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While the PAY to SAY Media are saying “Nothing to See Here!”

Why Aren’t We Talking About the Oil for Food Scandal?

The only reason behind the UN idiotic resistance to imply its own resolution in Iraq is not the WAR itself, but rather the fear of finding where Sadam’s WMD ended up.

See for yourself how the elements of corruption contradict the element of discovery…

While “The Legitimacy” is that what they said we lacked in Iraq without UN authorization.

13 months into the war, the left is still talking about Bush’s illegitimate, illegal war, and the rest of us can only scratch our heads and wonder why?

But WHY?

Actually, that’s not true.

We know why the left does what it does: an insatiable lust for power. But the overwhelming pile of filth being uncovered in the war’s aftermath should be enough to give even the most rabidly partisan leftist pause.

Alas, their hatred for Bush--and their love affair with global government, ie. the UN--is just that powerful.

There is absolutely no doubt that the UN obstructed our efforts to disarm Saddam by force because they were protecting a financial asset, as well as covering up massive corruption that might extend all the way to the top.

Kojo Annan, son of Kofi, is a consultant for Cotecna Inspection SA, a Swiss company that won the UN contract to inspect all oil-for-food shipments into Iraq.

France and Russia were America’s most strident obstructers during the UN/Iraq crisis; French and Russian companies received $11 billion worth of business from Oil for Food between 1996 and 2003.

But you won’t hear any of this from the left or their agents in the media, and I think we all can figure out why: Because it makes George Bush look like he took the proper leadership role in side-stepping the UN and destroying Saddam Hussein’s terrorist regime.

Conservatives knew this from the beginning, and we knew that once we went into Iraq the excrement would be hitting the fan and the international community liberals hold in such high regard would have a lot of egg on it’s face.

Incredibly, the Oil for Food program was audited over 100 times over the course of its seven year history.

More incredibly, despite those audits, over $10 billion that was meant for the suffering Iraqi people went into the pockets of Saddam’s supporters. During those seven years, the hard left attacked America (not the UN) without relent for the sanctions that killed “a million Iraqi children”.

Not only were the sanctions the UN’s doing, but the UN’s Oil for Food program was supposed to assure the Iraqi people that they did not suffer as the world punished and attempted to contain their outlaw president.

Even more disturbing is the fact that Benon Sevan, the executive director of Oil for Food, received from Saddam Hussein a voucher for 11.5 million barrels of oil, which would yield a profit of between $575,000 and $3.5 million, depending on market conditions.

The corruption is so immense and so damning that we should be making an apartment complex out of the UN’s New York headquarters right now. Henry Hyde (R-IL);
who will chair an Oil for Food Senate hearing later this month, called the Oil for Food debacle a scandal without precedent in U.N. history.

Why aren’t we talking about it?

It’s kind of difficult to take seriously John Kerry’s vision of progressive internationalism when the very embodiment of internationalism is a corrupt, poisoned mass of tyrants, despots, and nations who claim to love freedom and human rights, yet exploit and prolong the suffering of the innocent Iraqi population in order to line their pockets.

The left’s hatred of George Bush, and desperation to get John Kerry into office, is so deeply rooted that even a scandal of this magnitude is not important enough to bring to light because they know it proves George Bush and American conservatives right about the UN, and it makes the left look incredibly stupid and naive.

Conservatives in America aren’t always right, but there have been fewer occasions where we were more right than we were about the UN.

How deep does the rabbit hole go? Oil for Food’s beneficiaries include:

· Iraqi American businessman Shaker Al-Khaffaji, who put up $400,000 to produce a film by ex-U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, which aimed to discredit America’s case against Iraq.

· British Labor MP George Galloway, a staunch anti-war advocate, recieved 19.5 million barrels of Saddam’s oil.

· Leith Shbeilat, chairman of the anti-corruption committee of the Jordanian Parliament, received 15.5 million barrels. (Can you say irony?)

· Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua; 12 million barrels.

· Patrick Maugein, oil executive and financial backer of French President Jacques Chirac; 25 million barrels.

· Jean-Bernard Merimee, former French Ambassador to the United Nations; 11 million barrels.

· Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri; 10 million barrels

· Syrian businessman Farras Mustafa Tlass, son of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass; 6 million barrels.

Beyond the graft and the bribes, 87% of the contracts for delivering the food and medicine the Iraqi people actually did recieve were overpriced.

It would almost be funny if you didn’t take into account the tens of millions of Iraqis who suffered because of it, or the fact that for years it was America who was blamed for their suffering.

On behalf of all Americans, I await Noam Chomsky’s apology.

Howard Zinn should be right behind him.

Ramsey Clarke.

Any and all liberals who ripped Bush for his pre-emptive unilateralism.

However if you still wondering where are Sadam’s WMD?

May I suggest to look under GOOFY ANNAN’s PILLOW…

[JIredell]

Corruption cannot be overlooked or can it be stopped. If they didnt have the power to corrupt they wouldnt be in a position of power in the first place. I agree with you that the personal benifactors should burn in hell for depriving the Iraqi ppl of impt things but if should it not be our allies recieving it rather than our enemies. What does america care as long as they dont lose money they dont fuss.

[human]

JIredell wrote: Corruption cannot be overlooked or can it be stopped. If they didnt have the power to corrupt they wouldnt be in a position of power in the first place. I agree with you that the personal benifactors should burn in hell for depriving the Iraqi ppl of impt things but if should it not be our allies recieving it rather than our enemies. What does america care as long as they dont lose money they dont fuss.


Actually, the only reason I can see now that hold this scandal in the dark is the election, but sure enough it will be out in the open after November...