(2004-02-19) — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan today unveiled his Iraq transition plan which he said is modeled on the “highly effective, internationally renowned United Nations structure.”
Under the Annan plan, unelected career bureaucrats will gather in a room, speak mutually-unfamiliar languages and form little alliances to undercut each others’ provincial agendas. Ultimately, the only decisions made will be those which cannot be implemented.
“This is the success recipe that the U.N has employed to keep the world at peace for six decades,” said Mr. Annan. “We can only hope that the Iraqi people have the wisdom to adopt my proposal. If they don’t, I shall initiate a resolution calling on them to do so, and threatening more resolutions.”
President George Bush welcomed the U.N. plan saying that it would “add some international legitimacy to the illegitimate efforts of the Coalition and the interim Iraqi Governing Council.”
