Perhaps This Kofi Needs "Creaming"

U.N. Voices 'Extreme Shock' Over Israeli Strike

By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 31, 2006; Page A09

NEW YORK, July 30 -- At an emergency session Sunday of the U.N. Security Council, Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed to members to condemn Israel's killing of a score of adults, plus three dozen children, in the Lebanese village of Qana and to press for an immediate cease-fire.

Annan delivered some of his harshest criticism to date of Israel's 2 1/2 -week-long military offensive against Hezbollah. He blamed the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia for triggering the current round of violence, but he said that Israel's reaction has been excessive and that commanders on both sides may have committed war crimes.

"Excellencies, we must condemn this action in the strongest possible terms, and I appeal to you to do likewise," Annan told the 15-nation council. "No one disputes Israel's right to defend itself. But by its manner of doing so, it has caused, and is causing, death and suffering on a wholly unacceptable scale."

After hours of negotiations, the council on Sunday night issued a statement expressing "extreme shock and distress" at Israel's attack on a residential building in Qana. The statement "strongly deplores" the loss of innocent lives but stopped short of urging an immediate truce. Instead, it calls for "an end to violence" while pressing its members to "work without delay" to reach agreement on a resolution that would help bring about "a lasting settlement of the crisis."

Perhaps Mr. Annan, if you had condemned Hizbollah's self proclaimed goal of the elimination of Israel, if you had condemned in equal terms and with equal vigor the terrorist acts of the past several years, perhaps if you had acted when you ought to have rather than spent your days enriching yourself and your family at the expense of world order and peace, then your condemnations would not even have been necessary. I don't recall your having expressed "extreme shock and distress" over the rockets Hizbollah has been launching over the cities of Israel for 2 1/2 weeks.

How is it that Hizbollah managed to import 13,000 missiles and rockets under the noses of your 2,000 UN "peacekeepers" without your even having been aware? Were they too busy raping little girls to notice? Or maybe they were just too busy helping Hizbollah move the rockets to notify you. Perhaps they were just asleep and didn't hear the trucks rolling by.

Seems to me Mr. Annan you spend a lot of time attacking America, Israel, and our actions in the Middle East and very little time actually doing anything to resolve the problems. For instance, I seem to recall that you sent a UN mission into Iraq, but the first time they were attacked, you courageously pulled them out. If this is the kind of fierce courage we can expect from your UN "problem solvers" then it is just possible that they would be of more hindrance than help.

Frankly Mr. Annan, I'm glad you are in the UN because it makes the job we UN bashers have a whole lot easier. Personally, I would like to see the UN run out of the United States because you cost us taxpayers a lot of money and you accomplish very little but the besmirching of Americas image and reputation around the world, and the enriching of corrupt leaders such as yourself.

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