Benny Avni of the New York Sun has yet another scoop on yet another scandal at the United Nations, an organization whose leader Kofi Annan can only be construed as a political foe of President Bush. Iraqis will go to the polls this week, and the upper echelon surrounding the fast—diminishing Secretary—General Annan is at best disinterested in helping. At worst, it is willing to sell out Iraqis, hoping to injure the American—led coalition and the hated Bush administration in the process. Either way, Turtle Bay's absence from the transformation of Iraq will be even more pronounced than in past elections. In a typical mix of sloppiness and malice, the one official who made the United Nations even a marginal player in Iraq, Carina Perelli, was fired last week. "I'm a casualty of the Iraq wars," the Uruguayan firecracker Ms. Perelli told me on Friday. She talked admiringly about Iraqis braving assassins on their way to the polls. Then she sneered at "petty palace...(Read Full Post)