they might be allies... but they certainly aren't OURS!!!
Posted on 10/06/2004 12:17:49 PM PDT by kingattax
The governments of France, Russia, China and Syria blocked U.S. efforts within the United Nations to stop Saddam Hussein from misusing the oil-for-food program, a State Department official told Congress yesterday. Patrick F. Kennedy, a State official who is a representative to the United Nations for management and reform, told a House hearing that other U.N. member states "resisted" U.S. efforts to end bribery and contracting corruption under the program aimed at providing humanitarian relief from anti-Saddam sanctions. "We began pushing for a system to bring this under control," Mr. Kennedy said. "It was resisted by other nations. We were challenged." Mr. Kennedy told the House Government Reform subcommittee on national security, emerging threats and international relations that the opponents asked the United States for hard evidence of corruption. France, Russia, China and Syria were among the members of a special committee overseeing the oil-for-food program that opposed U.S. efforts to stop corruption that led to more than $10 billion being stolen by Saddam and his regime, Mr. Kennedy said.
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And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Corruption at the UN is and has been the norm forever. It's how the vast majority of members normally do business... by bribes and intimidation.
Kerry and his euro trash buddies are the true axis of evil.
they might be allies... but they certainly aren't OURS!!!
Good to see this hit the Washington Times. It's been on Fox but needs wider distribution before Nov. 2nd.
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