Kofi Annan on our 'illegal' war

I'm getting fed up with the United Nations and Kofi Annan. Recently, he gave an interview to the BBC, here it is. Let's take a look at some of the excerpts and examine why this man should go back to his third world country in Africa (whichever one he came from). Just to clarify, as I firmly believe in the letter of the Constitution, I agree that it is acceptable for the US government to sign a treaty like the one which formed the UN and enlisted us as a member. However, the idea that any authority controlled by people for whom I cannot vote has jurisdiction to overrule our sovereignty or to charge American citizens in a court of law is simply unacceptable. As a sidenote, the Bricker amendment should be revived and we should demand its passage.

• [Regarding the pending elections in Iraq next January] We have helped the Iraqis set up a legal framework for elections. Despite the security situation, I took a calculated risk and sent in two teams: one led by [Lakhdar] Brahimi, that helped them set up the interim government and another one led by Karina Pereira, who is the head of our electoral division and we helped them set up the legal framework for election political parties law, an independent electoral commission.

Yea, the UN really did alot for the Iraqi people who have been brutalized during the past 12-30 years by a madman, from whom UN member states were taking bribes. Does Kofi ever bother to acknowledge that the war waged by the US is the sole reason that elections are even being considered? Of course not.

• Q: Are you bothered that the US is becoming an unrestrainable, unilateral superpower?

  A: Well, I think over the last year, we've all gone through lots of painful lessons. I'm talking about since the war in Iraq. I think there has been lessons for the US and there has been lessons for the UN and other member states and I think in the end everybody is concluding that it is best to work together with our allies and through the UN to deal with some of these issues. And I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time.

Of course you don't want to see 'another Iraq-type operation' for a long time. The US and the coalition actually solved problems for 25 million people that 17 UNSC resolutions were unable to do. Further, the oil-for-food scam was uncovered, and perhaps Kofi is worried that if free nations overthrow other dictators, we may uncover more scandalous activities. A global threat was taken down, and his goal of obtaining WMD was ended. His torture chambers were closed and Iraqi people are now free to work, speak, protest, and soon they will vote. Here's the next question, following up on the previous one.

• Q: Done without UN approval - or without clearer UN approval?

  A: Without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.

Again, this man believes that his pseudo-world governme6nt reigns supreme over the United States and our Constitution. He is wrong. We do not need his approval, nor do we need the approval from ANY member of the international community, especially communist dictators or those countries who we have protected and defended for 90 years.

• Q: I wanted to ask you that - do you think that the resolution that was passed on Iraq before the war did actually give legal authority to do what was done?

  A: Well, I'm one of those who believe that there should have been a second resolution because the Security Council indicated that if Iraq did not comply there will be consequences. But then it was up to the Security Council to approve or determine what those consequences should be.

Excuse me? UNSC resolution was the 17 resolution passed against Iraq since the end of the 1991 Gulf War. Saddam Hussein violated each and every one of them. Further, as few recall, the "end" of the first Gulf War was a provisional cease-fire, which operated on the consent of Saddam to submit to the will of the world via UN sanctions. Anybody who claims the current Iraq war was anything but a continuation of the 1991 effort does not understand the history. Not that the UN resolutions have any real significance in my mind, but for those who do, it's clear that this war effort was completely legal and justified.

• Q: The US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has said that what's going on in Sudan is genocide, do you agree with him?

  A:...I've talked about the atrocious and systematic and grave... gross violations of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law...

  So all that will have to be looked at for one to make a determination and I think the [Security] Council is prepared... is discussing the issue of the setting up a commission.

The annihilation of Sudanese people qualifies for a UN commission, possibly. Perhaps after 15 years go by, the UN might get around to helping the Sudanese people, after the US wages another illegal and unjustified war that is...