UN: It's Benon Sevan's Fault!
Fox's article about the UN's first report on it's Oil for Food fiasco is a good indicator of where the UN internal investigation under Paul Volcker will go:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146320,00.html
The UN will throw Sevan to the wolves in order to protect the rest of the criminals, which is just about everyone else in that organization. A lousy 1 million dollars in oil voucher that Sevan is alleged to have received is NOTHING, let's hear about how OFF money financed terrorists, or about how France and Germany sold every weapon they have (and including some WMD-producing equipment) to Saddam for OFF money. Let's hear about how OFF money bought UN Security Council votes against the US, positive press for Iraq, and financed HUGE off-shore accounts for UN, Iraqi, and associate French, German, Chinese, and Russian government officials.
In my opinion, there is no recovering from the Oil for Food scandal for the UN. I can't think of any more deceitful, under-handed, heartless, soul-less, reprehensible, arrogant, cynical, self-serving, disgusting, dangerous, evil, and nasty thing that could be done to the Iraqis, and the world in general. The UN as we know it is FINISHED.
US out of UN, UN out of US!
Adios MF,
Doug
posted by Doug @ 1:27 PM
7 Comments:
Can't think of anything that bad being done to the Iraqis, huh? How about invading their country under false pretenses and killing civilians? How about installing a puppet government to serve our own interests? Can you say control the oil?
Thank you for the brief visit to my blog. I tend to agree with you on many issues especially the part about the UN being scandal ridden in the oil for food program. Sevan will be a scapegoat but it goes all the way to the top to Kofi the crook. I firmly believe we should boot the UN out of this country and move them to maybe France. The UN has become ineffictive and weaker and weaker in the last several years. Look what happened when their offices were attacked in Bagdad. What did they do? Buckle down and fight?? NOOO, They tucked their tail and ran like chickens while we cleaned up their mess. UN OUT OF US and US OUT OF UN ought to be the new national chant.
Responding to the anonymous rube above: If you don't know the facts you ought to not write stuff like that and put your ignorance on display.
Rather than point out that each of your 'crimes against the Iraqis perpetrated by the US' is based upon incorrect and limited information, I'll just ask you this:
How do you suppose the 25 million free Iraqis feel about US intervention? Minus the 20k terrorists trying to re-establish secular and/or religious tyranny of course.
Learn the facts and lose the ignorant left/liberal-media/academia/anti-American party line. Expand your horizons to include information sources that are not hopelessly biased. Learn to look down the road for decades ahead, and then help your country keep you safe and able to spout nonsense like this. Accept that you owe your country at the very least your TRUE unbiased objectivity, if not your allegiance.
Unlike you, Presidents can't afford to be wrong - whether you like it or not, this is life and death for Americans. Thank goodness we have a President who understands that and not someone like you.
Congratulations! You managed to parrot Rush Limbaugh no less than 4 times in 1 sentence! Well done young man!
You instruct me to look at "unbiased" sources while you cite Fox news?
And don't even think about questioning my patriotism. I served four years in the US Army while Jimmy Carter was president, and I'll be the very first to admit he was probably the biggest idiot ever to occupy the oval office. It's not about Republican or Democrat. It's about telling the truth. I voted for Bush both times because the alternative was even worse. And I am sure as hell glad he was in office instead of Gore on Sept. 11.
However, there are no WMDs, no plan to get the hell out of there, and civilians ARE being killed, and more importantly American soldiers are being killed as well. Where does it end?
Saddam needed to go, no doubt. But I simply think he (we) went about it the wrong way. That's all.
We're all still Americans.
Signed
Anonymous Rube
Well? When are you going to come back and tell me how ignorant and stupid I am for not agreeing with everything you read on Fox news?
Signed,
Ignorant Rube
Thanks for you service to our country, first of all. We ARE all Americans, and honest disagreement is part of life in this country. My father was career military, so I have a predisposition to like all who served. So maybe you're not a rube...:>)
I do think you're missing the bigger picture by focusing on the lack of stockpiles of WMD and calling for an exit strategy in Iraq. In George's place I'd have done the same - no taking chances with WMD. But the bigger picture is the spread of democracy, and our resultant secure and economically prosperous future, and that of the rest of the world. But I'll address your comments anyway, except you'll have to do the googling yourself to read the evidence.
There is plenty of evidence out there that Saddam was starting his WMD programs again with Oil for Food money, he built brand new chem/bio labs in 2000-2 with it. Luckily we didn't give him a chance to put them into production. The Al Queda training camp outside of Mosul was, I'm sure, eagerly awaiting the labs production kickoff.
A public exit strategy is not in our soldiers best interest. If you think George Bush wants to keep losing American soldiers any longer than he has to I feel sorry for you - only the most partisan leftist can think that of him. Announcing or even publically suggesting that our soldiers will leave, no matter how far off in the future, can only encourage the terrorists to hold on until then. Simple psy-ops: Never give the enemy hope. I despise the liberal media and congressmen/senators who publicize these calls for withdrawal - I think Kerry lost the presidency in part because of his announced Iraq exit strategy.
What George Bush is doing is not his idea, pre-emptive doctrine and spreading democracy as a means to ensure national security have been around for a long time, a century or more. But I sincerely admire the man for doing it, in the face of a vicious media and an anti-American UN/EU. Everything everyone else has tried has failed miserably, the UN/EU/Liberal talkers talk and innocents around the world continue to die. I'm proud of my president for putting the 'or else' back into US diplomacy. He's not perfect, but it's nice to have a little pragmatism for a change.
Oh, and by the way I've never listened to Rush. I hear he makes a lot of sense tho.
I know liberals are trying to bring Fox News down, they can't survive without their stranglehold on biased reporting in the alphabet networks. Fox isn't completely unbiased, but I've seen both liberal and conservative viewpoints represented on Fox - AND NO WHERE ELSE. They are, by far, the most unbiased news available.
What do you suggest for unbiased reporting? Face it, there is none. I know you think Fox is biased because you hear conservative viewpoints on it, but that's only because you don't hear them anywhere else. Despite the fact that the vast majority of country is moderate or conservative.
Fox stands alone in balanced reporting, more than any other organization by far. But I also do plenty of research through other publications and the net.
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