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| Iraq |
| Whats all the this Hubub-Bub? |
| 2004-01-30 |
| Saddam’s Exploitation of U.N. Sanctions "Since the deposed regime endorsed the ’Memorandum of Understanding,’ also known as ’oil for food [program],’ it turned it into a despicable political and commercial game, and used it to finance its clandestine acquisitions of arms, expensive construction materials for the presidential palaces and mosques, and frivolous luxury items. It turned the oil sales agreements into the greatest bribery operation in history, buying souls and pens, and squandering the nation’s resources. Since then, rumors were abound about vouchers that Saddam gave to certain Arab and foreign dignitaries, providing them with crude oil in exchange for their support to the regime in a period of international isolation, and as a way to finance the campaign to lift the economic sanctions against it and to whitewash its image." whitewash what? |
| Posted by:Lucky |
| #6 2010, UN head-Qtrs, Bagdad! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-1-30 11:20:08 PM |
| #5 The UN will die a slow death, unfortunately, mainly because it employs a lot of European diplomats. It will become more of a joke however. And hopefully, one day, it will become too ridiculous to even pretend it has any moral rectitude. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-1-30 4:16:39 PM |
| #4 Peshawar... Regnad Kcin does, indeed, live! Hmmm. I wonder if Saddam had to split his key to the vault with the /Peshawar Oil for Food Only a confirmed moron could possibly deny this was one of the most costly and corrupt jokes ever perpetrated. I loved yesterday's (?) article about it where a UN Spokesphool, speaking in the present - not some old pre-war blather, said it had been "audited" multiple times and claims of abuse were disproven. A classic case of blindered twits who believe the bogus paperwork when the truth is right in front of them - or on the docks. Note that for the UN / multilateralist crowd such obvious discrepancies don't interrupt their sleep. Long ago they abandoned reality, which didn't suit them well at all, for phantasy. Nothing will ever come of exposing this sham - or the huge number of whores (the bad kind) who participated - since they are the UN functionaries who will decide what will be done about it. Yet another reason the UN is DEAD. When will we stop throwing money at a bad hand and fold up this joke? We've certainly learned a lot from the failures of the League of Nations and the UN, so why don't we begin formulating an entity that will work? One with proven checks and balances which we can get behind and know that it isn't a sham? Some (many?) people are so unsure of their own values and ethics that they want (need?) this (currently) bogus imprimatur of respectability, legitimacy, and morality. So why not design an entity that actually delivers these things - constituted of member states that follow some well-chosen principles? I would certainly like for the US to jettison those who play the accommodation / appeasement games (can you say State Dept and other constituent bureaucracies?) so we could sign up and make good on our pledge. At the moment, I believe that no nation is worthy or capable of guaranteeing anything approaching 100% integrity - and that's both a shame and an embarrassment to me. A government with depts and agencies vying against each other and making policy (instead of executing it... e.g. CIA using asshat Joe Wilson & the follow-on Plame Affair) is just simply stupid, not to mention ineffective, distracting, and self-defeating. Perhaps Dubya will make a sorely-needed stand on this issue (the UN and follow-on) in a second term. He's certainly the only man on the US horizon who might... so we should do everything in our power to make sure he gets it - else everything in the last 2+ yrs is for naught, since all of the opposition candidates wish to undo it all - except for Lieberman, and he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning their nomination. The UN truly is a dead rat on America's kitchen floor. Time to clean it up - and our act, too. It's sure as hell no one else is going to do it. Taking on such an effort is the American way, not to mention a demonstration of true leadership. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-1-30 12:55:07 PM |
| #3 Another minister has issued a denial. A former French Minister of the Interior. I don't understand why Sadaam would need to bribe a Minister of the Interior of another country. Maybe it was about the oooooiiiilllll. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-30 11:40:18 AM |
| #2 Since we here in the US are the greediest and most-oil hungry people to exist throughout history, why is it that WE DIDN'T get in on the conucopia of oil wealth being offered by Saddam? Could it be that we are NOT the "greediest", most "materialistic" nation on Earth? Is it possible that those nations opposing our removal of Saddam's regime are the same nations that were involved in taking documented oil bribes? Where are all the LLLs when nations OTHER than the US act like "greedy, selfish, oil-hungry, corporate-controlled puppet regimes"? Why do they get a free ticket in the LLL world? Answer: the LLLs have no ideology. No matter WHAT reasons they give for their actions, the bottom line is that they simply hate the United States and George W. Bush. |
| Posted by: Unmutual 2004-1-30 10:18:33 AM |
| #1 ..No, it's 'What's all this brou-ha-ha?" Nick Danger lives. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2004-1-30 9:29:26 AM |