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Scandal at the U.N.
NY Times ^
| March 17, 2004
| WILLIAM SAFIRE
Posted on 03/17/2004 12:03:16 AM PST by neverdem
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posted on
03/17/2004 12:03:16 AM PST
by
neverdem
To: Mitchell
ping
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posted on
03/17/2004 12:05:15 AM PST
by
Allan
To: neverdem
"The scandal has been brewing for years. The first I learned of it was in a New York Times Op-Ed article last April by the journalist Claudia Rosett charging that the U.N.'s secretive oversight of more than $100 billion in Iraqi oil exports and supposed humanitarian imports was "an invitation to kickbacks, political back-scratching and smuggling done under cover of relief operations."
This guy has lost his credibility. He needs to read something else if he wants to stay informed.
That "OIL for FOOD program has been ripping of the people of Iraq for years, and the Clintons and the madwomam Albright knew what was going on.
To: neverdem
The U.N. is unsalvagable..
Coffee Anus must be fired, at the very least..
He is incompetent at best, and criminally supportive of our enemies...
Move the U.N. out of the U.S...and the U.S. out of the U.N..
Semper Fi
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posted on
03/17/2004 12:28:42 AM PST
by
river rat
(Militant Islam is a cult, flirting with extinction)
To: Just mythoughts
Now that Saddam is history and the program is no longer in place, the NYT can report on the oil-for-food scam and pretend that it's somehow breaking news. Safire's claim that he only learned of it a year ago is just not believable. He's not a simpleton and he doesn't live in a vault.
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posted on
03/17/2004 12:30:14 AM PST
by
Bonaparte
To: neverdem
The U.N. can redeem its sullied reputation by helping to shape Iraq's future.Yeah, let's give this useless corrupt organization an opportunity to be even more corrupt....
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posted on
03/17/2004 12:36:55 AM PST
by
freebilly
To: Bonaparte
If I, a little old lady in the rural Ozarks of Missouri, knew over a year ago that something was mighty hinky about that scurrilious oil-for-food program, Safire the cosmopolitan MUST have had a clue.
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posted on
03/17/2004 12:41:11 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Is life a paradox? Well, yes and no...)
To: Judith Anne
"If I, a little old lady in the rural Ozarks of Missouri, knew over a year ago that something was mighty hinky about that scurrilious oil-for-food program, Safire the cosmopolitan MUST have had a clue."
Now, that is a great post. It is to enable remarks like this to be made that Free Republic exists.
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posted on
03/17/2004 12:54:43 AM PST
by
jocon307
(The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
To: neverdem
coming to light thanks to the Wall Street Journal's reporting
To: jocon307
Well, thanks jocon307. ;-D
Actually, when I first heard about the program, I thought it was a way for Saddam to enrich himself and make under-the-table deals, and doubted the people of Iraq would benefit.
When I heard (in the mid 90s, I think) that the people were starving and didn't have a lot of the necessary medicines, I was sure of that.
When I read, around 2002 that Kofi Annan was, as head of the UN, the administrator of the oil for food program, I realized that was the reason there would never be real pressure from the UN for Saddam to give up his WMD, which I am sure he transported to Syria et al, and also realized that NO weapons would ever be found by the UN inspectors (I spit when I say "UN inspectors").
When I read further that the books on the Oil-for-food program had been shifted from country to country every year, and never actually audited, I thought to myself, what a bleeping piece of work that Kofi Annan is...what a murderer...what an evil man...
The UN is, in my opinion, the most fetid, foul, pus-filled association imaginable. And US taxpayers actually are forced to support it through tax dollars.
Some days, I feel like the dog. Other days, I feel like the hydrant.
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:06:24 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Is life a paradox? Well, yes and no...)
To: river rat
Move the U.N. out of the U.S...and the U.S. out of the U.N.. Unfortunately, it won't happen until it's politically convenient.
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:06:48 AM PST
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: Judith Anne
It is now obvious why the UN would have never backed an invasion. Bush should be on this like white on rice.
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:08:40 AM PST
by
Texasforever
(I apologize in advance)
To: Bonaparte
"Safire's claim that he only learned of it a year ago is just not believable. He's not a simpleton and he doesn't live in a vault.:
I agree that he is not a simpleton, but obviously he thinks the readers of his words are.
To: Texasforever
President Bush has to run the country and the war on terror, and get himself re-elected.
I, however, am not that busy and I'm on it like white on rice, and I hope ALL conservatives are. ;-D
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:15:43 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Is life a paradox? Well, yes and no...)
To: Texasforever
The story is just getting it's legs and being fleshed out. Once most of the facts are out in the open, Pres. Bush and team will be pounding this story till the cows come home. In one full swoop it undercuts all the dims foreign policy talking points for the last.. ummm ...few decades.
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:18:23 AM PST
by
FranklinsTower
(Kerry is a fair weather politician.)
To: Judith Anne
Yes, the UN is very bad. I also agree with the other poster who said "US out the UN and UN out of the US".
Hubby and I dream of the day when the UN will be ousted from NYC, and their very nice building and campus converted into condominiums. Wonderful river views you'd have too. It's one of the biggest wastes of good real estate, ever.
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:22:56 AM PST
by
jocon307
(The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
To: neverdem
May 16, 2003
The United States, United Kingdom, and Spain have jointly put forward a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for the lifting of economic sanctions against Iraq and the phasing out of the oil-for-food program. France and Russia have opposed the move, arguing that sanctions should be lifted and oil for food ended only after Iraq has been declared free of weapons of mass destruction by U.N. inspectors and the United Nations has been given a lead role in shaping the future of Iraq.
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posted on
03/17/2004 1:47:44 AM PST
by
kcvl
To: neverdem
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posted on
03/17/2004 4:14:40 AM PST
by
GailA
(Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
To: All
It sounds as though this whole escapade will lead the way for the U.N. passing a resolution in support of our efforts in Iraq.
Note to the U.N.: Don't ever misunderestimate our President.
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posted on
03/17/2004 4:20:14 AM PST
by
Loyal Buckeye
((Kerry is a flake))
To: Loyal Buckeye
this is gonna be big ..IMHO
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posted on
03/17/2004 4:22:11 AM PST
by
rrrod
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