How very interesting. If only we did not have a history of misutilization of funds by leaders from his continent.

We know why France, Russia and China were against the Iraqi invasion (they had signed huge contracts with Saddam and were waiting for the embargo to be lifted to fructify those contracts). Now we also know why Kofi was upset.

Quoting the rabid “opinion Journal” for justification ? tsk tsk, you wannabe-neocons are pathetic.

Find some other news source (preferably NOT Murdoch or Conrad Black owned) which talks about the oil for food program and THEN try blogging.

Dislike for terrorists my a$$, the only reason you nutjobs dont like Arundhati because she has humiliated your kind (remember the Narmada project ?) over and over again. She has made you her collective b*tch and you hate it, but cant do anything about it.

BTW, its Arundhati who is making her voice heard, getting her views across, winning awards and doing a damn fine job as the best ambassador that India could produce.

And that leaves disillusioned pathettic little bloggers like you, code-coolie by vocation, wannabe neocon mover and shaker in this tiny little blog world.

Thanks, yomomma! I am happy to be on the other side of someone as full of BS as you. I really appreciate your brightening my otherwise dull day :beam:

Kofi Annan himself admitted the stuff about his son, but you would actually have to read linked stuff and understand it, which I am sure is a hard job for someone who is not a pathetic blogger or a code-coolie (psst, Dilip D’Souza, guess who coined the term!). Secondly, here is a Washington Times link that says the same thing - http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20040429-120918-1334r.htm, but you are probably so right in your world that the newspaper might be wrong too…

Btw, what does Arundhati Roy and her Narmada River project has to do with humiliating me? I might actually feel insulted if you told me what it is I need to feel insulted about, so help me here, alright?

If the United Nations were even partly effective in its core mission, one could be forgiven for overlooking such embarrasing and frequent ethical/moral lapses.

It isn’t. Far from it.

Whats stunning is that most Indians retain a fawning attitude towards the UN. There is very little by way of critique of the UN in Indian media.

Well, Indian Express has bucked the trend by publishing two strong critiques of the United Nations over the past year. Do check these out here:

http://secular-right.blogspot.com/2004/11/united-nations_30.html

Thanks, Shanti.

Dislike for terrorists my a$$, the only reason you nutjobs dont like Arundhati because she has humiliated your kind (remember the Narmada project ?)

Dunno the effective of which hallucigen is making you say these things yomma, but you don’t seem to have the faintest clue that it’s our Lady of Virtuous Vituperation who got her nose rubbed in the dust in l’affaire Narmada.

First, the campaign came to nought because not only is the dam is being built, but it is being built almost to the height the planners want to. Two, when Humiliator thought she could humiliate the supreme court judges, who allowed the dam to be built, she was in for a shock: they threw her in jail. Indian jail, mind you, where she’d have needed to use the Indian, squatting-type pot if she needed to take a (biological, not literary) dump. Three: the judges gave her ample opportunity to get herself martyred: she could have stayed 3 months in the jail, if she wanted to. And thereby could have become the rallying-point for an anti-judicial-tyranny revolution. But nope, having no stomach for that kind of heroism, Humiliator quietly crawled out of her prison cell before it was sundown.

I wonder what Kofi would have said had we found WMD in Iraq!

Well, yomomma, if the UN is so fabulous why not have India participate in that UN plebiscite in Kashmir that Pakistan wants so much. UN - good, right?

Sen. Norm Coleman ® has been holding hearings on the subject of UN mismanagement of funds. Good. It’s about time. I keep thinking about the last time I spoke to my mother: there was a family back home who worked for the UN and they had arranged for their son to go to school on a special scholarship that was supposed to go to a needy kid - and all the while these people were getting a good salary and traveling first class on the UN dime. Nice, huh? Whether this is an aberration or part of something systemic should be studied. I don’t care if you are Halliburton, the RNP, the UN, the AFL-CIO, the BJP or the Congress Party. All large organizations have the potential for abuses and we, the people, should keep an eye out for those abuses.

It ain’t no right or left thing. It’s just good common sense.