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...hear We Are the World and Do They Know It's Christmas? Sure, Africa needs help. But it does not have to be presented in such a condescending manner. Temi Babalola Toronto Annan Under Fire Your story on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the oil-for-food scandal [Dec. 13] conceded that neither Annan nor his son has been found guilty of anything improper or illegal. You noted that Annan is defending himself against a "small but determined band of congressional foes" who have launched five separate congressional investigations. But why focus on problems at the U.N. instead...
Your story on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the oil-for-food scandal [Dec. 13] conceded that neither Annan nor his son has been found guilty of anything improper or illegal. You noted that Annan is defending himself against a "small but determined band of congressional foes" that has grown from a "fringe obsession among conservative ideologues to the subject of five separate congressional investigations." But why focus on problems at the U.N. instead of the real scandal of the day: lying by the U.S. President to take...
Annan's problems are not the result of a vendetta by conservatives in the U.S. government. Either Annan wasn't minding the store during the oil-for-food thievery or he was part of the scandal. Since the U.S. pays a large share of the U.N.'s expenses, it is not heavy-handed of us to demand to know how some people received preferential deals to buy Iraqi oil below market price and then reap huge profits. The U.N. has been an anti-American club for years. One of the many reasons its credibility is questioned is the failure...
...Republican senator Norm Coleman thinks Annan should resign his post simply because the alleged oil-for-food scandal happened on his watch? What, then, does Coleman think George W. Bush should do? What about the "catastrophic success" of the war in Iraq and the biggest federal deficit in history? Perhaps Coleman can suggest the appropriate punishment for those things...
BASEBALL The steroid scandal widened and moved inexorably closer to Barry Bonds. Fans wonder: Did the slugger really think his trainer was just giving him flaxseed...