"While many questions concerning Oil-for-Food remain unanswered, one conclusion has become abundantly clear: Kofi Annan should resign." --Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Norm, quit being such a dick. Could we please start being a little mature? You are looking more like good old Joe McCarthy every day. Except instead of phantom "communists," your whipping boy is the UN, or John Kerry, or those who oppose the war in Iraq. Here's a bright idea: maybe you should stop your cute publicity stunts and start doing some work for Minnesota. We just had our homeland security funding reduced, at a time when we've got a $700 million (or higher!) defecit at the state level. Start with that. Then, how about speaking out about the Bush administration's 80% cutback in salmon habitat protection funding? We Minnesotans love to fish, and if he's loosening restrictions on development in the Northwest, who's to say Minnesota isn't next? Plus, as you may or may not know (not being a true Minnesotan yourself), Minnesotans occasionally like to travel, and some of us might like to fish in Washington or Oregon someday. So would you quit being Bush's poodle for just 1 second and try to get something accomplished?
But if you really need some metaporical "witches" to burn, to keep your name in the news, how about investigating the Halliburton contracts in Iraq? You know, they are implicated in the oil-for-food scandal, as well. Or--why not investigate when the Bush administration knew about the abuse at Abu Ghraib?
Oh, and Norm: The day I support your call for Annan to resign is the day you call on Donald Rumsfeld to resign too, for how badly he fucked up in Iraq. Just to make things fair. Rice, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Perle, and probably some others, can go, too. After all, to paraphrase you,
"The massive scope of this debacle demands nothing less. If this...had occurred in any legitimate organization around the world, its CEO would have been ousted long ago, in disgrace."
Dammit, Minnesota, how can we stand 4 more years of this? (Norm and Bush.) Why do you keep electing hypocrites? Aww, screw it. I'm out.
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