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Volcker Report Will Be Very Critical of U.N. Oil-for-Food Operation
Associated Press ^ | Feb 2, 2005 | Edith M. Lederer

Posted on 02/02/2005 5:28:53 PM PST by ijcr

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Congress must be breathing heavily down Volkers neck.
1 posted on 02/02/2005 5:28:54 PM PST by ijcr
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Maybe it will be as severe as the CBS report. /sarcasm


2 posted on 02/02/2005 5:33:24 PM PST by peyton randolph (CAIR supports TROP terrorists)
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"The oil-for-food program, launched in December 1996 to help ordinary Iraqis cope ............. quickly became a lifeline for 90 percent of the population.

what a bare-faced lie!


3 posted on 02/02/2005 5:34:18 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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I heard a report the other day that tied Volker to a company benefiting from... drum roll... oil for food. We'll just see what weasle words and phrases show up in this report, and which don't. I've seen so many scam investigations in the last twelve years, I'm just not buying anything sight unseen anymore. Volker, you've got a rep on the block. Don't choke now!


4 posted on 02/02/2005 5:37:11 PM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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As if Congress could run an investigation. LOL

Breathing down his back? Who's breathing down theirs?


5 posted on 02/02/2005 5:38:36 PM PST by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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Since AP is the same outfit that reported a GI Joe doll as a hostage, I no longer take them seriously as news outfit.


6 posted on 02/02/2005 5:40:31 PM PST by stylin_geek (Liberalism: comparable to a chicken with its head cut off, but with more spastic motions)
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"Volker report will be very critical....

Ooooh. I bet they're shaking in their boots at the thought of some harsh words.

Not a bad deal for Coffee Anon and his cohorts. A few uncomfortable moments from some old cigar chompin' dude in exchange for millions and billions of untracable petro dollars.

7 posted on 02/02/2005 5:41:57 PM PST by Edit35
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It would be nice if the report just laid the facts on the table.


8 posted on 02/02/2005 5:45:03 PM PST by popdonnelly
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...Annan quipped with a laugh, "Do I look worried?" ...

You'll get yours Kofi. If not in this life, the next.


9 posted on 02/02/2005 5:48:37 PM PST by planekT
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Unfortunately, no matter what may be in it, the Volker commission is also tainted badly and cannot be trusted.


10 posted on 02/02/2005 5:49:49 PM PST by thoughtomator (How do you say Berkeley California in Aramaic?)
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Kofi says, don't worry, be happy!


11 posted on 02/02/2005 5:51:07 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: ijcr

Thanks for the post.


12 posted on 02/02/2005 5:56:47 PM PST by PGalt
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To: anniegetyourgun

Coughing Anus will get his due. He'll get to watch as his beloved UN is defunded by the US, withers, and dies.


13 posted on 02/02/2005 5:58:09 PM PST by datura (Destroy The UN, the MSM, and China. The rest will fall into line once we get rid of these.)
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To: ijcr

Volker needs to be replaced. He has outrageously close financial ties to TotalFinaElf and Bank Paribas--the French oil company and bank at the center of the scandal. His report may sound tough, but will whitewash offical UN corruption. Paul volker can no longer be trusted.


14 posted on 02/02/2005 5:59:17 PM PST by montag813
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Dunno.....Beelzabubba may be assigned to "rescue" the U.N. Picture a world with one Clinton running the U.N. and the other one in the Whitehouse. Scary, huh?


15 posted on 02/02/2005 5:59:42 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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Picture Clinton getting the UN job, and the US withdrawing from the UN in response. (Plus rescinding ALL treaties signed with the UN.)

Besides, I don't think Bubba's health is too good. It seems he's not long for this world by looking at him. I'd be afraid of Hillary somehow working herself into a Supreme Court position where she could de facto write laws that lived for generations more than I fear her as POTUS.


16 posted on 02/02/2005 6:07:53 PM PST by datura (Destroy The UN, the MSM, and China. The rest will fall into line once we get rid of these.)
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Volker is NOT going to produce the "report" we all demand..

Volker is part of the "clan" to cover up the crimes..
The U.N. will simply up a sacrificial lamb to slaughter -- then the rest will remain in the shadows with the stolen loot..

Kofi Anus and others must resign...
Someone must file charges and put some bastards in prison..

YES - some U.N. officers in PRISON..

Semper Fi


17 posted on 02/02/2005 6:33:09 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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"The interim report will not address questions about U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan or the employment of his son, Kojo, or anyone else asociated with the massive fraud that cost thousands of innocent Iraqis their lives and undermined US efforts to topple the Saddam Regime short of war thereby causing the needless deaths of over 1,000 US Soldiers had these efforts been allowed to proceed without UN interference."*

* Bold script added by me

I will believe this so-called 'Harshly Critical' Report is really that when I see it. And what sanctions will be imposed as a result - Severe looks?

The scramble has been on for many months, and it continues at present, in the effort to hide actual wrongdoings and excuse the inexcusable. The avarice and greed that inhabits the UN and which ,in recent years has begun to overwhelm many US Private and Public institutions, thrives in an environment of toothless, showcase committees who dawdle over producing meaningless, cynical 'Reports'. In the modern age it seems there is no need for an outmoded concept - Accountability and Responsibility.

18 posted on 02/02/2005 6:52:56 PM PST by drt1
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Fat chance


19 posted on 02/02/2005 6:58:53 PM PST by honest2God
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To: river rat; montag813; thoughtomator; MojoWire; DoughtyOne; Vn_survivor_67-68; peyton randolph

Please see my post 18


20 posted on 02/02/2005 7:01:32 PM PST by drt1
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