J F: Republicans should "shut the *** up"

From: Nomen Nescio (nobody_at_dizum.com)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:50:04 +0100 (CET)

JF Mezei <jfmezei@vaxination.ca> trolled:

>rk wrote:
>> U.N. Battles Sex Abuse by Peacekeepers
>> Now, where are your complaints about the organization that you think is the
>> global government?
>
>That organisation has setup investigations to look into this problem as well
>as the stupid allegatiosn of curruption in the Oil For Food programme made by
>US politicians. Anan even made damned sure he hired a US republican to head
>that investigation so that when he does declare that there was no serious
>wrongdoing, the republicans will be forced to believe him and shut the *** up.
>
>Go to the UN web site and read up on the Oil For Food programme. They have
>tons of pages of information about how it works, the problems that were
>discovered and how they dealt with them.
>
>Iraq wasn't allowed to sell Oil. It was the UN that sold oil and then paid for
>the approved goods to be delivered to Iraq.
>
>The whole republican attacks on Anan are based on some anonymous interview of
>Hussein who was probably under duress and which resulted in allegations that
>hussein *TRIED* to bribe various countries to help suspend sanctions
>against Iraq.
>
>And while it is probably very true that Hussein tried to bribe various
>countries, there was never any country that pushed to have sanctions lifted.
>Partial lifting of sanctions was discussed however, notably medical supplies.
>This was pushed not by France, but by aid organisations such as Amnisty Intl
>and Intl Red Cross who saw the suffering inside Iraq.
>
>You also need to understand that the Oil For Food programme started in 1998,
>before which Hussein had refused offers of OFF. He had to accept because his
>country was in ruins to a point where the suffering of his people bothered
>even Hussein.
>
>What you need to understand is that Hussein didn't cheat OFF, he cheated the
>sanctions. He lived very well because he STOLE oil, shipped it by truck to
>neighbouring countries and sold in on the black market at lower price than
>world price. This happened way before OFF was instituted and probably
>continued once OFF was begun. The proceeds of those illegal sales couldn't be
>officially used, so he used the money to build personal
>homes/castles/mansions.
>
>If there was any wrongdoing in the OFF, you can then blame the OFF programme
>board, of which the USA was a member. So the blame is more likely to go to the
>USA members than to Kofi Anan.
>
>In terms of wrongdoing in Congo, why blame Anan ? If this wasn't a UN policy
>and was done by individuals and ignored by their direct supervisors, the blame
>lies at the low levels.
>
>This is quite different from a government that tells its troups to do what it
>takes to extract information from prisoners and make damned sure that the
>Defense scretary isn't told what methods they are using so he is not
>incriminated. This is such a shallow attempt at providing some deniability
>that the secretary of defense authorised torture. It may work on gullible
>americans, but the rest of teh world sees thorugh this.

Amazing that you possess all this insider "knowledge". I guess the
world leaders, in particular Annan and Hussein, must call you at your
mommy's house for daily briefings......