Posted on 11/13/2004 11:22:24 PM PST by crushelits
UNITED NATIONS -- Benon Sevan, the official accused of improperly receiving lucrative rights to purchase oil from Saddam Hussein's government while he was running the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, discouraged his staff from probing allegations of corruption and helped block efforts by the U.N. anti-corruption unit to assess where the program was vulnerable to abuse, according to senior U.N. officials.
Sevan said that such an assessment would prove too costly and that U.N. member governments bore primary responsibility for policing the program, according to senior U.N. officials and other former program members. He did initiate reviews of possible overcharging on some program contracts, reviews on which the U.N. Security Council took no action.
The disclosures, drawn from interviews with more than two dozen current and former U.N. officials and diplomats, follow a report last month by the top U.S. weapons inspector, Charles A. Duelfer, that Hussein personally approved the allocation of vouchers to Sevan, among about 270 other officials and businessmen, to sell millions of barrels of Iraqi crude at a profit of 10 cents to 35 cents a barrel.
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It is handing the torch of delivering truth to America to us, only because we are ripping it out of their cold dead hands!
I can probably be correct in saying the democrate were probably on board with this too. The UN should be bulldozed into the heap of rubble for which it truly has evolved. UN = the hate America commie complex.
We have an entire forum devoted to the UN schmucks over at our conservative news site:
http://p074.ezboard.com/fthegoodthebadandtheugly49488frm72
You can read all you want, but must be registered (for free; it's an EZ Board) to post. Freepers are most definately welcome! :)
Put his balls in a vise and broadcast the results on BBC World.
Unless they realize they are caught and are going to turn to their next trick--throw someone to the pack to let the others escape!
Sevon belongs in a prison cell in Baghdad.
We'd debate in the U.N....goodness, here we go again
All we saw was their stonewalling
This one really takes the cake...many had been on the take
All those scumbags should be falling
Marc Rich had been where he shouldn't have been
Thanks to Bill, he would get away clean
And we're ready for major league *ss kicking now
That is nothing like we've ever seen
Food, oil for food...the U.N. was scamming
Kofi, you are toast...FOX News says it damning
No wonder they voted NO...money had been flowing
They hoped that their bank accounts kept on growing
Food, oil for food...10 billion they'd gather
This story does not...interest Mr. Rather
Saddam had paid terrorists...connect all the dots
It's food...oil for food...they are so screwed...oil for food
Food, oil for food...the U.N. was scamming
Kofi, you are toast...FOX News says it damning
Money had bought weapons that killed some of our soldiers
Chirac, we should make sure you don't grow older
Food, oil for food...10 billion they'd gather
This story does not...interest Mr. Rather
Saddam had paid terrorists...connect all the dots
It's food...oil for food...oil for food...they are so screwed...oil for food
Oil for food...they are screwed
Bundle him up and send him to Iraq and let the new Iraqi government try him for crimes against their children.
Quick! Bring me my smelling salts!
Am specifically looking for information on the Korean War and the UN's treachery, which had allegedly began then.
Coleman to Hold Hearing: How Saddam Hussen Abused the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program [MN]
The US Republican party vs. the UN reminds me of a scene from Star Wars, where the phrase from the world's people is "please help us......you're our only hope".
Some interesting reading at:
www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/archives/
Have fun.
5.56mm
Based on other things the U.N. has done and what OUR government hasn't done, my guess is this will fade away and nothing more comes from it.
Unless of course WE do something about it. i.e. Tell OUR effing government to get us the hell out of the U.N.!!
I didn't see anything on the Korean War (where supposedly it all started) at http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/archive/.
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