posted December 04, 2006 11:07 AM            

Kofi Annan is also the UN official who oversaw the Oil for Food Scandal which included bribery of UN officials and others by Saddam, the skimming of billions of the oil for food money into UN coffers and the failure to account for about 2.5 BILLION which is still missing. The Oil for Food scandal is the biggest financial scandal in the history of the planet, bar none.

For overseeing the slaughter/genocide of Rwandan citizens as head of UN Peacekeeping forces, Commander Corruption, aka, Bill Clinton decided to support Kofi Annan for Secretary General of the United Nations.

Kofi Annan's Retirement: Double Dipping From U.N.?
Stewart Stogel
Monday, Dec. 4, 2006

UNITED NATIONS -- United Nations sources confirm with NewsMax that retiring Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to "petition" the organization's pension fund for the largest retirement benefit package in the 60-year history of the U.N.

Annan is reportedly seeking yearly payments in excess of $250,000 for life and intends to file a claim for an additional $1 million for back payments related to earlier duties at the U.N. when he served as assistant secretary-general and, later, as under secretary-general. The latest $1 million request is in addition to the $1 million lump sum Annan already received on that same pension.

The Annan payout is the largest on record at the United Nations.

For perspective, past U.S. presidents receive a pension totaling roughly $200,000 per year.

The U.S. mission to the United Nations had no immediate comment on Annan's proposed payout.

Unlike his secretary-general predecessors, Annan served more than four decades as a U.N. employee and rose to become the first staffer to be elected as U.N. chief. Previous secretaries-general received a lifetime annual pension of $100,000.

But the General Assembly recently and quietly passed legislation "enhancing" Annan's retirement benefits. Some U.N. insiders speculate that the "enhancement" was a so-called "parting gift" for Annan after a decade as leader.

While not illegal, many U.N. staffers expressed anger at Annan's behind-the-scenes move to sweeten his golden parachute, saying it smacks of "double dipping" from the U.N. funds.

"I must say, I really resent it," exclaimed one veteran U.N. employee who requested confidentiality.

In fact, a brief, informal survey of a dozen U.N. staffers showed no support for Annan's claims to the pension fund.

Ironically, all of the rules allowing such "double dipping" breezed through the General Assembly and apparently were not blocked by either the U.S., UK or Japanese missions.

The U.S. and Japan together finance more than 45 percent of the U.N.'s annual operating budget.

The Annan golden parachute comes as the organization struggles with a multi-billion-dollar budget deficit and attempts to raise funds for a massive renovation of its deteriorating New York City headquarters.

posted December 04, 2006 03:06 PM            

If that's your point, then we are in agreement.

John Bolton has performed his job magnificently and deserved an up or down vote of the full Senate...which would have confirmed him.