[Cicero]

I read something on this a few weeks back. Now here's another article explaining why Kofi Annan is so desperate to stop the US war against Iraq--because he has a huge financial stake in the status quo.

[Cicero]

Oops. The WSJ where this is posted has today's date, but I see the article is dated last fall (September 25, 2002). But I can't find it posted here in FR, and it still is extraordinarily relevant to what's going on today at the UN. It explains why Kofi is so desperate to block Bush from going ahead with the war.

[goodnesswins]

Oh, how special, while Saddam builds his golden palaces he has the UN feeding people.....

"Conceived in 1995 as a way to deliver humanitarian aid despite sanctions against Iraq, Oil-for-Food has matured into an unholy union between Saddam Hussein, with his command economy, and the U.N., with its big, buck-passing bureaucracy. By now, the two are effectively partners in what might just as well be called the Oil-for-U.N.-Jobs program. Even with its weapons inspectors barred from the country, the U.N. by now has 10 agencies employing 900 international staffers and 3,000 Iraqi nationals inside "Iraq to administer the program, plus another 120 or so in New York. Combining Iraq's oil exports and aid imports, they oversee a flow of funds averaging about $15 billion a year, more than five times the U.N.'s core annual budget. Even assuming the utmost integrity by the U.N. staff, it is worth asking whether Mr. Annan and his entourage might by now have a stake in the status quo. In which case, listening to Mr. Annan's views on Iraq makes about as much sense as once upon a time heeding Arthur Andersen's pronouncements on Enron."

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sobering.

We'll have to wait until this is reported on ABCNNBCBS though, right.

Maybe after that front-page story about this in the NY Times get printed.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

So the U.N. plan allocates various percentages of the revenues for different parts of the program...

Translation: Kofi's Kash Kow

[TexKat]

Claudia Rosett tell it like it T I S.

GWB LET'S ROLL!!!

[TexKat]

pING

And its said that we are after the oil. Yeah right!!!

[LaGrone]

Excellent Read. The UN is so corrupt; their greed and incompetence may have them on their last leg before long. Sure hope so. Kofi may have to change his lifestyle. He may not command the bucks in the future that he does at the UN.

[Brett66]

The UN works hand-in-hand with Saddam to propagate this lie. The UN gives voice to terrorist nations that should have none. The UN supports and emboldens terrorist states that have sworn to destroy us. They are a terrorist-supporting organization, we are better than that, we have no place in such a corrupt psuedo-terrorist organization. Kofi, Chirac and cohorts need to be jailed and their bank accounts confiscated!

[DoughtyOne]

I love when these things come to light. All the soft shoe dancing at the United Nations suddenly make sense doesn't it.

[kcvl]

The U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program -- and consequences for Iraq's civilian population


"Originally, the [U.N.] Security Council authorised Iraq to sell $1.32 billion-worth of oil every six months to cover humanitarian imports. Large as the sum sounds, it provided little more than a dollar a month to cover food and medicine for each Iraqi, not to mention repairs to infrastructure. ...

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:GWPfabzW8HMC:www.scn.org/ccpi/oilforfood.html+U.N.%27s+Oil-for-Food+Program&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Diddle E. Squat]

bump

[swheats]

The best Annan can do for those who are suffering in refugee camps. While they're living large on Security Council.

[cake_crumb]

Posted a little late, but a good article. And VERY true. We all knew the endless inspection charade is about job security. Shame no one in the mainstream media mentions it.

[GrandMoM]

BUMP

[kcvl]

No Blood for Oil?
Lately, the Left-Winged Liberals have been protesting against the Republican lead U.S. Government for its determination to rid the world of Tyrant Saddam Hussein and his regime. They profanely state such phrases as “Bush is the real terrorist” and “not in our name” while projecting the lie that President George W. Bush is anxious to kill “innocent civilians” in order to defeat Saddam and control Iraq’s oil supply.

Unfortunately, their protests are the prime example as to the fact that nation’s public academic institutions do not teach facts but indoctrinate propaganda in the minds of our children. There is no difference between what teachers do in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Harvard University and what Fidel Castro does in Cuba or what China does to its citizens. As a matter of fact, Fidel could literally apply to be Superintendent of schools in just about any U.S. public school district and be a finalist in their selection process. Left-Winged Liberals sound and act as if they were taught in the “Madrasas” of the Middle East.

Those who teach history and/or government should have been telling these “unproven identities” that before they go out and make fools of themselves (as well as waste money and time) that there are governments who currently benefit from the oil that Saddam’s innocent Iraqi civilian blood-shedding” dictatorship produces for them. Impoverished, malnourished, innocent Iraqi civilians are summarily forced into becoming oil production slaves so that the following nations have oil contracts fulfilled:

France, Germany, Russia, Vietnam
Malaysia, China, India, Italy, Algeria

They all have written contracts with the Saddam’s Iraqi regime to develop and expand Iraq's oil industry. If Iraq were not challenged by the United States to disarm, how many innocent Iraqi civilians will have to shed their blood so that these countries can continue their oil consumption? How many Iraqi civilians will have to be routinely threatened, beaten, dismembered, and murdered so that countries like France and Germany can enjoy fueling their Mercedes Benzes and locally transporting Champagne from farms to restaurants. During the most recent protest, no Left-Winged Liberal person or group gives a damn! Only the United States government led by President Bush and conservatives in the United States are asking that question. Only the United States government led by President Bush and conservatives in the United States want that type of slavery to end NOW!!

