They're from the UN. They're here to help!

I missed ScamMaster Supreme, Kofi Annan, on Meet the Press; but I understand from others' comments that he was looking beaucoup shifty when Oil-for-Crooks came up. As well he might - Iraq oil-for-food kickbacks 'higher than suspected':

Kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein's regime on contracts signed under the United Nations' oil-for-food programme were far higher than the 10 per cent rake-off previously assumed to be the norm.

But being a UN bureaucrat isn't just caviar and trips to Switzerland to deposit your personal stash of loot, there are amazing amounts of fun to be had:

U.N. officials, including General Secretary Kofi Annan, are so afraid of a new book detailing stories of U.N. sex scandals and drug parties, they have threatened the authors with termination if the book ever gets published.

Already, the book, "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Matters" (Miramax Books) by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson -- two current and one former employee of the U.N.'s peacekeeping operations -- has provoked a storm of controversy inside the world body.

Now two of the authors could be out of job if U.N. censors have their way.
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The book is the personal memoirs of the trio chronicling their ten years together working in several U.N. peacekeeping operations, including operations in Cambodia, Somalia, Rwanda, Liberia, Haiti and the former Yugoslavia.

“Emergency Sex” is the first time such a book has been written from inside the U.N.'s peacekeeping operations and by two employees who are currently serving in the world body.

The book also may rank as one of the most sensational exposes of U.N. business -- including numerous, and supposedly true, stories of wild sex and drug parties involving U.N. officials.

Woohoo! Who knew the dull bureaucrats had it in 'em?

Meanwhile, the controversy over the book is reaching the highest levels at the U.N., and several ambassadors in the Security Council have requested copies of the "Emergency Sex” galleys to see what exactly the staffers are claiming.

I'll bet!

All of which reminds me of the Freeper comment of the day:

The only way I want to hear the words "Kofi Annan" is in a diner and followed by the phrase "English muffin please."