Posted on 05/23/2004 8:20:30 AM PDT by rdb3
"Whereas UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, whose son, Kojo, worked for Cotecna,
is now adopting a constructionist view of the contract disclosure clauses, the OIP
was decidedly generous with Cotecna when it came to pecuniary and operating clauses."
Just another example of the truism: Repulicans/conservatives are the
only people who recuse themselves in investigative matters.
It is unfortunate that the mainstream media is engrossed with the "torture" of the Iraqi prisoners and not this story. The fun is going to be in seeing all the left wing bozos who showed us the starving children of Iraq with no medicine because of the sanctions eat crow. Sounds like CNN might have to explain their reporting and maybe their stories about Sadam. Now, that would be FUN
I promise to steal cheat and lie all in the name of human decency
Kev-Head heres one to archive on the website
Get us out of the UN and the UN out of the US!
This is what the Ketchup Boy wants us to cede our sovereignty to? I don't think so.
Relegate the UN to a minor foot note next to the League of Nations on the pages of history.
Good catch. I read Tim Wood's reports in Mineweb fairly often. He's a good man, and I'm sure this is an honest report of what he was given.
You mean the UN is corrupt? No, no say it isn't so.
I'd love to see it happen, but I'm not holding my breath....
ping
Surrender Monkey in Saville Row like Suits
It's amazing to watch Kerry and the Dems call Bush incompetent and a liar when the very organization they put so much faith in is guilty of all those attributes. Is it any wonder why these people didn't want to remove Saddam? Between this scandal..France and Russias future oil contracts, continual breeches in the trade embargo, and the debt owed to them by Saddam, they obviously put their financial interests above those of the security of, not only the USA...but of everybody threatened by this monster.
When Kerry and the Dems talk about the failure of this war, one must remind them that we may not have had a war if Saddam didn't feel emboldened and enabled by these countries who never had the intention of supporting his removal. And this is important because these are the same countries who voted 15-0 to support "whatever means necessary" to remove Saddam if he didn't adhere to the UN resolutions...or if he breeched those resolutions.
Saddam's belligerence with regards to unhindered access to scientists, U2 flyovers, etc., was a direct result of him knowing that there were certain countries who would never support the use of force against him. This was further corraborated with France's duplicity, were Chirac and DeVillian had given personal, private assurances to both Bush and Powell that they would, indeed, support the use of force if necessary (re: Timmerman's, France Lied).
Unfortunately, to Powell's dismay, DeVillian announced to the world that France couldn't participate in the use of force against Saddam. This announcement took Powell by so much surprise that he was angered beyond belief. And it wasn't enough that France had to withdrawal; Chirac and DeVillian proceeded to travel the world coercing others to do the same...which even makes me wonder if Turkey's last minute pullout may have been a result of French pressure, relating to their EU status.
Instead of providing a truly unified front to force Saddam to acquiesce...and to potentially avoid war, Saddam knew (or, so he thought) that he would never be removed because he had these countries in his hip pocket. It wasn't Bush who lied or mislead anybody...it was the very people and countries that Kerry and the Democrats put so much credibility in. But instead of condemning them for their lies, fraud and abuse, they attack the president of our own country who's been the only straight shooter throughout.
If they want to call it a war for oil...let 'em. But just remind them who were the one's doing the profiting from this tyrant over the last decade as they even broke their own embargo and traded with this enemy. Sure, this war hasn't gone as smoothly as some would've hoped, but let's remember that right from the very beginning there have been those (not even Muslims) who have done their best to see to that.
So...France had it's hands in the Board of Auditors...
Nice to see the evil, lying, scheming, socialist, pro-Islamazi SCUMBAGS not only were on the take, but were in position to C.Y.A. when they get caught, and also were able to stall our efforts against Saddam to maximize their profits and allow his WMD's to be smuggled to OTHER scummy countries and Terrorists!!
I say screw Syria and N. Korea....take out the duplicitous FRENCH first!!!
Kick them OUT of NATO...kick them OUT of the UN...then kick the UN OUT of the USA!
Finally, take the French out before they can surrender!!!
Oh, and sieze all French assets in the US...sieze their accounts, and Nationalize all their companies and holdings here! That should help recover the costs on the War on Terror that their actions FORCED us to incur!
Haven't heard the phrase war for oil since the French Connection broke and gas prices started to climb. Now it's a war of colonial imperialism.
Don' these commies have anyone that can write new scripts. Geez their recycling the lines from the Korean War for the Second time.
datum.
& thanks.
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