Independence, Missouri - (Ass Mess): History tells us that the world is full of crooks, damned lying crooks and Secretary-Generals of the United Nations.
At the Truman Library and Museum yesterday time stood still and reality took a rain-check as outgoing UN boss Kofi Annan charmed his invited audience into yet another career-best rendition of amnesia about the $18 billion of Saddam's Oil-for-Fraud that has gone mysteriously missing under his personal stewardship of the UN Fund.
The silky-smooth and velvety-soft swansong performance mesmerised the conference hall into a fairy-tale voyage of worthy verbiage that, had she been alive today, would have sent Harry S Truman's wife Bess into an apoplexy of disgusted outrage.
For Bess - the US Democrats' illustrious grande dame par excellence, though long dead and gone - inspired whole generations of humbug-slaying women to stand up and be counted whenever and wherever the Illuminatis' highly plausible implants begged for understanding, tolerance and a sinecure pension after a lifetime's public service in the name of mediocrity.
"Somethin's rumblin' in the cemetary outside", one disgruntled audience member said later, pointing to Harry and Bess's gravestones in the courtyard garden.
"Sounds like they're sendin' in the cavalry to horsewhip that spineless upstart inside, he hehehehe".
