Annan Unmitigated Gall

If there were ever any doubts in your mind as to the arrogance, self denial and just plain chutzpa of the Kofi Annan and the United nations, this should dispel them.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who earlier angered the United States and Britain by calling the Iraq war 'illegal,' has upset both nations again -- this time accusing them of allowing Saddam Hussein to enrich himself selling oil outside the U.N.-run oil-for-food program.

Mr. Annan set off the latest dispute on Thursday by asserting that Saddam made more money smuggling oil to Jordan and Turkey -- under the noses of the United States and Britain -- than he skimmed from the 1996-2003 U.N.-run oil-for-food program.

A bloated and self serving bureaucracy, the UN is little more than a multinational conglomeration of diplomacy clerks who suck up money and spin their collective wheels. An organization full of grandiose delusions of self importance that is only truly effective at one thing, self perpetuation. The ultimate source of rhetorical essay and inconsequential action, the UN is a multibillion dollar testament to lofty ideals without substance. Very much like communism in that it works perfectly in theory but becomes totally dysfuntional in practice.