Update on That UN Scandal: Oil for food
From the National Review:In the growing scandal over the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, which from 1996-2003 supervised relief to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and his staff have excused themselves from any responsibility for the massive corruption involving billions in bribes and kickbacks that went on via more than $100 billion in U.N.-approved contracts for Saddam to sell oil and buy humanitarian supplies. U.N. officials have denied that this tidal wave of graft in any way seeped into their own shop, or that they even had time to notice it was out there. They were too busy making the world a better place.
That's fascinating, not least given the ties of Annan's own son, Kojo Annan, to the Switzerland-based firm, Cotecna, which from 1999 onward worked on contract for the U.N. monitoring the shipments of Oil-for-food supplies into Iraq. These were the same supplies sent in under terms of those tens of billions of dollars worth of U.N.-approved contracts in which the U.N. says it failed to notice Saddam Hussein's widespread arrangements to overpay contractors who then shipped overpriced goods to the impoverished people of Iraq and kicked back part of their profits to Saddam's regime.
Matt's Chat
The Unimportant Nobodies' Grand Poobah's SON got the contract...hmm...sounds like HALLIBURTON to me. We demand an investigation. What did Kofi know and when did he know it. This was all cooked up in New York. Lie after lie after lie after lie. Oh, the humanity...Mark's Remarks
Yet another disgraceful episode of graft and self-interest in the supposedly altruistic United Nations. While Koffi and his son were getting rich from bribes and graft with Iraq, the Iraqi people were starving, and Koffi and son were turning a blind eye to it. Shameful and disgraceful. More so given that this story has not been given any play in Big Liberal Media circles, like the networks. Yep, liberal journalists hate greed, except when their buddies get a case of it. Shameful, irresponsible. You should be reporting on this so more people know the truth: the UN has become meaningless, reckless, and groundless. It has become a house of graft, and it needs fixed. No wonder we don't want to associate with it.
