Wednesday - December 13, 2006

Koffing Anus Departs

Koffing Anus has now officially gotten on my last nerve. First, he decides to come here to Missouri to deliver his last parting shot at the United States. Second, he does so at the Truman Presidential Library and invokes the memory of the man who coined the phrase ”the buck stops here.” Third, he lashes out at the US after presiding over the most corrupt administration ever at the United Nations.

Enough is enough. Send this asshat back to the third-world crap-hole he came from and never let him near the US or the UN again. I still fail to see what we stand to gain by remaining a member of this despicable organization which hires hypocritical jerks like Big Anus to bash the US while taking untold millions under the table from Saddam Hussein.

And to top it all off, Democrats in Congress refuse to send to the United Nations a man who proved he was capable of standing up to the corrupt, bigoted idiots from every corner of the planet. Democrats owe an apology to John Bolton and Koffing Anus owes an apology to the entire human race ... especially the US.

Now keep this mealy-mouthed bastard out of my state. I smell the fumes of sulfur since he was here spouting his drivel. The devil was here and we don’t want him back. Adios, Kofi! Now get the hell out of my country and stay out.

_{Bob Englehart - The Hartford Courant (CT)}

Annan Chides U.S. In Farewell Speech
_{INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (CNN) - 7:32 p.m. EST, December 11, 2006}

Kofi Annan had some strong words Monday for the United States in his farewell speech as secretary-general of the United Nations. Throughout the address, given at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Annan invoked America’s 33rd president to tell the United States, and implicitly its 43rd president, George W. Bush, how he thought they ought to behave.

“As [Harry] Truman said, ‘We must, once and for all, prove by our acts conclusively that right has might.’ That’s why this country has historically been in the vanguard of the global human rights movement,” Annan said. (Watch Annan’s relationship with the U.S. turn from friendly to frosty) Video

“But that lead can only be maintained if America remains true to its principles, including in the struggle against terrorism. When it appears to abandon its own ideas and objectives, its friends abroad are naturally troubled and confused.” Annan’s successor, South Korean Ban Ki-Moon, will take office on January 1.

Annan on Monday admonished the United States to use its global supremacy judiciously, saying, “The U.S. has given the world an example of a democracy in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint. Its current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level.

“As Harry Truman said, ‘We all have to recognize, no matter how great our strength, that we must deny ourselves the license to do always as we please.’ States need to play by the rules toward each other as well as toward their own citizens.

“When power, especially military force, is used, the world will consider it legitimate only when convinced that it is being used for the right purpose, for broadly shared aims, in accordance with broadly accepted norms.

“No community anywhere suffers from too much rule of law; many do suffer from too little and the international community is among them,” he added. “This we must change.”

During his 10 years as U.N. secretary-general, Annan has had his differences with the United States, which originally backed his candidacy. There were quarrels over finances with then-Sen. Jesse Helms, R-North Carolina, during the 1990s.

But his relationship with Washington became downright frosty during the Bush years as the Republican Party’s more conservative wing took power. Much of the strain has been due to the situation in Iraq. Annan strongly opposed the 2003 invasion by the U.S.-led coalition. He has called it an illegal war.

- Full text of the speech (PDF) here ...

- More on the story from CNN...

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