The UN and what to do about it

Writing in the New York Times, William Safire is even calling for Koffi Annan to resign over the UN oil for food scandal.

And now The New York Sun reports "Annan's Son Took Payments Through 2004"

Recently Reuters reported The United Nations (news - web sites) is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.

The UN makes a habit of investigating itself and then finding nothing amiss.

Then there are the failures in Rawanda and the Sudan.

It's no wonder UN staff to vote on no-confidence motion against Annan? Especially after this.

The lawyer for a United Nations staff member who brought sexual harassment charges against Ruud Lubbers, the high commissioner for refugees, said Friday that Secretary General Kofi Annan's admission that he had overruled his own investigators in clearing Mr. Lubbers would support an appeal against the ...

The vote passed but stopped short of condemning Annan by name but did condemn senior management.

And the hits just keep coming. Today LFG is reporting "that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which administers UN services in the Palestinian territories, has accepted millions of dollars in funding from groups that openly support international terrorism."

All of this and more have prompted CONGRESS EYES U.N. FUND CUT

It has been done before.
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