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Sunday, December 12, 2004
- - - - - The UN Counterattacks! - - - - -
Before you read the following, or follow THIS LINK, you are strongly urged to remove pointed objects from your reach.
Mr. Kim du Toit defines RCOB, or "Red Curtain of Blood" as an event that is so outrageous that a red haze floats in front of one's eyes, probably as a result of one's blood pressure spraying right out of one's ears.
Here's the full text of the story:
By Gerald Nadler Associated Press Writer
Published: Dec 10, 2004
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A U.N. panel critical of how the U.S.-led coalition authority in Iraq spent billions of dollars from the U.N. oil-for-food program and other sales of Iraqi oil will issue its report Monday, an official with the world body said.
The U.N. Security Council set up the Iraqi Development Fund to help the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority administer Iraq. The CPA administered Iraq from March 20, 2003, invasion to its dissolution June 28, 2004, when it handed the reins to the Iraqi interim government.
The development fund consisted of money from CPA sales of Iraqi oil, millions of dollars remaining from the U.N. Iraqi oil-for-food program and Iraqi assets that were dispersed worldwide.
A panel created by the Security Council - the International Advisory and Monitoring Board for Iraq - has accused the CPA of poorly managing Iraqi money and failing to stem corruption quickly enough.
In all, the CPA said it spent $20 billion from the Iraq Development Fund, and none from an $18.4 billion allocation from Congress.
Of the $20 billion the CPA spent, $11.1 billion came from oil sales.
The auditing panel also said the CPA gave $1.8 billion to Halliburton, a Houston-based oil services conglomerate, in no-bid contracts. It also said the ruling coalition authority was unable to track the money coming in or going out.
The U.N. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the U.N. auditing panel will issue a report Monday.
The oil-for-food program, instituted to help Iraqis cope with sanctions, began in December 1996 and ended in November.
In the program's seven years, Iraq exported $65 billion of oil and some $46 billion of that revenue went to the oil-for-food program. Saddam Hussein's government determined which goods it would buy, who would provide them and who could buy Iraqi oil.
AP-ES-12-10-04 2020EST
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Now then, will someone please tell me why the United States should pay any attention whatsoever to a United Nations Audit of what we did or did not do with "Oil for Food" money? This "audit" is from an organization that has proven itself to be corrupt from the office of the Secretary General on down?
Some time ago, I wrote that I would reluctantly be in favor of the UN headquarters remaining in New York City, just so's we could keep an eye on them.
I've changed my mind.
Let's invite that corrupt and incompetent bunch of irresponsible "diplomats" to leave our country. Let them go to Sweden, or Switzerland, or Sierra Leone, or Sri Lanka, or anywhere away from the United States.
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