Kofi Annan's Farewell Speech

Right-wingers have their panties all twisted in a bunch over Kofi Annan's parting words.

FOX News is running this headline: 'Kofi Annan Criticizes Bush Administration in Farewell Speech'

Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan harshly criticized the Bush administration's foreign policy Monday in a farewell speech to a crowd in Independence, Mo.

In an address at the presidential library of Harry S. Truman, who was instrumental in the founding of the United Nations, Annan accused the U.S. administration of committing human rights abuses in the name of fighting terrorism, and of taking military action without broad international support.

The truth hurts, doesn't it Bush supporters? It would seem to me that if you think the UN is so corrupt and useless, you would be calling for a US boycott of the organization. Instead you rally around bull in a china shop Bolton like he's the second coming while he's been the prime example (along with Negroponte before him) of exactly what's wrong with the UN. You can't have it both ways: having the UN as a tool to do your bidding while criticizing it when it doesn't.

Annan's message is simple: respect the organization and all of the member states in an effort to make it work. The UN isn't your political playground in which you can just manipulate the world to suit your purposes while ignoring the rights of others.