03/18/2004
Remembering the United Nations
It’s time to discuss the United Nations, Kaitlyn, and how it once was a shining star, an idea sprung from idealistic notions of a world united and debating differences in an international forum that benefits everyone.
I sure hope there is no United Nations when you read this, Kaitlyn.
Or, if the corrupt institution still exists in your time, that it has cleaned up its act from this year of our Lord.
‘Twas a time, Kaitlyn, that your wise grandmother was too smitten with the notion of an organization representing the entire earth in unity and peace. Which is NOT, ahem, the United Nations as it has evolved to in this year 2004.
Americans in general, Kaitlyn, are kind loving souls who willingly give of their tax dollars and young sons to many other countries for their benefit and aid against famine, tyranny and disease. Pay not attention to that man behind the curtain, Kaitlyn, who insists Americans are boorish, vain and self-centered. We most certainly are not. The United States of America has given and given greatly throughout the years, and often to countries who have brought their own problems on themselves and for no good reason. Some examples would be the Aids epidemic in Africa, the constant turmoil in Haiti, and the undefended Europe and Saudi Arabia.
There’s no good reason for Aids to be running amok anywhere on the planet in this day and age, Kaitlyn. Yet Africa has an Aids rate of one out of every four people. Haiti, a small island that could be raking in tourist dollars for its beauty, can’t put a decent government in place because its citizens are too busy practicing voodoo to bother. Europe and Saudi Arabia has chosen to eschew actually buying their own defensive weapons and training an army, instead giving the tax dollars back to citizens in socialistic schemes including subsidized health care and abbreviated work weeks.
Americans have sent billions in tax dollars to Africa, have dispatched our marines yet again to Haiti, and have bases in Europe and Saudi Arabia because Americans, hey, we work harder than anyone on the planet but hell yeah, we also defend the lazy.
At this time, Kaitlyn, the scandal brewing just below the national radar concerning the vaunted United Nations is the total corruption of Iraq’s “oil for food” program.
This program was implemented, or better schemed, by Saddamn Hussein as a way around the sanctions imposed by the UN for Saddamn’s horrific behavior. And good people like me bought into Kaitlyn.
Hey, it sounded like a good idea at the time. “The Iraqi people are starving and have no medicine because of the sanctions”, or so the mantra went. So Kofi Annan , the current Secretary General of the UN, and his buddy Saddamn, suggested an “oil for food” program. The idea was that sanctions on Iraqi oil would be lifted but only if the money that flowed in was used to buy food and medicine for the beleaguered Iraqi citizens.
Yeah, right.
So guess who’s been the recipient of all the money from the oil for food program, Kaitlyn? Obviously, Saddamn, who used the money to build more palaces because one cannot have too many palaces, Kaitlyn. Also, there’s that matter of Kofi’s son, Kaitlyn, who also raked in a handsome profit via his “consulting” job with the Swiss company responsible for administering the oil for food program. Also again, quite a few of the opponents of America’s foray into Iraq to remove Hussein and free the Iraqi people received a nice chunk of change from the corrupt oil for food program.
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The list, compiled in Arabic from documents uncovered in Iraq's oil ministry, included many of Saddam's nearest and dearest from some 50 countries, including the PLO, pro-Saddam British MP George Galloway, and French politician Charles Pasqua. (Messrs. Galloway and Pasqua have denied receiving anything from Saddam.) According to the list, first published by the Iraqi daily Al Mada in January, Mr. Sevan was another beneficiary, via a company in Panama known as Africa Middle East Petroleum Co. Ltd. (AMEP), about which we have learned quite a bit.
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The above, Kaitlyn, is an excerpt from the 3/7/04 Wall Street Journal detailing some of the recipients of money from the oil for food program.
Guess who did NOT receive any benefit from the UN imposed Iraq oil for food program, Kaitlyn? One guess: the Iraqi people!
Since the US has gotten into some of Saddamn’s palaces we’ve discovered that quite a few of the “peace activists” who criticized America’s intention to invade Iraq were not quite looking out for the good of the earth, Kaitlyn. They were, however, very much looking out for their own pocketbooks.
How despicable is this, Kaitlyn, for a world organization to be part of any scenario that keeps people enslaved and tyrannized for the good of their own cash coffers?
I remember when the national debate was upon over the oil for food program and my soccer mom self thought it was a great idea. The UN was the great champion of the idea, Kaitlyn, and Katie Courac told me every day what a wonderful idea it was.
Well hell, how could I not believe Katie Courac?
I was full of admiration over the mighty United Nations so all concerned about the Iraqi people and urged my UN representatives from America to vote in favor of the program.
What Saddamn did, Kaitlyn, was give “vouchers” to his anti-war buddies. Because there’s only a few individuals who have any great need for a hundred barrels of crude oil. However, say Saddamn gave me, Pat Fish, a voucher for 100 barrels of oil. I could sell this voucher to say, Exxon, for a handsome profit.
The beneficiaries of the oil for food program, Kaitlyn, include Kofi’s son, France, some anti-war critics in England and all sorts of nefarious types.
It was just a grand scheme, Kaitlyn, meant to get Saddamn money he could not get due to oil sanctions. All guised under the noble cause of getting food and medicine to the Iraqi people.
The United Nations indeed.
The whole corrupt lot of them need to go, Kaitlyn. And if God is in his heaven, Kaitlyn, when you read this the UN will be just a memory, barely worth a mention in the history books.
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