.N. program in Iraq, so that it is surely worth an independent investigation into the U.N. itself — and Annan’s role in supervising this program. If Kofi Annan will not exercise his authority to set a truly independent inquiry in motion, it is way past time for the U.S., whose taxpayers supply about a quarter of the U.N. budget, to call the U.N. itself to account for Oil-for-Food — in dollar terms the biggest relief operation it has ever run, and by many signs, one of the dirtiest.

The New York Sun adds,

It’s entirely possible that Mr. Annan has nothing to hide. We’re not making accusations. But if one has nothing to hide, why the secrecy? This is all the more the sad truth given that Mr. Annan’s personal tenure has been scarred not only by oil-for-food but by questions about his own financial integrity. His son, Kojo, was on the payroll of a company that profited from the oil-for-food scandal. There’s also the matter of the missing Mercedes that Annan junior procured after falsely using his father’s name. Mr. Annan denied knowledge of the car, despite wiring $15,000 to his son to help pay for the vehicle.

All on the watch of Kofi Annan, just like the sex-for-food scandal in which United Nations pedophiles, excuse us, peacekeepers, extorted sex from starving teenage and preteen girls.

It is to be remembered that an admiral had to resign from the U.S. Navy after the Tailhook scandal, simply because the conduct happened on his watch. The conduct (sexual harassment as opposed to actual rape) was less egregious, and the admiral probably did not even know about it. It speaks reams about the United Nations’ moral fitness to pass judgment on anything in this world that Kofi Annan was allowed to continue as Secretary-General after his subordinates molested and even raped young girls.

The New York Sun provides an outstanding summary of Kofi Annan’s tenure:

His term at the United Nations will be remembered only for the oil-for-food scandal, the sex-for-food scandal in the Congo, the massacres at Rwanda, Cambodia, and Srebrenica, and inaction in the face of the genocide in Darfur — and establishing that deception, secrecy, and patronage cannot be pierced by the reforms by which he sought to rescue his reputation.

Or, in simpler terms, “That’s not a man. Take it away.”

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