Last June UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said of the media coverage of the
so-called Oil for Food Scandal, "It's a bit like lynching, actually."
By December the vigilantes were lining up, swinging their ropes. The
neoconservative and paleoconservative assault on him and the UN has
been like a slightly slower version of the Swift Boat veterans'
campaign against Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry--right down
to the halfhearted and belated disavowals by George W. Bush.

Listening to the cable pundits, you would never suspect that there is no proof
at this point that Annan, or indeed anyone else at the UN, did anything wrong...
-- The Nation Magazine, 2005

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