Kofi Annan inept? Hmmm.

Annan's most recent problems began when he insisted the US and UK should not invade Iraq without UN support - which they subsequently fialed to garner and invaded anyway.

He also raised the ire of the Bush administration and it's close allies when he suggested the invasion of Iraq was illegal. The fact that the US has started to treat the UN as either a tool for pursuing it's own agenda abroad or as an irritant when the UN won't be it's patsy is at the current root of Annan's problems. By portraying him as an ineffective leader, inept and incompetent, the US is trying to weaken the UN itself which the neocon administration would probably like to see sidelined or even disbanded altogether.