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Re: Republican sense of accountability

I find Randy’s recent post regarding Senator Norm Coleman’s call for Kofi Annan’s resignation just another example of how “Anybody But Bush” can infect all of our dialogues. Coleman has acted in a bipartisan fashion, writing a letter to Annan just a few weeks ago along with the Democratic co-chair asking for Annan to give congressional investigators access to files about the Oil-For-Food scandal. Is it possible to treat these separately? Can Randy honestly believe that his differences with Bush’s policy that millions of Americans disagree with are paralleled to Annan’s watching over a 21 billion dollar disaster that took food, medicine and hope away from Iraqis under Saddam’s brutal regime? That there appears to be evidence showing that financial kickbacks to France, Russia and Germany may have correlated to their opposition to the Iraq war? As far as I know, this is the first politician of any stripe who has called for Annan’s resignation. Hardly a representative sample. This is ridiculous. We don’t need for every discussion to deteriorate into partisan hypotheticals. The election is over. Respond to Gavin

Posted by Gavin Hesse at December 1, 2004 05:24 PM