nomo wrote:Ah yes, that scary Clinton administration and the ever so scary United Nations bogeyman.
In other words, us brave and freedom lovin' Merkans can't even flee to the wilderness anymore because Clinton gave all of our parks to the UN!
I especially love all these "Facts!" without even an attempt to back them up with an appropriate cite.
So, why don't you post some facts that refute what I'm saying, useless?
I have the facts and you have your pathetic opinion, based on nothing but what others tell you to think.
Where you smoking crack when the UN got busted for corruption in the Oil-For-Food program?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-for-Food_Programme
In addition to criticism of the basic approach, the program suffered from widespread corruption and abuse. Throughout its existence, the program was dogged by accusations that some of its profits were unlawfully diverted to the government of Iraq and to UN officials. These accusations were made in many countries, including the US and Norway.
Benon Sevan of Cyprus, who headed the program, defended it, claiming that it had only a 2.2% administrative cost and that it was subject to more than 100 audits (internal and external), blaming restrictions from the Security Council for making the situation difficult. He also claimed that 90% of Iraq's population relied on the program for its monthly food basket. While Benon Sevan was in charge of the program, he stonewalled efforts to review and investigate the program. He ordered his staff that complaints about illegal payoffs should be formally filed with the whistleblower's country, making them public and allowing Iraq to bar any whistleblowers. In 2000, Dileep Nair, the UN corruption watchdog, wanted to determine the program's level of vulnerability. Sevan, along with UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette, rejected any such investigation, claiming that it would be too expensive to be worthwhile. Sevan ordered the shredding of years' worth of documents concerning the program.
In response to these criticisms, and to evidence acquired after the United States invasion of Iraq, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed a UN investigatory panel, headed by American Paul Volcker, to review the program.
Starting in April 2004, accusations were made that he skimmed profits were being used to buy influence at the UN and with Kofi Annan himself.
According to an interim report released on February 3, 2005 by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker's commission, much of the food aid supplied under the program "was unfit for human consumption". The report concluded that Sevan had accepted nearly $150,000 in bribes over the course of the program, and in 2005 he was suspended from his position at the United Nations as a result of the investigation of fraud in the program.
Did you miss the fact that
Clinton AND Bush got NAFTA ram-rodded through?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Amer ... _Agreement
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The agreement was initially pursued by conservative governments in the United States and Canada supportive of free trade, led by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and the Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The three-nation NAFTA was signed during December 1992, pending its ratification by the legislatures of the three countries. There was considerable opposition in all three countries, but in the United States
it was able to secure passage after Bill Clinton made its passage a major legislative initiative in 1993.
When will people like you wake up and see that the people at the top are ALL scumbags and criminals?
by John E. Nemo » Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:17 pm