No wonder the UN and Kofi Annan were so against invading Iraq. It so disgusting that the UN and Kofi Annan himself would authorize the buying of equipment such as listed below, while they are at the same time making meaningless noises about the "poor, poor, starving Iraqis". Tear the UN down already, for all the credibility they have left. I doubt if I would trust them to feed my dogs when I am on vacation - actually, I wouldn't!
Oil, Food and a Whole Lot of Questions
...About a year ago, in the name of expediency, Mr. Annan was given direct authority to sign off on all goods not itemized on a special watch list. Yet shipments with Mr. Annan's go-ahead have included so-called relief items such as "boats" and boat "accessories" from France and "sport supplies" from Lebanon (sports in Iraq having been the domain of Saddam's Hussein's sadistic elder son, Uday).(link via Instapundit)......
It is impossible to find out for certain. The quantities of goods involved in shipments are confidential, and almost all descriptions on the contract lists made public by the United Nations are so generic as to be meaningless. For example, a deal with Russia approved last Nov. 19 was described on the contract papers with the enigmatic notation: "goods for resumption of project." Who are the Russian suppliers? The United Nations won't say. What were they promised in payment? That's secret.
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Of course, with so little paperwork made public, it is impossible to say whether there has been any malfeasance so far — but I found nothing that would seem to contradict Gen. Tommy Franks's comment that the system should have been named the "oil-for-palace program." Why, for example, are companies in Russia and Syria — hardly powerhouses in the automotive industry — listed as suppliers of Japanese vehicles? Why are desert countries like Libya, Syria and Saudi Arabia delivering powdered milk?
And then there is this menacing list of countries that supplied "detergent": Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria, Yemen and Sudan. Maybe all that multisourced soap was just a terrific bargain for doing the laundry.
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Let’s start calling Secretary-General Kofi Annan “Mr. Two Percent”.
Anyway, do you need anymore evidence that the United Nation is nothing more than a den of thieves?
Posted by: Niraj at April 25, 2003 2:16 PM
Of course, we can’t - remember how Nelson Mandela said that Bush was defying UN just because Annan was black? We will all be called racists for seeing through Annan’s shenanigans. It is disgusting to see people you hailed as heroes growing up all fall from grace in front of your own eyes……
Congrats on the “instalink”!
Posted by: Shanti at April 25, 2003 2:24 PM
Yeah, Also its interesting to note the fraud conviction of Mrs Madela as reported here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/94567.html
As instapundit says countried like Canada rely on UN when it is needed and throw them out when it is not so convenient (look at Canada’s lashing out on the WHO)
Posted by: Ender at April 25, 2003 7:24 PM
Oh yeah, Winnie Mandela and her thieving past, but of course, Nelson Mandela very conveniently divorced her and pretended he had absolutely nothing to do with that.
Posted by: Shanti at April 26, 2003 8:12 AM