Latest on the UN oil-for-food scandal

Post #154,195 by marlowe 5/7/04 8:45:07 AM Reply	Latest on the UN oil-for-food scandal [link\|http://nypost.com/news/worldnews/20349.htm\|Yes, they're stonewalling] Excerpt: WASHINGTON - The United Nations has sent a stern letter to an important witness in the Iraq oil-for-food investigation, demanding that he not cooperate with congressional probes of the scandal, The Post has learned. The letter - in the name of oil-for-food program chief Benon Sevan - was sent to a U.N. consultant after it was learned he had been talking to congressional investigators about allegations of wholesale corruption, officials said last night. "This particular individual is someone we have been in contact with for more than a month," said an investigator. "This letter has chilled his willingness to cooperate with the congressional investigation. This individual also appears to be genuinely frightened by the implications inherent in the letter." Congressional officials would not identify the consultant because he is a potential whistleblower. The U.N. letter, obtained by The Post, reminded the consultant that under his contract with the oil-for-food program, he "may not communicate at any time to any other person, government or authority external to the United Nations any information known to them by reason of their association with the United Nations, which has not been made public." [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/#20040507\|Home link] ---------------------------------------------------------------- DEAL WITH IT. Americans: a pack, not a herd. Never mind all the mass graves. Where's the nerve gas? "It\ufffds Warholian: in the future, all conflicts will be Vietnam for 15 minutes." - Lileks [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfire...arlowe/index.html]
Post #154,201 by boxley 5/7/04 9:41:11 AM Reply	dam they are as bad as the executive branch attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. Walter Williams questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #154,271 by dmarker 5/7/04 8:21:12 PM Reply	MARLOWE - are you capable of ... commenting on Bush's appology & Rumsfelds admissions ? Are these two guys lying lefties out to discredit the administration & the effort in Iraq ??? Do you think you might owe us here an appology for your own behaviour here ? Just wondering Doug
Post #154,280 by boxley 5/7/04 10:56:17 PM Reply	He's made points that disagree with this administration attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. Walter Williams questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #154,321 by rcareaga 5/8/04 4:30:46 PM Reply	philbot's "dissenting" points ...are without exception criticisms of the regime for being insufficiently bloodthirsty. You'll note that this week, when most folks are talking about Abu Ghraib, he wants to discuss anything but: "Oil for Food!" "Yellowcake uranium from Nigeria (Nigeria, Niger, who cares, they're all niggers)." The empty fedora will be even scarcer here this month than it was last. In the unlikely event he should deign to remark on Abu Ghraib in the course of his occasional appearances, look for variations on one or more of the main freeper talking points: No biggie; troops engaged in harmless horseplay Saddam did much worse Other Arab regimes are beastly to their prisoners Don't judge Our Brave Boys by a few bad apples Lesbians/gays/women in the military are at fault They didn't apologize for the charred mercenaries at Fallujah They didn't apologize for 9/11 Look how forthcoming we're being Hey, it's war, get over it Other rationalizations invited. It would never do to underestimate the fecundity of the philbot's delusional constructs. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Post #154,323 by boxley 5/8/04 4:49:51 PM Reply	:-) musta read yer post before posting his attempting to explain profiling doesn't require one to take a position for or against it any more than attempting to explain gravity requires one to be for or against gravity. Walter Williams questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #154,374 by Ashton 5/9/04 2:09:36 AM Reply	Of course too, the charred mercenaries happened quite a bit later; kinda hard to make a case for ~~retri-~~ pre-bution? - though empty hats do tend to gleefully intermix the fantastic with the merely maudlin. Empty hats, empty suits, leather seats in the 5000# UAVs - Murica '04 If only Bogart were around to grab back his hat\ufffd with resounding smack.
Post #154,637 by tablizer 5/11/04 2:17:40 PM Reply	Nothing like a scandle B to distract from scandle A ________________ oop.ismad.com

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