Well, okay, he didn't EXACTLY say that. But you can read between the lines...
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'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.
