Breaking Point: U.N. Blood Money, Kofi Annan Under Fire (Live Thread)

Fox News ^ | February 09, 2005 | Hosted by David Asman

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Breaking Point: U.N. Blood Money
Kofi Annan Under Fire

Airing on Sun., Feb. 13 at 9 p.m. ET
Hosted by David Asman

The United Nations' Oil-for-Food program was supposed pay for food and medicine for the Iraqi people. But corruption allowed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to steal billions of dollars, while his people suffered.

Now, as the facts are coming to light, the question remains: How was this colossal scandal allowed to happen?

This weekend, the network that has been on top of the investigation into the scandal from the beginning brings you an all-new "Breaking Point" investigation.

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15 minutes in and this program is definitely eviscerating Kofi Annan.

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[BladeLWS]

They're ripping em a new one!

[hansel]

Wow. Kofi looks like an incompetent buffoon.

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They just showed photos of the perfume bottles in that lab and mentioned that the shapes were very similar to many of the popular brands.

[filly]

This is stunning.

Nearly one million people have been killed while Kofi stood by and watched.

And they give him the Nobel Peace Prize. What parallel universe is this?

[Freee-dame]

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[nicmarlo]

well, it is a European prize, after all!

[commonguymd]

Should be criminally responsible.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Wow. Kofi looks like an incompetent buffoon.

Perhaps Kofi is? Guess it all depends upon the meaning of ‘IS”?

[Fred Nerks]

Same Universe that gave one to arafat.

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Lowlights so far:

• 60 Congresscritters, mostly pubs but some dems are calling for his resignation.
• Kofi was pushed for the SecGen role by US primarily because of his peacekeeping experience but ... while head of the peacekeeping arm of the UN, Kofi let the Hutu and Tutsi genocide occur as well as the Bosnian killings. When peacekeepers had foreknowledge of the H/T killings and asked Kofi's office for permission to intercede, they were told it was out of the scope of their mandate.
• Kofi renegotiated O-F-F with Saddam in order to get the weapons inspectors back in. Made the deal which upped the amount of oil and therefore money flowing. Saddam reneged right away and the inspectors were out. But the oil kept flowing.

[hansel]

Seeing that Kofi and Bill are working together now, I'm sure Bill will be coaching him in all the different definitions.

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Now the Scott Ritter $400,000 film mentioned along with the stunning reversal from never-give-an-inch to hosting RATs visiting Saddam.

[nicmarlo]

I wouldn't doubt that Klintoon is overseeing that certain things get hidden/shredded at Kofi's place.

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I thought that was the specialty of the little woman.

[ArmyBratproud]

David Asman just said that, here in a few minutes, they will go into what the Volker report says.

AND they will mention what the report did not look at.

This is very important...

Because just a few days ago on local talk radio here in the North Texas area...

Congressman Joe Barton (R),who is chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee, indicated that if all questions were not answered.......he would dig deeper.

There are US citizens who work at the UN....and Barton, due to his position, can subpoena them.

[JustaCowgirl]

Wow. Kofi looks like an incompetent buffoon.

Sounds like they're painting a pretty accurate portrait, then?

[hansel]

I concur. Things that may inhibit his wife's ascension to the WH.

Things related to Marc Rich, perhaps?

[nicmarlo]

She can't get her hands muddy....she's gonna run for president, doncha know.