[highlander_UW]

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday the United States and Britain bore part of the blame in the Iraq oil-for-food debacle by allowing unsupervised oil exports that Saddam Hussein exploited.

I think the US and UK should grab onto this statement of Annan's...he's clearly stating that he expects us to be the watchdog of the UN's illegal activities.

[Tamberlane]

Hello, anyone at home? *knock knock*

The UN had nothing to do with this, neither actively (they were not involved in this smuggling) nor passively (it was not the UN's responsibility to prevent it, but the Multinational Interception Force, which is unrelated to the UN).

I am on the verge on giving up on this whole board. Are we going to have more respect for basic facts than the drooling dummies on DU, or are we, too, just going to make stuff up to make it fit our preconception?