BBC - Whitewashing the UN

The BBC report "United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has defended his organisation, insisting the world needs the UN. "

Don't tell that to half a million dead Rawandans or 70,000 dead in Darfur; which by the way is not genocide according to the UN. Or the survivors of the tsunami disaster. A lot more of them would be dead if the world had waited for the UN.

But the BBC are happy to join in with Annan's defense of the indefensible.

The Secretary General has been under intense pressure over his leadership of the UN, following its role in the so-called oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.

"So called"? Annan himself and his son are under investigation over the scam. Annan just suspended the head of the scam and another top official for misconduct. The man heading the investigation, Volcker had to issue an interim report on the investigation because new evidence emerged implicating Annan. There is nothing "so called" about it.

Legacy media, including the BBC, stonewalled and wouldn't report on the scandal until the bloggers shamed them into it.

And it was time the world was united on the issue of Iraq, after last month's election, he said.

No Annan, the time for that was before 18 UN resolutions and ten years of Saddam thumbing his nose at you and your merry band at the UN.
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