[NDpapajoe]

Ahhhh Paul, We hardly knew ye.
In 1987 when I was a Finance student Volker could do no wrong. My hopes lie more with the congressional investigation anyway.
Take it easy,
Papa Joe

[piasa]

Total also has interests in BNP Paribas — the New York-chartered bank that underwrote nearly all Oil-for-Food transactions

Wan't this bank the one that lost out on the UN deal to the French bank?

[nopardons]

Oh oh,Volker should never have taken this on.What...he thought none of this would come out? And his whitewash isn't working;we all know what's underneath that overly watered down paint.

[msnimje]

This is just like Dick Thornburg (an attorney for CBS) investigating Memogate.

[backhoe]

My 2¢'s about the UN?

Neal Boortz has the right idea- kick them off US soil, plop them down in Haiti, and tell them, "when you get this straightened out, give us a call..."

Moreover:

--Sex abuse charges rock UN in Congo-
-- Interesting this is being posted today. Talk show host Dennis Prager had the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Doree Gold, on his show today. Mr. Gold has just written a book about the UN called the Tower of Babble(i think this was the title). Some of the things he was saying about the UN were unbelievable.

--TV campaign urging: Kick U.N. out of U.S.-
"I say we just give the entire country of Haiti to the UN."--or move them to Zimbabwe or another country in Africa. Let them see what the really do for the world.

--UN knew of Saddam's oil-for-food thefts: BBC-
The sooner we resign from this corrupt organization and kick them off our soil, the better.

Click this picture & goto "last" for the latest UN scandals:

American Policy Center on-line Declaration of Independence from the U.N.

[Political Junkie Too]

To tie it all together, here is an excerpt from a wonderful April 10, 2003 column by Mark Steyn, Welcome to Anglo-Saxon reality:

The Western oil company with the closest ties to the late Saddam is France's TotalFinaElf. That's not the curious fact, that's just business as usual in the Fifth Republic. This is the curious fact: As Diane wrote in February and again last week, "Total's biggest shareholder is Montreal's Paul Desmarais, whose youngest son is married to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's daughter."

Let's see if I've got this straight: TotalFinaElf's largest shareholder is a subsidiary of Montreal's Power Corp, whose co-chief executive is Jean Chrétien's son-in-law, Andre Desmarais. Mr. Desmarais' brother, Paul Desmarais Jr., sits on the Total board.

So, what does this mean? France and Canada were related by marriage in the oil-for-food scandal, and Paul Volcker was sitting on the board of some of the involved companies?

-PJ