Wednesday, December 01, 2004

if only the bush administration was held this accountable!

From cnn

U.S. senator wants Annan to resign as U.N. leader Coleman looking
into alleged fraud in oil-for-food program run by U.N.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. senator leading the investigation into allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Iraq oil-for-food program is urging U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign.
The "massive scope of this debacle demands nothing less," wrote Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota, in an opinion piece published Wednesday in The Wall Street
Journal.
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"The world will never be able to learn the full extent of the bribes, kickbacks and under-the-table payments that occurred under the U.N.'s collective nose while Annan is in charge."
Coleman is chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which has been investigating the oil-for-food program for seven months.
Coleman said he was not accusing Kofi Annan of anything "other than incompetence and mismanagement."


Isn't it too bad that the Repubs don't demand as much from their leader?! If only "incompetence and mismanagement" were the only problems of bush & cheney!! Isn't it crazy how much we demand of other leaders and how little we expect of our own?