Saturday, October 29, 2005
"Oh Mr. Annan"...."Yes!, Mr. Merimee...."
"I have some lovely crude oil for you if only you will permit...'Mister H' to procure some Louis XIV furniture."
"K.A., are you asking me to look the other way?"
"Oh, J.B.M., you are so literal. Yes, I am asking you to look the other way."
"I already am."
"[the investigation] meticulously detailed how the $64 BILLION program became a cash cow for Saddam...", and those companies and individuals who were paid off were paid off "at the expense of regular Iraqis SUFFERING under tough U.N. sanctions."
And this organization, the U.N., is the group that the Liberals tout as a governing body to which we, the U.S., should submit its subservience? NO COUNTRY should have to be held accountable or answerable to the U.N. - ever.
"The corruption of the program by Saddam would not nearly have been so pervasive if they had been diligent management by the United Nations and its agencies," said Volker. In other words, Saddam Hussein had the U.N. et al, in the palm of his hand. Meanwhile, Iraqi people suffered and died, were brutalized and executed during Hussein's presidency.
If a business or company ran itself the way the U.N. has run and 'managed' itself, not only would that business be financially bankrupt and ruined, the officers, by all accounts, would be tried and likely found guilty of, and in violation of, its own resolutions (yeah, that's like a ticket for littering) bribery, sedition, and participation in genocide to name but a few things.
The U.N. is to a governing body what Union Carbide was to Bopahl, India. Far worse, actually, because the U.N. crowd had to have known what they were doing was wrong. This is not a governing body that the U.S. needs to answer to, Thank You.
A business run like the U.N. would be gutted. The same should apply to the U.N. I'm sure there are many good people doing good work for the U.N., but it's time to say good bye to all of them, and rebuild and retool. Or let it implode and collapse. That would probably be the better result.
The Left never lets us forget their mantra about an "oil connection to the 'war for oil' and Bush, Cheney, Halliburton", but none of the Left believe the charges about those named in the Volker investigation were on the take?
"Oh Mr. Annan."
"Yes, 'Mister H'?"
"Get me twenty more of those solid gold lion statues for my palaces."
"Yes, 'Mister H', right away..."
"Wait, that's not all. Here's a shopping list."
"Happy to oblige."
©2005
"K.A., are you asking me to look the other way?"
"Oh, J.B.M., you are so literal. Yes, I am asking you to look the other way."
"I already am."
Jean-Bernard Merimee, France's former UN ambassador, received $165,725 in commissions from oil allocations awarded to him by the Iraqi regime. The report named some high-profile individuals and companies including a former French interior minister, Charles Pasqua; Rev. Jean-Marie Benjamin, a priest who once worked as an assistant to the Vatican secretary of state and opposed Iraqi sanctions; carmakers DaimlerChrysler, Volvo and South Korea' Daewoo International; and industrial giants Siemens. Pasqua, a conservative who headed the interior ministry in the late 1980s and early 1990s, said he was unwittingly implicated.
"[the investigation] meticulously detailed how the $64 BILLION program became a cash cow for Saddam...", and those companies and individuals who were paid off were paid off "at the expense of regular Iraqis SUFFERING under tough U.N. sanctions."
And this organization, the U.N., is the group that the Liberals tout as a governing body to which we, the U.S., should submit its subservience? NO COUNTRY should have to be held accountable or answerable to the U.N. - ever.
"The corruption of the program by Saddam would not nearly have been so pervasive if they had been diligent management by the United Nations and its agencies," said Volker. In other words, Saddam Hussein had the U.N. et al, in the palm of his hand. Meanwhile, Iraqi people suffered and died, were brutalized and executed during Hussein's presidency.
If a business or company ran itself the way the U.N. has run and 'managed' itself, not only would that business be financially bankrupt and ruined, the officers, by all accounts, would be tried and likely found guilty of, and in violation of, its own resolutions (yeah, that's like a ticket for littering) bribery, sedition, and participation in genocide to name but a few things.
The U.N. is to a governing body what Union Carbide was to Bopahl, India. Far worse, actually, because the U.N. crowd had to have known what they were doing was wrong. This is not a governing body that the U.S. needs to answer to, Thank You.
A business run like the U.N. would be gutted. The same should apply to the U.N. I'm sure there are many good people doing good work for the U.N., but it's time to say good bye to all of them, and rebuild and retool. Or let it implode and collapse. That would probably be the better result.
The Left never lets us forget their mantra about an "oil connection to the 'war for oil' and Bush, Cheney, Halliburton", but none of the Left believe the charges about those named in the Volker investigation were on the take?
"Oh Mr. Annan."
"Yes, 'Mister H'?"
"Get me twenty more of those solid gold lion statues for my palaces."
"Yes, 'Mister H', right away..."
"Wait, that's not all. Here's a shopping list."
"Happy to oblige."
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