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I wonder how this will play itself out...

Discussion in 'Alley of Lingering Sighs' started by The Shaman, Apr 15, 2005.

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    [​IMG] For quite a while I had thought Kofi Annan, for all his other faults and qualities, to be quite the patient man. For all the ridicule, disparaging and outright trash thrown at him from some people in Washington and (less so) London, he kept rather quiet. Recently, however, he had some sharper comments about the oil-for-food program himself.

    "Addressing a meeting on the United Nations and the news media on Thursday, Annan pointed to "the fact that the bulk of the money that Saddam Hussein made came out of smuggling outside the oil-for-food programme, and it was on the American and British watch".

    "Possibly they were the ones who knew exactly what was going on, and that the countries themselves decided to close their eyes to smuggling to Turkey and Jordan because they were allies."

    Annan's strong remarks come only hours after US prosecutors charged three people with scheming to pay millions of dollars in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government out of oil-for-food funds, which were meant to purchase relief supplies for Iraqis."

    While I generally think that his words hold a lot of truth and have been said countless times by many people, I kinda wonder what reaction they will produce. Will there be another round of UN-bashing, how do you think?
     
    The Shaman, Apr 15, 2005
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    Round of UN bashing? Pft. We don't have rounds. It's a year-long, 24/7 sport, and by damn it sure is popular.
     
    AMaster, Apr 15, 2005
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    Oddly enough, the latest two to be indicted were a Texan and a Bulgarian...
     
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