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Cliff Kincaid- Contributor
Cliff Kincaid, serves as editor of the Accuracy
in Media (AIM)
Report. A veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff has
appeared on the Fox News programs Hannity & Colmes and
The O'Reilly Factor, where he debated O'Reilly on global
warming, the death penalty,
and the homosexual agenda. He was a guest co-host on CNN's Crossfire
(filling in for Pat Buchanan) in the 1980s, where he confronted
the then-Libyan Ambassador to the U.N. with evidence of Libyan
involvement in international terrorism. Through his America's
Survival, Inc., organization (www.usasurvival.org), he has been
an advocate on behalf of the families of victims of terrorism
and has published reports and held conferences critical of the
United Nations. His articles have appeared in the Washington
Post, Washington Times, Chronicles, Human Events, Insight, and
other publications. He served on the staff of Human Events for
several years and was an editorial writer and newsletter editor
for former National Security Council staffer Oliver North at
his Freedom Alliance educational foundation. He has written or
co-authored nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign
policy issues. Cliff is married and has three sons.[go to
Kincaid index]
 Hidden
Secrets Of The U.N.
Just how anti-American is Kofi Annan?...
[Cliff Kincaid] 12/21/04
Lee Feinstein
of the Council on Foreign Relations was on MSNBC assuring the
public that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has a good record
of supporting the U.S. Feinstein, a former Clinton administration
official, said the only exceptions have been a few comments
critical of U.S. policy in Iraq. But he indicated that now
that the White House has endorsed Annan and he has announced
that he wants to send U.N. personnel back into Iraq to help
with the elections, the U.S.-U.N. relationship is back on track.
In fact,
however, Annan’s anti-American record is a long one.
The facts show that Annan:
- Made
a deal with dictator Saddam Hussein, respecting Iraq’s “sovereignty” and
leading to the expulsion of weapons inspectors and Iraq's
re-emergence as an international security threat.
- Made a
deal with Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, giving him immunity
from prosecution in the Pan Am 103 terrorism case.
- Supports
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which was voted down by
the U.S. Senate.
- Supports
the global warming treaty, which would raise U.S. energy
prices while benefiting Communist China and the Third World.
- Supports
an International Criminal Court with the power to arrest
and imprison Americans.
- Supports
the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, even though it was signed
with a country that no longer exists and was violated by
the old Soviet Union and Russia.
- Supports
the Biological Weapons Convention, even though China and
Russia have violated it.
- Opposes
a national missile defense system for the U.S.
- Collaborated
with Hillary Clinton to promote abortion as an “international
right.”
- Smeared
the U.S. as a greedy nation in a Notre Dame speech claiming
Americans don’t spend enough on foreign aid.
- Supports
all “necessary revenues” for the U.N. (i.e. global
taxes).
- Lent his
support to the international campaign to abolish the death
penalty in the U.S. and other nations.
- Berated
the U.S. for not paying U.S. “dues” to the U.N.
when America had contributed billions of dollars to peacekeeping
operations that had not been reimbursed or credited to the
U.S.
- Promotes “global
debt relief,” a cover for transfers of more U.S. wealth
to deadbeat Socialist Third World dictatorships.
- As director
of U.N. peacekeeping, refused requests to authorize U.N.
peacekeepers in Rwanda to seize weapons and prevent genocide.
- Proceeded
with a U.N.-sponsored independence vote in East Timor that
led to a bloodbath.
- Covered
up the fact that U.N. soldiers were spreading AIDS around
the world.
In anticipation
of Annan’s visit to Washington, D.C., Nora Boustany of
the Washington Post wrote an article favorably highlighting
a new Annan-commissioned report on how to make the world body
more effective. This really means expanding the power of the
U.N. while restricting the U.S. under the cover of “reform.”
Boustany
conveniently omitted the fact that Yevgeny Primakov represented
Russia on the Annan panel that produced the report. Primakov,
the former Russian foreign minister, was always known for his
close ties to Saddam Hussein and was alleged by Seymour Hersh
in the April 5, 1999, issue of the New Yorker magazine to have
accepted an $800,000 payment from the Iraqi government.
Scott Ritter,
the former U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq who turned into a
critic of U.S. policy toward the Saddam Hussein regime, claims
that Primakov’s sister ran a Russian oil company that
bought oil from Iraq under the oil-for-food program and sold
it at full market value primarily to U.S. companies. Ritter
claims the Clinton administration turned a “blind eye” to
the deal because then-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
wanted Russian help in dealing with the Iraqi regime.
Ritter has
lost credibility, stemming from his flip-flop on Iraq policy
and personal moral scandals. But his charges about corruption
in the growing oil-for-food scandal cannot be dismissed out
of hand. It was under Albright as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
that Linda Shenwick, the budget analyst at the U.S. Mission,
was harassed and eventually fired because she was raising alarms
about waste, fraud and abuse in U.N. programs. The public interest
law firm Judicial Watch defended Shenwick, who had to sue the
State Department for damages for persecuting her. Curiously,
the Colin Powell State Department hired Clinton lawyer Gregory
Craig to defend itself against Shenwick. There was a settlement,
but Shenwick was not allowed to return to the U.S. Mission.
Did Albright
suspect that Shenwick would uncover the oil-for-food scandal
or the deals with Primakov? What U.S. companies were involved?
The U.N’s belated help in Iraq should not preclude answers.
The media should demand them. tRO
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2004 Accuracy in Media
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