Markreich
23-10-2004, 00:59
It has recently been reported that Saddam Hussein was able to "subvert" the $60 billion U.N. program to generate an estimated $2 billion in revenue outside U.N. control from 1997-2003, and perhaps as much as $11 billion since 1990.
The report futher alleges that nations such as France, Russia, and China were in effect paid off by this scheme, making it impossible to get the security council to act against Iraq breaking UN resolutions.
(http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20041011/a_embargoqna11.art.htm)
Does this change your opinion of how the UN conducted it's business with Saddam's Iraq prior to the March 2003 invasion?
This is NOT a debate on if the invasion was legal, etc. Please keep it to just the UN's role pre-invasion.
The report futher alleges that nations such as France, Russia, and China were in effect paid off by this scheme, making it impossible to get the security council to act against Iraq breaking UN resolutions.
(http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20041011/a_embargoqna11.art.htm)
Does this change your opinion of how the UN conducted it's business with Saddam's Iraq prior to the March 2003 invasion?
This is NOT a debate on if the invasion was legal, etc. Please keep it to just the UN's role pre-invasion.