U.S. Right Uses Oil-For-Food to Hit UN

Here is a defense of the UN by by former Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali. This is the fellow that as said that the US is a "totalitarian regime". I doubt that Boutros Boutros-Ghali would know a free society it it bit him. In the Reuters article, Boutros-Ghali had this to say:

""The American right has seized this scandal as a weapon against the United Nations. It's a scandal created ad hoc. It's not me asserting this, it's clear to everyone," he was quoted as saying in Italy's La Repubblica newspaper on Thursday. "

What is clear to most is that the UN is a scandal plagued and inept organization, supported by leftists, despots and assorted other socialists.

"Asked if he would testify in the inquiry into the scandal commissioned by Annan, Boutros-Ghali said: "Yes. I've prepared a defense document. I also want to dispel any doubt: It has nothing to do with me.

"The program was approved on Dec. 5, (1996). On Dec. 22, I had left the (post as UN secretary general)," he said."

Why the need for a defense? Of course, where there is smoke, there is usually fire.

"An interim report by Volcker's team last month found lax UN controls, a shortage of audit staff and political favoritism when the program was put in place in 1996. It found no pilfering of money from the UN administration of the program.

The best-documented figures to date show Saddam Hussein's government earned close to $2 billion from illicit trade and surcharges through the program, according to CIA adviser Charles Duelfer last September.
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Time will tell how deep this scandal goes and who in the UN was involved. - Sailor