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To: kattracks
So, why didn't the US Ambassador(s) to the UN know something was not right with the FoO Program? Or maybe they did.

I have about as much confidence in Congress investigating the UN as the 9-11 Committee investigating themselves.

No surprise with the following headline either. We even know that Yassir Arafat is banking in his personal account many millions of dollars tagged for his citizens. The UN has been complicit in supporting terrorism for a long time.

Oil-for-Terror: U.N. Iraq money may have ended up in accounts tied to al Qaeda and the Taliban
      Posted by pookie18
On 04/28/2004 5:04:45 AM CDT with 1 comment


Opinion Journal ^ | 4/28/04 | CLAUDIA ROSETT
It's looking more and more as if one of the best reasons to get rid of Saddam Hussein was that it was probably the only way to get rid of Oil-for-Food. The problem wasn't simply that this huge United Nations relief program for Iraq became a gala of graft, theft, fraud, palace-building and global influence-peddling--though all that was quite bad enough. The picture now emerging is that under U.N. management the Oil-for-Food program, which ran from 1996-2003, served as a cover not only for Saddam's regime to cheat the Iraqi people, but to set up a vast and intricate global...

10 posted on 04/28/2004 3:35:55 AM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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To: TomGuy
Did you see the suggestion on Best of the Web, that Bush appoint Rudy Guliani as the delegate to the UN? They said that Rudy would make quick work of this oil for food scandal and that his over zealous prosecution style would be an asset.
47 posted on 04/28/2004 7:39:55 AM PDT by Eva
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