KOFI ANNAN, THE TYRANTS' FRIEND

The NY Post looks at another impediment to success in Iraq...Kofi Annan. I hope this 2nd term under Bush will see Annan's departure. He is corrupt and continually hampers progress in the Middle East.//JW sends.

Last week, Annan wrote President Bush and Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Iyad Allawi, warning that an assault on Fallujah would alienate Iraqis and make it difficult to carry out the coming elections.
Annan can't possibly be that naive.
He's not; he simply opposes U.S. power. He opposed Operation Iraqi Freedom, calling the war in Iraq "illegal." And he opposes Phantom Fury.
But Fallujah's terrorists are the key impediment to elections. Their bombings and beheadings are meant to sow fear, so Iraqis won't go to the polling booths.
Allawi, Bush and Blair understand that removing them and curbing their attacks will make the nation safer for elections.
But not Annan. "The threat or actual use of force not only risks deepening the sense of alienation . . . but would also reinforce perceptions . . . of a continued military occupation," he wrote.