HOW TO BUY A FRENCH VETO (IN THE UN)

New York Post ^ | 4/28/04 | DICK MORRIS

[kattracks]

April 28, 2004 -- ANYONE who pines for genuine international multilateralism would do well to follow the bribes now being uncovered in the United Nations' Oil-for- Food scandal. Why did France and Russia oppose efforts to topple Saddam Hussein's regime? And why did they press constantly, throughout the '90s, for an expansion of Iraqi oil sales? Was it their empathy for the starving children of that impoverished nation? Their desire to stop the United States from arrogantly imposing its vision upon the Middle East?

[Bob Eimiller]

Jaques Chirac should be tried right along with Saddam as a war criminal. He was well aware of the atrocities committed in Iraq. In fact I suspect he sanctioned some of the mass murders to get his oil out.

[MJY1288]

This Scandal will go down in history as the most corrupt operation in the history of the planet. The U.N. is nothing but a corrupt 3rd world organization designed to redistribute the worlds wealth to Nations, who not only don't deserve it, but don't even appreciate it.

The U.N. has always looked to the U.S. for leadership, and for the 8 years of the Clinton Administration the U.N. had no one to lead them, and the ambitions of the corrupt went unchallenged. No one can tell me that the Clinton Admin. didn't know about the corruption in the Iraq, Oil for Food Program. They simply ignored it as per usual.

When President Bush addressed the UN in 2002, he shamed them into voting for Resolution 1441, but when it was clear that GWB meant what he said, The French, Germans and Russians had no choice but to not support us, they knew we would find the evidence of the corruption and payoffs from Saddam.

The U'N. or a world body like them is a necessary evil, but we must lead the way, those sorry bastards are incapable of doing so.

[dennisw]

Mo' moolah for UN bottom feeders

[Defender2]

That's easy considering french morals. Any equation of money will do.

[kattracks]

Mo' moolah for UN bottom feeders

And Kerry wants to turn Iraq over to them. What's the problem, they didn't make enough $$$ the first time around?

[McGavin999]

I hope this paper is read by the UN officials. Even if it isn't, it's great that the people in the city where these thieves live and work are going to know all about their little "deals".

I'd say they should be embarrassed, but people who could do these things seldom have the grace to be ashamed.

[squidly]

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[JennysCool]

That is one darned good summation! Kudos!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

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[backhoe]

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[Cronos]

Can anyone tell me why France is still a permanent member of the Security council. I think the security council should be made up of nations that can make changes in significant stretches of the world -- either militarily or economically. so, the permanent security council now would have to consist of the US, Japan, Russia, China, India, the UK and maybe a Franco-German combine. Leaving Germany, Japan and India out of the permenent security council is daft.

[Cronos]

In fact I suspect he sanctioned some of the mass murders to get his oil out.

rrr that's going too wacked out far. I don't like Jacques, but I don't think he's quite that much

[Bob Eimiller]

I heard something to the effect that Chirac knew about mass murder because of oil production and he looked the other way because of his illicit contracts with the dictator... if true, what do you call it?

[OESY]

The French, Germans and Russians had no choice but to not support us, they knew we would find the evidence of the corruption and payoffs from Saddam.

You owe it to yourself to reread this and other articles about the Food For Oil program. You may find that the success of the US pacification program for Germany was the overriding factor in Schroeder's antiwar stance rather than deals with Saddam, unlike the situation with France and Russia.

[truth4]

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[John Lenin]

dump the Un bump

[Wolfstar]

The U.N. or a world body like them is a necessary evil...

Why? Human beings got along for many thousands of years without a world body — in fact right up until the League of Nations formally began on January 10, 1920. The United Nations is nothing but a revamp of the League, which turned its assets over to the UN on April 18, 1946.

So, in the 84 years since 1920, what has the world body accomplished? Did it prevent WWII? Or Stalin's and Mao's mass starvation of their own people? Or, for that matter, prevent the spread of Communism into China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Africa and elsewhere? Has it stamped out slavery in those areas where it still exists? For every dollar spent on programs to help fight poverty and famine in the third world, how many dollars went to line the pockets of UN bureaucrats and the big shots in their home countries? Has it helped resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict? Or prevented any war, anywhere? Or any genocide?

Other than being a sometimes useful tool to contain the Soviets during the Cold War, what useful purpose has the UN ever served? How much corruption has gone uncovered until this oil-for-food scam?

[John Lenin]

Not to be left behind, the Rev. Jean Marie Benjamin of the Vatican got the rights to sell 4.5 million barrels as recompense for setting up a meeting between Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and the pope.

This is amazing, the popes lackeys were in on it too.

[cricket]

"If President Bush has suffered some discredit over his apparently false - but not disingenuous - claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the lapse is minor compared to the outright personal selfishness and criminality that appears to have motivated many of those who opposed his efforts to rid the world of one of its worst dictators."

This has been a political shell game played by the Liberal Left. . .

Keep the attacks on Bush/Cheney; the hand and lips moving at all times; while these world-class, criminals fatten their own Swiss bank accounts for a trade - the pain and suffering and the lives, of innocent men, women...children; who now are fill in mass graves.

For the the Left; the truth is their biggest challenge. Thankfully; they have yet to make it a total and complete vanishing act.

For the larger world, not to see the hypocrisy; the sheer sin of 'self' of those who embrace this Socialist/Leftist nightmare of an idiology; is to invite a continued and painful ignorance upon the world.