McCain is suggesting a "replacement" to the United Nations. It'll be a warm day in the Ukraine before I vote for McCain, but only the most hardened liberal could see any value in the United Nations. It's a useless body of terrorists, despots and do-nothings (and I'm being kind). The MSM loved McCain when he was the maverick and outspoken critic of President Bush, but the MSM has taken out the long knives.

When will the DEMS introduce bold ideas like this? Is invective and hatred enough for a national platform?

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On the subject of invective...here's a video of Joe Biden (D, Caracas). Blind rage. Google it.

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...for those who put their faith in the UN.

Former U.N. oil-for-food head charged with bribery

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former executive director of the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq and a brother-in-law of a former U.N. secretary-general have been charged with bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud tied to the program, a U.S. federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.

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**UPDATE**

Claudia Rosett on Oil-for-Foof and Benon Sevan:

Sevan’s indictment has just changed that equation. With charges now brought against him, the clock has stopped ticking on the statute of limitations. The U.S. has placed a lien on his Hamptons home, and lodged a warrant with Interpol for his arrest — which means he could be nabbed if he tries to travel across national borders. Unless he wants to risk a trial in New York, Sevan, now 69, faces a choice between spending quite possibly the rest of his life holed up on Cyprus, under the cloud of this indictment, or attempting a deal with the prosecutors. For Sevan, who spent his career as a globe-trotting U.N. official whose wife and daughter have spent years in the U.S., and who once ran the biggest relief program ever launched by the U.N., this ought to be a thought-provoking turn of events.

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...one letter for every dollar of graft or slander against America and Israel under his tenure (er, reign) would require me to make 112,010,800 posts with an average of 798 letters per post.

Mr. Annan was given the leadership of the world body with the backing of America and, despite the eruption on his watch of the worst scandals in the history of the world body, was kept in office by the acquiescence of America. Our taxpayers have helped underwrite a luxurious residence for him. He won the Nobel Prize for work funded by America. Yet he has chosen to depart his office with a bitter diatribe directed at the very country at whose table he for so long supped.

The gist of Mr. Annan's criticism is that America has disappointed the world by failing to live up to its own ideals. That notion in and of itself is not all that outrageous. America has always set itself the highest of goals, and it has always fallen short. America, however, has landed much higher up the hill of its ideals than the United Nations has landed on the mountain of its own ideals. That's a context in which Mr. Annan's choosing to take such a high profile parting shot at America takes on a sinister, political tone.

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I don’t deserve the honor of speaking here today. At least once in every life there comes a moment of honesty, and for reasons I cannot fathom — perhaps the shock of looking back at just what a self-serving failure I have been — this is mine.

In truth, if Harry Truman had foreseen the swollen, corrupt, and anti-American reality of today’s U.N. — including my own efforts to meddle in U.S. politics — he might have scrapped the whole project.

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...but not before a parting shot at the Bush Administration.

Annan, who leaves the United Nations on Dec. 31 after 10 years as secretary-general, has become an increasingly vocal critic of the war in Iraq.

He said in the text the U.S. has a special responsibility to the world because it continues to have extraordinary power.

Annan summed up five principles he considers essential: collective responsibility, global solidarity, rule of law, mutual accountability and multilateralism.

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Collective responsibility = Communism
Global solidarity = Communism
Rule of law = Communism
Mutual accountability = Communism
Multilateralism = Communism

The UN is wickedly corrupt and a breeding ground for tyrants, soothsayers and poor deciders. Kofi would like all Americans to forfeit their sovereignty in exchange for global taxes, layers, layers and layers of international bureaucracy and a neutering our armed services. I can only hope the UN fails like the League of Nations.

Here's Kofi in his own words:

How can states hold each other to account? Only through multilateral institutions. So my final lesson is that those institutions must be organized in a fair and democratic way, giving the poor and the weak some influence over the actions of the rich and the strong.

The response over at Captain's Quarters is persuasive and powerful (thanks Mr. Russert).

Update: Kofi Annan Leaves. Israel & America Still Exist Despite His Best Efforts

During his tenure at the United Nations, Kofi Annan gave tacit approval to a host of anti-semetic initiates designed to wipe Israel from the map. He oversaw initiatives designed to undercut western economies in the name of "global warming" while propping up third world despots.

Kofi Annan also oversaw the U.N. oil-for-food program that saw $1.5 billion in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein and lingering questions about kickbacks personally to Annan's family.

Then, of course, there were the mass rapings of children in Africa by U.N. Peace Keepers that Kofi sought to cover up. Kofi Annan came to power expecting to be an international power broker. Instead he saw a new American administration that recognized the uselessness of the U.N. bureaucracy and an inept Secretary-General. And he reacted bitterly.

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