Far from subsiding into the backwaters of oblivion like most UN-o-philes would love, the Oil for Food Scandal keeps getting ranker and ranker. NOw the number 2 man (woman) under Kofi Annan has been implicated and is going to go down.
Who is this mysterious interloper? Louise Frechette. A French Canadian! 2 birds just fell with that oil slick. Yes, we knew of France's complicity, and while Madame Frechette is not French, now we see the levels in Canada this scandal is reaching and why perhaps (who knows?) Canada fought so hard to stop the Iraq Invasion.
That it has already tarred and feathered so many of Annan's closest confidants is too much like the duck to deny the quack. The man is either as dirty as they come, or as stupid as the day is long. Either way, he is a very sad testament to the UN, or perhaps he is the perfect testament to an inept, incompetant, immoral outfit that has lost all respect throughout the world in everything except mouthing platitudes.
No one fears UN sanction. No one fears UN Actions. No one fears their pontificating and preening. Oh, many countries like Jacques Chiracs, French Bandits do pay them lip service, but that is all.
If the UN has any hope of being a recognized force for good in the world, they should get rid of the tin plated dictators that have so populated the heiracrchy of the organization of late, and do a clean sweep of the corruption that is rampant throughout the organization.
The UN serves but one purpose. To give 3rd world crackpots and dictators a forum to bitch about the industrialized world while robbing their citizens blind and diverting atttention from their own atrocities.
Will the UN clean their house? Will Pigs fly?