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Found this article to be quite interesting. What do you think about all this?

oil for food (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133212,00.html)

PS-I know it's Fox news, but I didn't find it anywhere else.

Found this article to be quite interesting. What do you think about all this?

oil for food (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133212,00.html)

PS-I know it's Fox news, but I didn't find it anywhere else.

I think it is possible. The UN is such a shadowy organization there is no telling where the money went....we do know that it did not go to the Iraqi people as was designed.

to be honest, i don't think that the U.N. would deliberatly do something that would benefit terrorists (/freedom fighters/religious radicals or whatever name you wish to give them) and the evidence they are giving is very very sketckhy to say the least. all they talk about are possibilities etc etc, and given that it is fox news, who lets face it, aren't the most independently objective (for that read politically biased, xenophobic etc etc) news service the world has ever seen.
but that still leaves the possibility, but given that saddam husseins and osama bin ladins objectives were somewhat different, by that i mean saddam wanted regional domination before anything else, and bin ladin concentrated purely on the US+allies, i think that the idea saddam would give so much money to him (bin laden) a little far fetched, when he could have used it to upgrade his forces (albeit illegally as i think there was a ban on him buying heavy and technologically advanced weapons at least...correct me if i am wrong) or other projects, by that i don't mean WMD's which, unlike FOX News would have us believe*, haven't been found in Iraq.


*I read this in a article in The Independent, which reported on a survey where close to 70% of Fox News viewers (who primairly watched that channel for the news) thought that WMD's had been found in Iraq....Not sure the date but i think it was early august....

I think it is possible. The UN is such a shadowy organization there is no telling where the money went....we do know that it did not go to the Iraqi people as was designed.


too right it didn't go where it was supposed to, but that it went straight from Hussein to bin Ladin i think is very doubtful

I think it's highly doubtful, from what I can see of the scandal it looks like only big business gained any thing from it.

I think it is possible. The UN is such a shadowy organization there is no telling where the money went...

The only thing the UN can be held responsible for is perhaps not having better judgement in who they handed out the contracts to. It's not unlike what Halliburton did during the same time period. Halliburton did it with both Iraq and Iran. The UN it's self didn't benefit from it.

The UN is a morally bankrupt, crumbling organization with growing cases of corruption, greed, and downright criminal activities at times. The Oil for Food program is a good example. Billions raked off the top by the Saddam regime and used for military and palaces while the people starved. The administrators of that program within the UN KNEW it was happening (how could they not???). They allowed it, possibly, because UN members/administrators were lining their own pockets.

The UN is impotent. It allows countries like the Sudan on the Human Rights commission. The HUMAN RIGHTS commission......and then has the audacity to attempt to take the moral high ground as the single authority on goodness in the world.

Don't get me wrong, most countries are just a corrupt in many ways, including my country, the U.S. is just as guilty in many ways, just like other countries.

The UN is a great idea. Great ideas are always messed up over time by self-serving people.