THE METTLE OF A UN SECRETARY-GENERAL

Stephen Lendman

Annan's tenure is a shameless and dismal record of failure: -- He never condemned or acted to end the devastating economic sanctions against the Iraqi people that killed up to 1.5 million defenseless men, women and children. -- He never used his high-profile job to denounce the US criminal war waged there since March, 2003, based on lies and now known to have likely killed another 655,000 or more of them. -- He failed to speak out forcefully against or do anything to prevent that war or the equally brutal and unjustifiable one waged against Afghanistan. -- He's been appallingly silent in the run-up to a potential Middle East apocalypse if the US and/or Israel go ahead with their plans to attack Iran and use nuclear weapons to do it. -- He never used his sworn power and influence to uphold the oath he took to work for peace and protest Israel's genocidal wars on Palestine and Lebanon against defenseless civilians there when the prestige of his office alone might have been enough to stop or at least mitigate them...

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