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Home Front: WoT
La République des Bananes
2004-10-20
Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, finds it "inconceivable" that Russia, France or China might have been influenced in Security Council debates by Saddam Hussein's Oil for Food business and bribes. "These are very serious and important governments," Mr. Annan told Britain's ITV News Sunday. "You are not dealing with banana republics."

This has been Mr. Annan's chief response so far to the extensive documentation cited in the recent Iraq Survey Group report, from the CIA's Charles Duelfer, that under cover of the U.N.'s Oil for Food relief program Saddam was trying to buy up pals on the U.N. Security Council. Mr. Duelfer tells us that under the leaky U.N. sanctions and corrupt Oil for Food program, Saddam had already built the networks and was amassing the resources to rearm himself with weapons of mass destruction as soon as U.N. sanctions were entirely gone.
Posted by:tipper

#4  Fie upon you all. How could you doubt Kofi?

It's well known that politicians from the Central African Republic are beyond criticism! Or at leat you get killed if you DO criticize them....

What a joke. When do we cut the UN's funding off?
Posted by: Secret Master   2004-10-20 7:21:01 PM  

#3  Why should we believe Kofi Annan who is a serial aider of genocide on anything? I mean it is pretty obvious the French were using the "Oil for Food" program as a way to fill the coffers of the ruling partys well known political slush funds. These "Oil" or more aptly Blood vouchers were used to fill Chirac's well know political slush fun.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-10-20 5:44:51 PM  

#2  Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, finds it "inconceivable" that Russia, France or China might have been influenced in Security Council debates by Saddam Hussein’s Oil for Food business and bribes.

Haa...haahahaaa....HAAHAHAHAAAA....HAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-10-20 5:38:54 PM  

#1  "...it "inconceivable" that Russia, France or China might have been influenced in Security Council debates by Saddam Hussein’s Oil for Food business and bribes."

They weren't actually --- they'd do it anyway. The oil vouchers were just the icing.
Posted by: Anonymous6092   2004-10-20 4:58:07 PM  

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