This opens a can of worms. Kofi Annan and France had a vested interest in continuing the sanctions. The unspoken question is: will the new Iraqi government have the right to demand an accounting from Kofi Annan? Or is the UN morally above having to answer any questions.
1 posted on
04/18/2003 3:58:00 AM PDT by
wretchard
To: wretchard
The arrogant Axis Of Weasels are above everything. The UN is their toy and Kofi Annan is their puppet.
2 posted on
04/18/2003 3:59:38 AM PDT by
goldstategop
( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: wretchard
Dang good piece!
3 posted on
04/18/2003 4:07:07 AM PDT by
aBootes
To: wretchard
It also collects a 2.2 percent commission on every barrel more than $1 billion to date that is supposed to cover its administrative costs. According to staff members, the program's bank accounts over the past year have held balances upward of $12 billion. With all that money pouring straight from Iraq's oil taps thus obviating the need to wring donations from member countries the oil-for-food program has evolved into a bonanza of jobs and commercial clout. Before the war it employed some 1,000 international workers and 3,000 Iraqis. (The Iraqi employees charged with monitoring Saddam Hussein's imports and distribution of relief goods of course all had to be approved by the Baath Party.)Ah ha. Now the truth comes out. You gotta love the Baath Party members overseeing Saddam's imports and distribution of relief goods.
4 posted on
04/18/2003 4:18:05 AM PDT by
fightinJAG
(A liberal mind already is terribly wasted.)
To: wretchard
Annan is truly Earth's Terrorist-in-Chief, who also supports slavery, antiSemitism, and murderers of Americans.
Who cares what the terrorist thinks -- or his old Europe enablers.
6 posted on
04/18/2003 4:25:37 AM PDT by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.)
To: wretchard
On Feb. 7, with war all but inevitable, Mr. Annan approved a request by the regime for TV broadcasting equipment from Russia. Was this material intended to shore up the propaganda machine Saddam Hussein had built in recent years? After all, the United Nations in 2000 and 2001 approved more than a dozen contracts with Jordan and France for Iraq to import equipment for "educational TV."Was Baghdad Bob supplied by the UN?....Hmmm....questions remain unanswered.
8 posted on
04/18/2003 4:30:09 AM PDT by
wayoverontheright
(Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: wretchard
... which is due to expire on May 12 ...
How convenient. Problem solved. We simply allow the program to expire, and veto any attempt to renew it.
9 posted on
04/18/2003 4:33:12 AM PDT by
Asclepius
(to the barricades)
To: wretchard
*DUMP* a BUMP ! on the UN !
10 posted on
04/18/2003 4:34:45 AM PDT by
ex-Texan
(primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage!)
To: wretchard
Not mentioned was the issue of "smuggled oil". US and other countries provided Navy warships in the gulf to search for oil being smuggled out of Iraq outside the oil for food program.
What oil they found was confiscated, sold on the open market, with the proceeds going to the UN. To the best of my knowledge, the US and other countries just "donated" the warships and manpower.
To: wretchard
The whole objection of the UN for us going in a ousting Saddam Hussein physically was about the UN getting caught skimming the food for oil, oil for cash, cash for Kofi skim program
and of course the weapons for cash programs that France Germany and Russia cashed in on..
15 posted on
04/18/2003 6:11:00 AM PDT by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: wretchard
What may be very interesting are future lawsuits by the new Iraq Government to recover any left over and miss spent funds against the UN, the French and Russians. Similar to the suits against the Swiss for the Jewish bank accounts. A full and compete accounting could be trouble for the UN.
16 posted on
04/18/2003 6:45:20 AM PDT by
Lockbox
To: wretchard
Bump.
18 posted on
04/18/2003 10:51:18 AM PDT by
Shermy
To: wretchard
The Iraqi government, with its new representative in the UN, should demand that the books be opened.
19 posted on
04/18/2003 10:58:24 AM PDT by
Shermy
To: wretchard; Asclepius
21 posted on
04/18/2003 11:16:19 AM PDT by
Shermy
To: wretchard
follow the money trail,UN too???? hhmmmm.
To: wretchard
25 posted on
04/18/2003 12:36:10 PM PDT by
GailA
(Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
To: wretchard
That Claudia Rosett got this much of her research into the NYTimes is the story of the day (now yesterday) as far as I'm concerned.
26 posted on
04/18/2003 10:40:48 PM PDT by
Poincare
((not a good time for a Frenchish screen name))
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