UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the world isn’t safer than it was a few years ago.
But he didn’t comment on whether America was more secure, which has become an issue in the US presidential campaign.
US President George W Bush has said repeatedly that invading Iraq made America safer. His Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry dismissed the claim.
Annan was asked at a news conference whether he would say the world was safer than it was two or three years ago, given the recent violence in many countries.
“My answer … is no,” the secretary-general replied. “I cannot say that the world is safer today than it was two or three years ago.”
The reporter, who is Mexican, did not mention Bush, Kerry or the American presidential contest, and Annan did not elaborate.
Bush said his re-election would ensure safety for Americans as well as for those in the rest of the world in the war against terrorism. World isn’t getting safer: Annan
Looks like only the amerikkan public is falling for the Bush lies on a safer world!
The US public has TV fed to them 24/7 and it just feeds more propoganda and rubbish about terrorism around the corner and you are no longer safe to even breath.
You can only blame the public so much, the media and Government are the main culprits for the false propoganda about the world being safer in bush's hands.
Ofcourse, Bush is going to claim that the world is safer. The so-called (indefinite) war on terror is, perhaps his only claim to fame in the four years he has been President. It doesn't really matter that no one in the world agrees with him, including his own Secretary of Homeland Security, who just the other day warned the Americans that the next attack is coming. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Yada yada yada.
I watch this amerikkan News few times and its all scare stories from Y2K bug to killer bees in the south, to terrorists on your doorsteps.