1999 to 2001 : (CLINTON ADMIN : HOLBROOKE IS UN ENVOY -- see KOFI ANNAN, IRAQ OIL FOR FOOD SCANDAL ) Richard Holbrooke... was U.N. envoy from 1999 to 2001 in the Democratic administration of ...President Bill Clinton. ------- "Bolton Faces Fight Over U.N. Envoy Post -Holbrooke," Reuters, Mon Mar 21, 2005Pretty good return on the money depending how the cash was divied up- give the UN $1 billion and receive all the accolades as a philanthropist, while your buddies and special interests quietly make off with $60 billion.2004 late or early JANUARY 2005 : (NY : GAGGLE OF WINDBAGS CONVENE AT RICHARD HOLBROOKE'S REQUEST - PLAN TO SAVE KOFI ANNAN'S ARSE...--- See IRAQ OIL FOR FOOD SCANDAL, NORM COLEMAN OP ED, GEORGE SOROS, TED TURNER, JOHN KERRY, John Ruggie, Leslie Gelb, CFR, Tim Wirth, Kathy Bushkin, UN Foundation ) When the stink threatens to make even bureaucrats gag, somebody has to mop up some of the mess. When a gaggle of special pleaders met the other night in New York to talk about the puddle in the parlor at the United Nations, it wasn't clear whether they were interested in shaping up the U.N. or merely saving the job of Kofi Annan, the bureaucrats' favorite bureaucrat. .......What frightened the coterie to action then, and no doubt Mr. Annan yesterday, is the growing sentiment in Congress to do something about corruption at the U.N., or else. .......
There was considerable wetting of well-tailored pants at the U.N. last month with the publication of Mr. Coleman's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he asked the pointed question obvious to everyone: "If this widespread corruption had occurred in any legitimate organization around the world, its CEO would have been ousted long ago. Why is the U.N. different?"
Why, indeed. Mr. Coleman, a moderate Republican in only his second year in the Senate, is not through yet. He is the chairman of the Senate's permanent investigating subcommittee and intends to hotly pursue the scam artists who stole much of the $60 billion — that's "billion" with a "b" — in oil profits meant for food and medicines to be waved through the U.N. sanctions. ...Mr. Annan reassured the U.N. Security Council that Mr. Volcker's conclusions "will be made available to the public in a form that will take into account the rights of staff members and, where necessary, respect any undertakings as to confidentiality that may have been granted by the inquiry."
Translation to plainspeak: "The fix is in. If you don't like the stink, get a bigger clothespin." (Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
--------- "Kofi gets a cuddle from his friends," Wesley Pruden, Washington Times, 1/04/05
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To: backhoe
We can clearly conclude, from this passage in the article, that Ted Turner for some reason thinks he controls the UN and hence the world. (Chuckle)
Richard Holbrooke, who was Bill Clinton's ambassador to the U.N., called the save-Kofi meeting to order in his Manhattan apartment in early December, and the New York Times yesterday identified some of the other participants as John Ruggie, a former assistant secretary-general for strategic planning at the U.N., parked now as a professor at Harvard; Leslie Gelb, a former president of the Council on Foreign Relations; Tim Wirth, the former senator from Colorado and president of the United Nations Foundation, the most visible result of Ted Turner's celebrated gift of $1 billion to the U.N.; and Kathy Bushkin, an operative in unsuccessful Democratic presidential campaigns and now the executive director of Ted Turner's foundation.
More to the point, which of Ted's rivals leaked the info about this "secret meeting" to the press?
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