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Who Said It?

From Yahoo News:

"If you read the reports it looks as if the Saddam regime had nothing to do with it. They did nothing wrong, it was all the UN," he told reporters in some of his bluntest comments yet on the matter.

"Some of the comments that I have been read have been constructive and thoughtful. Others have been rather outrageous and exaggerated," he said.

Matt's Chat

That would be our good friend Kofi Annan talking about UNSCAM. Mr. Annan thinks we should all forget about what the UN did and focus on Saddam. Isn't that convenient NOW?

It gets better:

"We had no mandate to stop oil smuggling," Annan said. "There was no way the UN could have stopped it."

He said some of the smuggling was done overland in trucks through northern Iraq, where the United States and Britain at the time patrolled a "no-fly" zone -- and a similar zone in the south -- that kept the regime hemmed in.

"They were driving the trucks through northern Iraq to Turkey," Annan said. "The US and the British had planes in the air. We were not there. Why is all this being dumped on the UN?"

Oh, so it was OUR fault, now... OK, let's talk about your son, Kofi...

Annan has also been put on the defensive because of revelations that his son Kojo worked for a company, Cotecna, that was contracted to work under the programme.

"There is nothing in the accusations about my son. He joined the company even before I became secretary general," the UN chief said. "Neither he nor I had anything to do with the contract for Cotecna."

Which means you were in a position to do favors for your son and/or his company.

What else you got? That's what I thought...keep trying though, these chats are pretty amusing.

Mark's Remarks

Yes, Kofi, Saddam was involved...but so were you...So was your son...so were your subordinates, charged with doing the just work of getting food to the Iraqis, not taking kickbacks.

And no mandate to stop smuggling? Come on, Kofi, you are sounding like an equivocating third grader who is caught in a lie. Surely you have better excuses in the UN handbook than this, right?

And laying blame on the people who removed your cashflow? Kofi, talk about an ignorant and illogical argument. You did, like, go to college, right?

And you can't honestly think there are no conflict of interest issues with the whole Cotecna thing? I mean, do you think just because you are head of a crooked Hate America First Club that you shouldn't at least know a little about ethics? Come on, Kofi, say something almost rational, I dare ya.