Oil for Food Investigation
The Oil for Food Program's corruption will be paid for by the Iraqis themselves with left over funds from the Oil for Food Program itself.
It's not bad enough that so much money was diverted and hidden, but what money as not extorted will now be spent on UN Bureaucrats salaries while they 'investigate' the program.
While it may be true that the the U.N. was permitted to charge Saddam a 2.2% 'handling fee' to make sure everything was going correctly and that all administrative activities required to be done by the U.N. were indeed done, it seems strange use that same fund for investigating itself. But Kofi Annan seems to like the idea of using money that could go to the Iraqis' rebuilding efforts in order to investigate the corruption surrounding why so much money never made it to the Iraqis.
In the end, no matter what figures are claimed, the U.N. is a tight ship in every sense of the word. The United Nations has lifelong bureaucrats who get to keep sealed and confidential records of accounts, names, and actions. There is no oversight committee that actually is made up of even slightly non-biased people who, when finished investigating, report to the public at-large. Instead they report to the same body that could have been the corrupt entity to begin with and then they do what they feel is appropriate.
George W. Bush's rival is in favor of more U.N. power, his rival is in favor of consulting with the U.N. even longer that Bush did, and George W. Bush's rival wants a global test because to him it is more important that corrupt regimes buy in to our security than just making us secure on our own.
Think carefully between now and voting day.
It's not bad enough that so much money was diverted and hidden, but what money as not extorted will now be spent on UN Bureaucrats salaries while they 'investigate' the program.
While it may be true that the the U.N. was permitted to charge Saddam a 2.2% 'handling fee' to make sure everything was going correctly and that all administrative activities required to be done by the U.N. were indeed done, it seems strange use that same fund for investigating itself. But Kofi Annan seems to like the idea of using money that could go to the Iraqis' rebuilding efforts in order to investigate the corruption surrounding why so much money never made it to the Iraqis.
In the end, no matter what figures are claimed, the U.N. is a tight ship in every sense of the word. The United Nations has lifelong bureaucrats who get to keep sealed and confidential records of accounts, names, and actions. There is no oversight committee that actually is made up of even slightly non-biased people who, when finished investigating, report to the public at-large. Instead they report to the same body that could have been the corrupt entity to begin with and then they do what they feel is appropriate.
George W. Bush's rival is in favor of more U.N. power, his rival is in favor of consulting with the U.N. even longer that Bush did, and George W. Bush's rival wants a global test because to him it is more important that corrupt regimes buy in to our security than just making us secure on our own.
Think carefully between now and voting day.
posted by Edward W. Prather at 09:25
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