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Everything about Annan's latest statement, is wrong. First, he invites Iran -- which is trying to take over Lebanon via Hezbollah -- into Lebanon to help with reconstruction:
MADRID (Reuters) - The international community should not isolate Iran, which has indicated it will cooperate in the reconstruction of Lebanon, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a Spanish newspaper.
"The international community should count on Iran, not isolate it," Annan said in an interview with El Pais in Qatar which was published on Tuesday.
Annan spoke to El Pais after a weekend visit to Tehran as part of a Middle Eastern tour to shore up the ceasefire that ended fighting between Israel and Iranian-backed Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas.
"The general perception is that Iran is acting on its own, giving money to Hizbollah. In my conversations in Tehran, I asked the Iranians to work with other countries in reconstruction. They accepted my request, which is a very helpful attitude," Annan said.
Even Annan admits that "the general perception is that Iran is ... giving money to Hizbollah."
Annan also has this howler:
"The Iranians assured me that they are not seeking nuclear weapons and their intentions are peaceful. Nonetheless, they have to find a way of reassuring the world and guaranteeing that these really are their intentions," Annan said.
Does Annan believe that such statements made by the Iranians are consistent with their repeated calls to wipe Israel off the face of the earth?
Here, he calls on Israel to stop preventing the resupply of Hezbollah (which just fired thousands of rockets into Israel), so as to create "trust:"
"Israel should withdraw, without needing to wait for the deployment of the 15,000 (international troops) to be complete. Also, mutual trust has to be created, by, for example, Israel lifting its blockade on Lebanon," Annan said.
What I want to know is, who does Annan think he is, inviting the enemy of Lebanon into Lebanon? Isn't that up to the Lebanese government?
It looks like Annan doesn't think he's just the Secretary-General of the U.N. organization -- he seems to think he's the President of the World.
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DON'T MISS ROGER L. SIMON'S GREAT POST on the debunking of Joe Wilson and the Valerie Plame affair:
...what interests me is how the Plame Affair fits into the whole framework. It may be opera bouffe, but it is far from unrelated to the way the press has conducted itself in recent years. Is it so different from Pallywood and the Mohammed Al Doura case, the Reuters photographs, the Jenin "massacre" and so forth - all lies swallowed whole by a gullible Western media? At first glance they would seem far apart, but in this small world one concept draws them all together - narrative. The truth is less important than the weltanshauung of the publication. But we knew that, didn't we?
Read the whole thing.
Olah Chadasha, of the Greetings from the French Hill weblog, has produced part two of the excellent video, "The Soldiers of the Israel-Hezbollah War":
