Hidden Nook

President Bush has refused to say whether Annan should resign, but neither used the opportunities to back him. Bush demanded instead that "a full and fair and open accounting" of the oil-for-food program in order for the U.S. to validate spending taxpayer money towards supporting the United Nations (of which 25% of their budget comes from).

Despite the demand by congress (specifically U.S. Senator Coleman, a republican from Minnesota) their has been little outrage over the incident which in itself is outrageous. If the United Nations keeps failing to maintain the standard set before them it will become nothing less than an international bureaucratic organization with lots of ideals but no power (more like a large discussion board of possibilities instead of responsibility).

The United nations has failed to uphold it's standard in Sudan when genocide (at least the extermination of one ethnic/religious group by another) when it refused to recognize it as the fact. They failed again during the Ukraine elections when they refused to recognize the fraud (even when Canada and Europe did). If the United Nations does not want to stick out it's head and accomplish the job it was suppose to, it will become nothing more than a bunch of United Numbskulls. Selah!