By Irwin Arieff
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The world is no safer than it was three years ago, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday, countering President Bush's claims he had made the world a safer place.

Annan, at a news conference, also criticized a Bush administration decision to withhold $34 million from the U.N. Population Fund, saying the agency was saving women's lives.

Annan's remarks could renew strains on ties between the United States and United Nations, which -- while devastated by Bush's inability to win U.N. backing for the U.S.-led war on Iraq -- had improved following U.N. help in setting up a new government in Baghdad in time for the U.S. occupation to end.

"No, I cannot say the world is safer today than it was two, three years ago," the U.N. leader said...

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You tell him, Kofi. The number of terrorist acts worldwide is UP since Bush took office, not down. But of course, he's not listening to anyone about that. He knows what he knows, and he's always right. Always right, always right . . . .

There's a great Mike Luckovich cartoon that someone sent me via e-mail, but I can't figure out how to import it here. Well, you'll have to use your imagination. It shows Bush floating in the water with other Titanic survivors, and he says, "I still believe hitting the iceberg was the right decision."