Who Wants Annan's Head And Why?! (Accra Mail)

[struggle4progress]

September 13, 2005
Posted to the web September 14, 2005

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.

<snip> In the main, the Volcker Commission concluded that any irregularities that appear to have occurred, both in reality and perceptibly, must be squarely blamed on the Permanent Members of the United Nations' Security Council, namely, the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France (see USA Today 9/8/05).

Interestingly, the Commission's Chairman, Paul Volcker, an American national and former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the political coordinate of the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, unleashed his most poignant criticism against the United States, which Mr. Volcker claims violated the protocol of the program right from the latter's inception in 1996. <snip>

Interestingly, however, in submitting the findings of his Commission, Mr. Volcker stated, among other things, that: "The United States and other members of the allowed oil shipments to Jordan and Turkey because those two countries were desperate after the Iraq sanctions blocked access to their largest trading partner and interrupted oil supplies"(USA Today 9/8/05). <snip>

In fine, Mr. Volcker seems to be implying that it was the Republican-dominated Washington, DC, which woefully corrupted the efficient running of the Iraqi Oil-For-Food Program. And this egregious instance of ethical breach, it must be noted, occurred before Mr. Kofi Annan assumed administrative reins of the United Nations Organization. <snip>

http://allafrica.com/stories/200509140299.html

[pushycat]

1. Enter John Bolton

Powderhead to run the bulldozer.

<snip>That Mr. Annan has stood unwaveringly amidst Washington's brazen diplomatic terrorism, may yet see the ace Ghanaian super-diplomat clinch another Nobel Peace Prize. And next year, when his term of office runs out, Mr. Annan would leave New York with quiet dignity, with his chest thrust out and his princely head held high up as a Ghanaian prince and diplomat ought to.<snip>

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