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Article: U.S. critics ratchet up attacks on U.N.'s Annan
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- December 12, 2004
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WASHINGTON As criticism of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan by
conservative American critics hit fever pitch this past week, a
former British ambassador to the world body summed up the view from
overseas. The United States has many traditions, some good and some
bad, David Hannay told the Financial Times. The worst of the bad is
the lynch mob. The best of the good is due process. We need more due
process and less lynch mob. Last week, President George W. Bushs
administration veered, at least for the moment, in the direction of
due process. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John C. Danforth
told reporters in New York on Thursday that the administration had
great confidence in Annan, ...