Thieving bellman to the Apocalypse...Kofi Annan...a person "...somewhere below Boss Tweed and above Jimmy Carter."

"For those who forgive and forget too quickly, Annan -- without the sanction of the Security Council -- took it upon himself to visit Baghdad in February 1998. There he met with Saddam Hussein and negotiated away the inspection regimen that Amb. Richard Butler, then chief UN arms inspector in Iraq, had fought to maintain. Annan excluded Butler and his team from meetings in which Annan negotiated a "memorandum of understanding" with Saddam's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, which placed unworkable restrictions on Butler's team and doomed the inspections to failure. (The whole "MOU" is reprinted beginning on page 141 of Butler's book, The Greatest Threat.)" -emphasis added-