Oil For Food, Chapter 2
Remote Observer
13-06-2007, 20:48
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6750137.stm
What a great idea :rolleyes::rolleyes:. Maybe this time, I can get involved, and make a few billion, and even if caught by the international press, you will all ignore it (I may have to pay a few of you off), and call my detractors "insane Bushites who lie about the UN".
As for having learned lessons, the only thing we've managed to learn about the UN over the past few years is that it is corrupt from one end to the other, and not just in Oil For Food.
This would just be more of the same.
UN Protectorates
13-06-2007, 20:51
*Buzzzzz*
Wrong! The Oil for Food scandal had nothing to do with UN officials, and everything to do with American Oil companies.
Remote Observer
13-06-2007, 20:52
*Buzzzzz*
Wrong! The Oil for Food scandal had nothing to do with UN officials, and everything to do with American Oil companies.
It had everything to do with Kofi Annan's son. And UN officials who were bribed. And other EU companies that participated in the bribing (including French oil executives).
Not just American oil companies...
It had everything to do with Kofi Annan's son. And UN officials who were bribed. And other EU companies that participated in the bribing (including French oil executives).
Not just American oil companies...
Not Just
Its a considerably a better idea than say ....invading the place, then letting a bunch of halfarsed crackpots systematically dismantle the infrastructure.
Oh yes, an oil for food scheme is so necessary, because Sudan has few other ways of buying food on the open market. They're so poor, so destitute, they can't even wage wars, or build middle classes. Worst of all, no one wants to trade with them. Not even the Chinese.
UN Protectorates
13-06-2007, 22:45
For anyone interested in finding out the truth about the Oil-For-Food program read the independant inquiry report:
Volcker Report (http://www.iic-offp.org/documents/InterimReportMar2005.pdf)
It finds that the money squandering was perpetrated by individual government officials and private companies, not UN authorities.
The entire Oil-For-Food witch hunt was merely an attempt by the Bush Administration to "punish" opponents of the Iraq war, when it looked like the Iraq war had been the cake-walk they hoped it would be.
The UN, George Galloway... Everyone accused was completely innocent of the charges, and the mud was merely flinged back at the investigators.
Remote Observer
14-06-2007, 16:26
I guess that explains the convictions for bribery of people who bribed UN officials...
I guess you'll close your eyes and pretend that didn't happen.
Uh, at $70/bbl, Sudan isn't going to do an oil-for-food program, especially not when the Chinese will simply buy it for the market price and invest in their country. The plan only works when everyone supports sanctions and oil is so cheap that they would be hard-pressed to get a better deal for it on the free market.
I guess that explains the convictions for bribery of people who bribed UN officials...
I guess you'll close your eyes and pretend that didn't happen.
Bribed for....?