U.N. Officials Bribed by Saddam?

[mburbank]

"It's no different than Max posting every Iraq-related article with the word "Halliburton"
AB
-While I delight in doing that, I think there's almost no paralell here at all. The oil for food program was corrupt almost from the get go. Kevin points out correctly that the far left objected to it on these very grounds and pointed out that sanctions weren't really sanctions when every state involved including the US (see your list) was exploiting them for financial gain. At no time did Republican or Democratic administrations see this as investigation worthy until now. You are being hoodwinked if you think this issue is in any way new, and you can prove it to yourself with Google, or you can go to your library and used more dvanced search technology and get really depressed.

Halliburton's corruption doesn't have as long a history, and it's corruption that I point out is directly connected to a war a little over a year old.

If out of the blue a decade from now, I suddenly started posting Halliburton/ Iraq articles with great shock as evidence of why it is suddenly clear that Neocon Oil Barrons, who are being portrayed as saintly and incoruptable, should not in fact be trusted; THEN you'd have a paralell.

It is not news that the UN has serious problems with corruption. Every member state has problems with corruption to one degree or another, and the UN is made up of it's member states. NOTE: THIS DOES NOT MEAN I AM PRO CORRUPTION!

Here's the thing, though. The UN is an international organization. Corrupt, problemtic, disfunctional and international. The US? Not as corrupt, but not even the tiniest bit international. If the UN ran Iraqs transition to sovreignighty, it would be difficult to argue that the US was hand picking puppets. If the US runs the transition to... you know, the folks W said we'd here about real soon during his press conference? It might look that way. Hell, call me cynical, it might even BE that way.

What's your time limmit on Iraq before it's officially a quagmire? Wht's the body count? Just ours, we don't do civillian death tolls. Does the fact that this war had nothing to do with 9/11 and was sold to us on false pretenses have nothing to do with it? Even if you think this war is totally unquagmire like and completely justified, do you think the administration planned well? Are you not troubled by a deadline two months from now that has no strategy in place? Would YOUR boss let you get away with that?



I'm thinking of making a signature with the following lines. I, A LIBERAL, DIDN'T LIKE CLINTON. I LIKE HILLARY BETTER THAN BILL, BUT I DON'T WANT HER TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. I THINK THE UN HAS SERIOUS PROBLEMS AND I WISH THERE WERE A BETTER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION. I'M AGAINST TERRORISM. I THINK DEMOCRATS ARE THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS. I THINK DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN CORRUPT AND DONE BAD THINGS. I BET KERRY HAS SOME SKELETONS IN HIS CLOSET AND IS LYING ABOUT SOME THINGS.