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PARIS (Reuters) - A senior French politician said on Friday he had been implicated in an oil-for-food scam in Iraq in an effort to discredit President Jacques Chirac, a fierce opponent of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. A U.S. Senate report on Thursday said Senator Charles Pasqua -- once a close Chirac associate and former interior minister in a conservative government -- had received an allocation of 11 million barrels of oil with the personal approval of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The oil-for-food program allowed Iraq to sell limited oil supplies to buy basic goods and negotiate its own...

Former President Bill Clinton sat down with Diane Sawyer of ABC News for a personal interview recently. They discussed many topics abou this personal life and his future ambitions. In true Clinton form, the former President did not fully dispel rumors of his interest in the UN Secretary General position. "There have been rumors that Clinton would like to be secretary general of the United Nations, or head of the World Bank. Asked about these, the former president said, 'Once you've been president, if you want another job, those are about the only two that you know that might be...

If there ever was any doubt about what a useless, morally bankrupt organization the UN is, let these remarks by Kofi Annan put them to rest. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had an ominous warning as he opened the UN’s 59th General Assembly. “Today the rule of law is at risk around the world,” Annan said. “Again and again, we see laws shamelessly disregarded.” Annan said many examples of this can be found in Sudan’s bloody conflict, the use of force against Palestinians. He pointed to deaths of civilians in Iraq who were “massacred in cold blood” while relief workers,...

Hello I am formulating the following petition which I will send to the heads of government and to Kofi Annan and the UN for the end of this week or when the vote takes place. Please can you help with this as I am aiming at getting as many different signatures as possible for this and sending in an email to them as our first official campaign by the Freedom Institute. Any advice would be gratefully received. As well as some additional help getting the documents translated at least into French. Jonathan Williams Editor Freedom Institute www.freedominstitute.ca Should you want...

Lately, I have found myself so fed up and angry with the blowhards at the United Nations, that I can hardly see straight. Seeing this gang of lilliputians trying to tie down this nation while they themselves, are swimming in waters over their heads, got me thinking. I did some research on Kofi Annon, the leader of these little people. Here is what I discovered about Annon and Ghana, the third world country he comes from. Granted, he has a masters degree from M.I.T. but; there is nothing in Annon's bio that indicates that he is qualified to make pronouncements...