On the very day that John Bolton, US Ambassador to the UN announced his resignation [no loss there!] UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has given his prognosis on Iraq:
"Life for ordinary Iraqis is now worse than under Saddam Hussein as the country descends into violence "much worse" than civil war, Kofi Annan has said.
The Secretary General of the United Nations gave his hardest-hitting assessment yet of the present situation as he prepared to leave office.
"If I was an average Iraqi, I would make the same comparison," he told the BBC.
"They had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets: they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back without a mother or father worrying 'Am I going to see my child again?'"
Read the report in The Independent of Annan's comments here.
Needless to say Messrs Bush, Blair and Howard will simply sail on regardless - with the huge ongoing cost in human lives and misery for both Iraqis and foreigners presently in Iraq - and proclaim that the overthrow of Saddam was a good thing.
"Life for ordinary Iraqis is now worse than under Saddam Hussein as the country descends into violence "much worse" than civil war, Kofi Annan has said.
The Secretary General of the United Nations gave his hardest-hitting assessment yet of the present situation as he prepared to leave office.
"If I was an average Iraqi, I would make the same comparison," he told the BBC.
"They had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets: they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back without a mother or father worrying 'Am I going to see my child again?'"
Read the report in The Independent of Annan's comments here.
Needless to say Messrs Bush, Blair and Howard will simply sail on regardless - with the huge ongoing cost in human lives and misery for both Iraqis and foreigners presently in Iraq - and proclaim that the overthrow of Saddam was a good thing.
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