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| Iraq Accuses Kofi of Helping U.S. Invasion |
| 2003-04-03 |
| Iraq's foreign minister attacked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday and said he had helped the U.S.-led invasion in which he said some 1,250 Iraqi civilians had been killed since March 20. "We have now more than 1,250 civilians killed and 5,000 injured all over the country since the beginning of the war," Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told Reuters in an interview in Baghdad's central Palestine hotel. Sabri said Annan had facilitated the invasion by U.S. and British troops two weeks ago. "The U.N. secretary-general has done nothing to stop the war, in fact the U.N. secretary-general has done something in the opposite direction," he said. "He has facilitated the invasion. He has withdrawn the UNIKOM people between Kuwait and Iraq so as to open the border for the enemy force to invade Iraq," said Sabri, referring to the withdrawal of U.N. observers between Iraq and Kuwait. Sabri said the United Nations had also interrupted Iraq's oil-for-food accord by pulling out international humanitarian staff on the eve of war. "All these moves are illegal and facilitated the aggression," he said. Kofi as a tool of U.S. agression? Who knew? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #8 *nods* Thanks Steve. Exactly what I thought: Payback in human lives in about 6 months. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-03 18:44:32 |
| #7 Poetic justice, eh, Kofi? |
| Posted by: Tadderly 2003-04-03 16:54:08 |
| #6 Ptah, The numbers of civilians Sammy has killed during his tenure is variably estimated at 300,000 to 2 million. Taking the low estimate over his 24 years, that's about 1,000 per month. The high estimate works out to about 7,000 per month. This doesn't count the Iraqi soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq war and GW I. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-04-03 13:13:00 |
| #5 "We have now more than 1,250 civilians killed and 5,000 injured all over the country since the beginning of the war," Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told Reuters in an interview in Baghdad's central Palestine hotel. Do tell. I wonder how many Saddam would have killed over the next, say, two months? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-03 12:18:34 |
| #4 Yeah, UNIKOM woulda stopped them.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Kofi, now their calling you a war mongering sleazebag. Sometimes a guy just can't win. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-03 12:09:57 |
| #3 Something just struck me: the "Fedayeen Saddam" are being considered "civilians" by the Iraqi government. That's why the civilian death count looks so bad. Sadsack really is as slick as ole willie!!!! About as useless, too. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-04-03 11:13:59 |
| #2 We will know the end is near when they blame Chirac. |
| Posted by: pj 2003-04-03 11:09:19 |
| #1 Get any spittle on ya, Kofi? |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-04-03 11:06:58 |