Kofi Annan's Hypocrisy

[painthorse]

Just seen this story the link is here
Cofi is urging the UN Security Council to take swift action in Sudan's Dafur region . Fighter's reponsible for the violence and intimidation have displaced 1.6 million people and resulted in more than 50,000 death's .

There are strong indications that war crimes and crimes against humanity have occured in Dufar on a large and systematic scale ,

he said in a monthly report to the Security Council . Also mentioned in this artical is the threating of sanctions against the country's oil production .

I will agree that the Genocide in Dafur need's to be stoped immediately .
Maybe I am reading to much into this but it sure as hell look's a lot like another country that the UN had sanctions against for about ten years . The clincher is the last sentence that I pulled from the artical .
Is the UN looking for another cash cow now that Iraq's oil for food program has dried up ?
Would we still be hearing about this brutality if Dufar's oil industry had to pay the same fees to the UN that Iraq paid ? Sorry guy's but this one reeks to me . I genuinely hope that I am wrong about this .

Chris

[Enmore]

This Darfur thing has been going on for months and months now. The problem is that "Swift Action" to the UN means "ignore, prevaricate, delay, talk, raise a resolution condemning something, talk some more, wring hands, call for swift action, talk, get America and Britain to do something". Well, America and Britain are a little busy right now, so someone else is going to have to do something this time. Don't hold your breath though.

BTW, the chances of Koffi Annan serving a historic third term are pretty much extinct. He's up for re-election in 2006 and I think we can take it for granted that the US will veto his re-apointment. Clinton did the same to Boutros Boutros-Ghali (so useless they named him twice) I recall.

[painthorse]

^^^^^^^ Agreed Enmore . I still feel that alot of the hand wringing is due to the possibility of the UN - Cofi seeing large dollar sign's in the shape of administration fees . Maybe after his term at the UN he can be relocated to the Dufar region .

Chris

[fireman_x]

^^^^^^^ Agreed Enmore . I still feel that alot of the hand wringing is due to the possibility of the UN - Cofi seeing large dollar sign's in the shape of administration fees . Maybe after his term at the UN he can be relocated to the Dufar region .

Chris

the "oil for food scandal" has not been proven, not to mention if your talking about somebody being bribed with oil money you should look no further than Cheney and Halliburton.

[Andrew LB]

the "oil for food scandal" has not been proven,

Yeah. It pretty much has.

not to mention if your talking about somebody being bribed with oil money you should look no further than Cheney and Halliburton.

Proof? Link?

[fireman_x]

Yeah. It pretty much has.

Do you have a link, proving other wise, no you do not, because there is no conclusive evidence. Even if it turns out to be true, the was it was set up it was bound to be corrupt. You talk about how it was so horrible[What Saddam did to his people], yet given the chance to stop a new massacre the only thing the US does is threaten to impose sanctions.

Proof? Link?

I find it ironic that you ask for a link when the last two or three claims you have made were not backed up at all.

Many of these illegal acts occured during Cheney's time as CEO and carried into his Vice-Presidency.

Cheney has falsely claimed that he severed all ties with the company in 2000. "I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for three years," he said, on the Sept. 14 edition of NBC's "Meet the Press." Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) showed Cheney's claim to be a lie, with a Congressional Research Service report demonstrating that the stock options and the deferred salary that he is receiving from Halliburton, in fact, constitute a substantial financial interest. The CRS report, released by Launtenberg on Sept. 25, states that a deferred salary "is a not a retirement benefit or a payment from a third party escrow account, but rather an ongoing corporate obligation paid from company funds. If a company were to go under, the beneficiary could lose the deferred salary." Cheney also holds 433,333 unexercised Halliburton stock options, on which he has signed an agreement to donate any profits to charity. The report says, "Should Halliburton's stock price increase over the next few years, the Vice President could exercise his stock options for a substantial profit, benefitting not only his designated charities, but also providing Halliburton with a substantial tax deduction."

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/200...lliburton.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4163810
http://www.americanprogress.org/site...RJ8OVF&b=29636
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/tex...2004-49776.asp

[AMDScooter]

Your entire thread is a joke, the "oil for food scandal" has not been proven, not to mention if your talking about somebody being bribed with oil money you should look no further than Cheney and Halliburton.

Geez, another liberal too blind with hate of the current administration to see logic or accept the hard facts about the food/oil/UN debacle.

[fireman_x]

What?? You live in a cave?? Geez, another liberal too blind with hate of the current administration to see logic or accept the hard facts about the food/oil/UN debacle.

I'm not a liberal, it's only you konservatives that ignore facts.

[painthorse]

Your entire thread is a joke, the "oil for food scandal" has not been proven, not to mention if your talking about somebody being bribed with oil money you should look no further than Cheney and Halliburton.

fireman_x thank's for your trolling input . True that the oil for food scandal hasn't been proven yet . Interesting though that the UN has 55 internal audit's of the oil for food program since this story broke . I suppose that the Al Mada list which contain's 270 individuals , political entities , and businesses from all over the world that received the oil voucher's mean's nothing as well . Surely the congressional investigations of the UN oil for food program will have to bogus as well . While I'm at it must mean nothing that the GAO estimates that Saddam made 10.1 billion dollars in illegal profit's from oil for food . I guess it must have been monopoly money that was found in those metal case's in Iraq . Nahhh hell I must have dreamt all of this .

Chris

[fireman_x]

fireman_x thank's for your trolling input . True that the oil for food scandal hasn't been proven yet . Interesting though that the UN has 55 internal audit's of the oil for food program since this story broke . I suppose that the Al Mada list which contain's 270 individuals , political entities , and businesses from all over the world that received the oil voucher's mean's nothing as well . Surely the congressional investigations of the UN oil for food program will have to bogus as well . While I'm at it must mean nothing that the GAO estimates that Saddam made 10.1 billion dollars in illegal profit's from oil for food . I guess it must have been monopoly money that was found in those metal case's in Iraq . Nahhh hell I must have dreamt all of this .

Chris

the truth is I'm not trying to defend the UN at all. You conservatives can do nothing but complain about the UN and pathetically try and defend that disaster currently known as Iraq. Even if the "Oil for Food" scandal is proven it would bring back the people who died unnecessarily, so what is your point? The UN, just like any other governing body will have corruption, but you still will not be able to justify the war in Iraq no matter how much you try.