Posted on 10/17/2004 10:49:07 PM PDT by Destro
Charge Of Bribing Russia, France With Oil Silly: Annan
New York, Oct. 17 (NNN): United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has dismissed allegations that France and Russia might have been willing to ease sanctions on Iraq in return for oil.
Kofi Annan told the Jonathan Dimbleby programme on British TV channel ITV1 the claims were "inconceivable". "These are very serious and important governments. You are not dealing with banana republics," he added.
The allegations were made earlier this month in a report by the US-led Iraqi Survey Group.
Chief US weapons inspector Charles Duelfer said he had found evidence in documents that Iraqi intelligence under Saddam Hussein had tried to bribe foreign nationals from a number of countries to obtain the lifting of sanctions. Particular attention was allegedly given to French and Russian nationals due to the fact that the two countries hold permanent seats on the UN Security Council.
But Annan firmly dismissed the claims: "I don't think the Russian or the French or the Chinese government would allow itself to be bought because some of their companies are getting contracts from the Iraqi authorities," he said, adding, "I don't believe it at all.”
In the same interview, being broadcast on Sunday, the UN secretary general also said the US-led war on Iraq had not made the world a safer place. "I cannot say the world is safer when you consider the violence around us, when you look around you and you see the terrorist attacks around the world, and you see what is going on in Iraq, " he said. "We have a lot of work to do as an international community to try and make the world safer."
Translation: "Yea, we did it...so, what are you gonna do?"
George Bush is no Pat Buchanan.
"Yo Yo Ma!"
"Nice rack!"
(Seinfeld fans will understand.)
Just like any Democrat..he'll lie until they throw the switch.
However, the interviewer did not follow up and ask whether the amounts paid to his son through the company that was "assuring compliance" under the Oil for Food program was also silly, or whether that might have amounted to bribery. The UN is more corrupt than Chicago under Mayor Daly (the older one). And that's saying some.
Congressman Billybob
Annan is a POS and a radical-Muslim supporter.
Clinton's hand picked guy.
Every thread I see with "Kofi Annan" in it my Blood pressure goes up and I have to watch the cooking channel for 15 minutes !
He has a bright future as a men's room attendant.
(Sorry, JP. I thought that needed some tiding up! :)
Note that he didn't deny the truth of the allegations.
Clinton, with his non-denial denials, would be perfect for this job. But Kofi's got a talent also...
Because there was nothing left after Kofi took his cut.
feel free....lol!
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