France for example doesn’t mind oil for blood. The French company Total Fina Elf has negotiated contract rights to develop two very large oil fields in Iraq. The larger of the two is called Majnoon Field. It is located near the Iranian border. Majnoon Field is estimated to have reserves of about 30 billion barrels of oil. Now who do you think the employees will be? My guess is that they will not be the high government guaranteed living-wage Iraqi employees who are union members and have excellent vacation packages, retirement pensions, non-discrimination policies in the workplace such as those that protect homosexuals, women, and minorities her in the so-called evil United States. There will be no workplace safety regulations protecting Iraqi workers, no family medical leave acts (paid or unpaid), no Iraqi’s with Disabilities Act, no endangered species act nor any other Left-Winged Liberal imposition that impugns the success of private businesses managed by free people. Yet France will extract every drop of oil that Majnoon Field while French President Jacque Chirac will turn deaf, dumb and blind to the plight of the Iraqi oil employees.

After the Iran/Iraq war and before the U.S. led Gulf War, Iraq ran up an $8 billion debt with Russia to rebuild from 8 years of fighting. Although Iraq has the second largest known oil reserves in the world (about 112 billion barrels – second only to Saudi Arabia with 238 billion barrels) Iraq like most countries with oil reserves has little expertise and industry to extract the oil. So Russia negotiated with Saddam a $40 billion agreement to help extract the oil. Furthermore, Russian oil dealers would be able exclusive brokers of any oil extracted and sell to any interested party and any negotiated price. Now given that context, that $8 billion debt seem was basically a “Mob” loan. Russia stands to make hundreds of billions of dollars from the extraction and sell of Iraqi oil – despite the shedding of Iraqi blood!

Even the United Nations is privately thankful for the shedding of innocent Iraqi blood for Iraqi oil. Under the guise of the U.N.’s “Oil For Food” program, the U.N. has collected more than $1.2 billion each year in fees by administering the transfer of at least $15 billion a year. These fees alone pay the salaries of more than 4,000 U.N. employees. This same “Oil For Food” program allows the U.N. to collect about a billion or so dollars each year by managing more than $12 billion in escrowed Iraqi funds. So the U.N. is not particularly interested in changing the current state of affairs that drip with innocent Iraqi civilian blood.

If that nasty mouthed Communist Nelson Mandela cared about the people of Iraq, he would not make such stupid statements as he did when he recently said that President is causing these problems with the United Nations because it is being presided over by a black man. In case he forgot, it was this “White Man’s” White father who helped to get his black ass out of jail. How so easy we forget! To date Nelson Mandela and former President Jimmy Carter about why the income from the sale of oil and the food & medicine from the “Oil For Food Program” never seems to get to the people of Iraq. Nelson, Jimmy, and their cohorts could care less. Their only focus seems to be the constant challenging of Republicans and Conservatives.

What they realize is that all of these countries with these “blood-money” agreements with Saddam and the U.N.’s blood-money fees as Iraq’s business manager will all be null and void if the United States destroys this dictatorship. Once again a Republican controlled U.S. government will lead an emancipation crusade – this time in the heart of the Middle East. The Left-Winged Liberals hate that because individual freedom is not consistent with their ideals.

At risk of sounding like a broken record, our Republican leadership doesn’t seem willing to develop the requisite courage to beat the Democrats and Left-Winged Liberals, in this country, with these facts. Furthermore conservatives at-large seem to mobilize only when the pro-abortionists are in town. We Republicans and conservatives as a whole must get this information out to any person who is listening. We must expose the “cud’ of hypocrisy constantly chewed and regurgitated by these Democrats and Left-Winged Liberals that is believed by too many unsuspecting minds. Let’s then agree…

No Iraqi Blood For Iraqi Oil!!

M.D. Currington
Black Republican
January 31, 2003

http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:On_fT2-4euIC:mdcurrington.tripod.com/mdc/no_blood_for_oil.html+U.N.%27s+Oil-for-Food+Program&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[kcvl]

If this liar and crook had anything to do with you KNOW there is a huge scandal involved somewhere!



United States Mission to Jordan


Text:
Richardson Senate Testimony on UN
Oil-for-Food Program
(Oil prices will not be affected, says Energy Secretary)

March 17, 1999

Washington -- The U.N.'s oil-for-food program "is a key component of the Administration's Iraq strategy and is, therefore, key to our national security," Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson said March 17.

Secretary Richardson testified at a joint hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Administration proposals to expand the U.N. Oil-for-Food program for Iraq. Also testifying at the hearing was Thomas Pickering, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.

Richardson said the Oil-for-Food program "helps us in three ways":






http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:Do7OPv_jmiYC:www.usembassy-amman.org.jo/3RichOil.html+U.N.%27s+Oil-for-Food+Program&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[Psycho_Bunny]

Holy-Crap-Bump to myself.

[Dick Bachert]

OH, BE STILL MY HEART!

[nutmeg]

As Howlin said, This one is a Mandatory Read ping! Note that this article is dated Wednesday, September 25, 2002 not March 10, 2003 as posted.

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ping list.

[nutmeg]

FYI