Corruption or incompetence at the UN?

Probably both--either way it is a deeply flawed insitution. See this piece -- Cause for replacement -- in The Washington Times. Excerpt:

In light of Kofi Annan's failure to stop U.N. corruption in the supposedly humanitarian oil-for-food program, how can the Bush administration even think of entrusting a future democratic Iraq to U.N. supervision? And how can Mr. Annan even want to stay on as U.N. secretary-general of this corrupted organization? Claudia Rossett's spectacular expose in the current Commentary Magazine headlines the scandal:

"The oil-for-food scam: What did Kofi Annan know, and when did he know it?"

As Miss Rossett writes:

"Annan's studied bewilderment is itself an indictment not only of his person but of the system he heads." ... "We are left to contemplate a U.N. system that has engendered a secretary-general either so dishonest that he should be dismissed or so incompetent that he is truly dangerous and should be dismissed."