Posted on 11/23/2004 5:57:52 AM PST by OESY
Last week certainly was instructive about the epic... United Nations Oil for Food program.
First came Monday's hearings in Norm Coleman's Senate Subcommittee on Investigations where we learned that Saddam Hussein gamed the program for twice as much unmonitored revenue as previously thought -- $21.3 billion, up from $10 billion. Also fascinating was chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer's testimony that he believes, based on what high-level Iraqi sources have told him, that U.N. Oil for Food director Benon Sevan did in fact profit from Iraqi oil vouchers. Mr. Sevan continues to deny the allegation.
Then on Wednesday Henry Hyde's House International Relations Committee held hearings revealing how some of the money financed terrorism....
Saddam also gave oil vouchers to Abu Abbas, the man responsible for the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro....
Perhaps the biggest news of all is that investigators are finally starting to crack the secrets held by the French bank BNP Paribas, which administered Oil for Food's official accounts and may prove to be the Rosetta stone for deciphering program-related wrongdoing....
Finally, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who's heading up the U.N.'s own official Oil for Food probe, has now promised an interim report by January. Sources familiar with his investigation tell us he's been having trouble getting cooperation from Russia, which was by far Saddam's largest business partner under Oil for Food, and has appealed as high as Russian President Vladimir Putin's office for assistance....
Some insiders are worried that a full investigation might reduce U.N. cooperation in Iraq, as if that help has been vital so far. The real issue, after all, isn't the possibility of small-time greed by U.N. officials but the viability of the whole organization given the vulnerability of its member states to corruption and blackmail....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
This was supposed to come out last June. I suspect Kofi is covering his Annas.
France and Russia no longer merit a seat at the Security Counsel.
John Kerry is tight with the UN and foreign leaders... maybe he can make some logic out of this.
Who wants to bet that Kofi somehow goes "missing" soon, meaning he has fled to some nutjob third world country? After he can no longer pay off the thug dictator who runs the country, his body will eventually wash up on shore somewhere.
We need some system of cooperation with other nations, but I don't think the UN is salvageable at this point. It does far more harm than good.
Not to speak of the widespread corruption of an organization that is run by tyrant nations, the main purpose of the UN is to spread moral corruption and death around the world. Its condom program has widely increased the spread of AIDS in Africa. It has helped China impose forced abortions on its citizens. It has sterilized women against their will and without their knowledge. It has promoted abortion with a mixture of foreign aid and blackmail. Its agents run sex for food rings wherever they operate.
When an organization is that corrupt, it's usually better to dissolve it and begin again than to try to fix it.
I wonder how long it will be before they find that some of the OfF money bought plane tickets for Mohammed Atta and the other sons of pigs involved in 9/11.
Oops. right. No connection.
American Policy Center on-line Declaration of Independence from the U.N.
Neal Boortz has the right idea- kick them off US soil, plop them down in Haiti, and tell them, "when you get this straightened out, give us a call..."
Moreover:
--Sex abuse charges rock UN in Congo-
-- Interesting this is being posted today. Talk show host Dennis Prager had the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Doree Gold, on his show today. Mr. Gold has just written a book about the UN called the Tower of Babble(i think this was the title). Some of the things he was saying about the UN were unbelievable.
--TV campaign urging: Kick U.N. out of U.S.-
"I say we just give the entire country of Haiti to the UN."--or move them to Zimbabwe or another country in Africa. Let them see what the really do for the world.
--UN knew of Saddam's oil-for-food thefts: BBC-
The sooner we resign from this corrupt organization and kick them off our soil, the better.
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Just when you think you heard it all...wait till you hear about the UN and SUDAN.
If Saddam Hussein manages to reveal the corruption of the UN through his Oil-For-Food scam, he will have performed a great service to the world.
Still, not enough on balance,... so fry him.
What kind of corrupt loons are they anyway? First Kerry and the Communist connection, now the U.N. "Oild for Food" let's fund the terrorists program? And the DNC thinks the U.N. is the way to go?
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Thanks for posting this.
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WSJ: Oil for Terrorism -- The U.N.
scandal details get worse by the dayExcerpt:First came Monday's hearings in Norm Coleman's Senate Subcommittee on Investigations where we learned that Saddam Hussein gamed the program for twice as much unmonitored revenue as previously thought -- $21.3 billion, up from $10 billion. Also fascinating was chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer's testimony that he believes, based on what high-level Iraqi sources have told him, that U.N. Oil for Food director Benon Sevan did in fact profit from Iraqi oil vouchers. Mr. Sevan continues to deny the allegation.
Then on Wednesday Henry Hyde's House International Relations Committee held hearings revealing how some of the money financed terrorism....
Saddam also gave oil vouchers to Abu Abbas, the man responsible for the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro....
Perhaps the biggest news of all is that investigators are finally starting to crack the secrets held by the French bank BNP Paribas, which administered Oil for Food's official accounts and may prove to be the Rosetta stone for deciphering program-related wrongdoing....
Finally, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who's heading up the U.N.'s own official Oil for Food probe, has now promised an interim report by January .....
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