Today's UN Rant
I haven't said much about the UN lately, because most of the news about them, I just shake my head and know it is business as usual. But this piece is too much to pass up, the UN is going reimburse the Oil-for-Food crooks from money set aside for Iraq.
Excuse Me!! The guy is a crook!! Why does the UN think he deserves any reimbursement? Especially money from the same fund he bilked millions out of. Bad move on the UN's part, they should have tossed Sevan's butt on onto the street with nothing except a lawsuit against his criminal actions. Leave it to the UN to pay a crook off with money from the bank he robbed.
And in other UN news, the Oil-for-Food-and-the-Iraqi-people-starve-while-Chirac-and-UN-crooks-make-money Scandal report is coming out, and Kofi is not let off the hook.
The bottom line is that the program was tainted by crooks making deals with Saddam and the crooks padding their Swiss Bank accounts. The report and investigation is all good and fine, BUT, will the crooks be made to pay the money back? I think that it will not happen, they will get a slap on the wrist, a scolding and allowed to keep their MILLIONS, which should be Iraq's. Also any good leader would quit if this kind of scandal happened on his watch, but will Kofi quit, I don't think so. I think it will be business as usual again at the UN, appeasing, raping and stealing.
Mr Minority
UNITED NATIONS —- The United Nations agreed to reimburse Benon Sevan, the suspended head of the U.N. Oil-for-Food program in Iraq, for legal fees he incurred during an investigation into allegations of fraud in the operation, a U.N. official said Tuesday.
Payment for Sevan's legal fees was to come out of the account containing the 2.2 percent of Iraqi oil revenues from the $64 billion program earmarked for its administration, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said.
Sevan's fees are to be reimbursed with Iraqi oil funds set aside to help administer the program. That means Iraq oil money would essentially pay for Sevan to defend himself against charges that he bilked the program.
Excuse Me!! The guy is a crook!! Why does the UN think he deserves any reimbursement? Especially money from the same fund he bilked millions out of. Bad move on the UN's part, they should have tossed Sevan's butt on onto the street with nothing except a lawsuit against his criminal actions. Leave it to the UN to pay a crook off with money from the bank he robbed.
And in other UN news, the Oil-for-Food-and-the-Iraqi-people-starve-while-Chirac-and-UN-crooks-make-money Scandal report is coming out, and Kofi is not let off the hook.
An investigative panel probing the United Nations' oil-for-food program in Iraq will for the first time directly fault Secretary-General Kofi Annan for management lapses involving his son and a controversial contractor, according to people who have seen the contents of the panel's report.
Moreover, the panel, appointed by Mr. Annan and headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, will criticize Mr. Annan for failing to spot or take action to correct systemic failures in the U.N.'s internal bureaucracy that allowed problems inside the program to continue until 2003, these people said. The report is set to be released Tuesday.
Mr. Annan is particularly criticized for failing to pay enough attention to conflicts of interest involving his son, Kojo, who worked as a consultant for a Swiss company, Cotecna Inspection Services SA, that was seeking lucrative U.N. contracts, these people said.
At the same time, the panel has concluded that there is no evidence Mr. Annan rigged the U.N.'s procurement system in the oil-for-food program, exerted undue influence over contractors or ever sought or received improper financial benefits, these people said.
The bottom line is that the program was tainted by crooks making deals with Saddam and the crooks padding their Swiss Bank accounts. The report and investigation is all good and fine, BUT, will the crooks be made to pay the money back? I think that it will not happen, they will get a slap on the wrist, a scolding and allowed to keep their MILLIONS, which should be Iraq's. Also any good leader would quit if this kind of scandal happened on his watch, but will Kofi quit, I don't think so. I think it will be business as usual again at the UN, appeasing, raping and stealing.
Mr Minority
