Kofi Annan sends a mixed message on Bush and his "safer world"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=11&u=/nm/20040721/ts_nm/security_un_bush_dc

FIRST, Annan comments:

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The world is no safer than it was three years ago, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) said on Wednesday, countering President Bush (news - web sites)'s claims he had made the world a safer place.

"No, I cannot say the world is safer today than it was two, three years ago," the U.N. leader said. He was responding to a reporter who asked for comment on the Bush funding move and also whether Annan felt the world had become safer in the last two or three years.

THEN he says:

"America is a safer place. Four more years and America will be safer and the world will be more peaceful," he said on Tuesday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

"The world is a safer and better place as a result of (Iraqi leader) Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) not being in power," he told NBC Television in February.

SO...

Bush has not made the world a safer place, but give him four more years and he will make the world a safer place? The article also mentions that Annan "criticized a Bush administration decision to withhold $34 million from the U.N. Population Fund" so is he giving Bush a chance to "pay up" in exchange for his endorsement? Or is he saying that with four more years AMERICA will be "safe" and the WORLD will be "peaceful"....I've got to tell you, if I'm not "safe" it sure as hell is not going to make me feel "peaceful"...

:wtf:

[Sequoia]

1. Maybe he was saying if Kerry becomes the prez, then it will be safe

after four years.