UN Staff To Vote On No-Confidence Motion Against Koffi Annan

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This is huge, and completely unexpected. After over $21 billion in swindled oil-for-food money, blockades to virtually every investigation of the UN, continued crimes against humanity in places like Sudan (mind you, Annan was in charge of the UN Peacekeepers during the Rwandan genocide, when many UN peacekeepers were in Rwanda but did nothing to stop the slaughter), nearly complete incompetance in the higher levels of the UN, and obvious corruption - to the extent that the US is removed from the UN Commission on Human Rights, while Libya was given the leadership of the Commission.

Annan should be thrown out of the UN (preferably out of a fairly high window of the building, many would argue. The technical term for this is “defenestration”, by the way. Here is a great alternative definition for defenistrate: "5; The act of completely removing Micro$oft Windows from a PC in favor of a better OS (typically Linux)." It's actually on the dictionary.com page as a definition, right after some other funny variations involving the 'windows' on computers). However, I never actually expected that there would be a vote against him, and I thought he would stay Secretary General until he either dies, is no longer able to move under his own power, or is checked into a lunatic asylum and never released from the straightjacket.

I wonder how the vote will turn out. Annan will probably stay, but that assumption is based only on the fact that the vote is completely unexpected.