Just Like a Scooby-Doo Villain

Oh, what I wouldn't give to see an American UN Secretary-General - other than for the United States to withdraw from the UN altogether. Then maybe, just maybe, this sort of whiny anti-American petulance could be purged from that misbegotten "internationalist" body once and for all.

Former United Nations chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali is blaming the oil-for-food scandal on "right-wing politicians" in the United States, saying they are merely using it as a tool to damage the world body's reputation.

Reuters reports that Boutros-Ghali, who served as U.N. secretary-general from 1991 to 1996, also has said current chief Kofi Annan should stay right where he is.

Yeah, how dare the leaders of the only country on the face of the planet with the power and resources to keep that den of thugs and thieves from ignominious collapse and irrelevance object to the rampant corruption and moral turpitude that has done so much to bolster the UN's reputation. Why can't they just keep their mouths shut and their checkbook open?

Well, it turns out that Boutros Boutros-by Ghali doesn't have clean hands himself:

[T]he program's director, Benon Sevan, has been "accused of steering an Iraq oil allocation to a cousin of Boutros-Ghali," said Reuters. "The cousin, who owned a small trading company, earned $1.5 million from the transaction."

Nothing like a little self-interested ass-covering to make one "doth protest too much."

None of the apparent evidence seems to matter to Boutros-Ghali, however. He blamed conservative American politicians instead of the U.N., Iraqi and corporate bureaucrats who either administered or took part in the program.

"The American right has seized this scandal as a weapon against the United Nations. It's a scandal created ad hoc. It's not me asserting this, it's clear to everyone," he said, in quotes picked up by Italy's La Republica newspaper.

What's clear to everyone who isn't already as corrupt and morally vacant as BBG is that he's blustering in frustration at his betters who caught him with his hand in one helluva big cookie jar.

Reminds me of the end of every Scooby-Doo cartoon ever written, where the crook who impersonated the ghost, before he's taken away by the cops, always says, "And I'd have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for these meddling kids!"

In this case, the "meddling kids" are even bigger than BBG's cookie jar.