Oil for FRAUD...

[Skeptic]

This was the president who invaded another country on fraudulent premises.

Three points.

1). Repeating this leftist mantra about "Bush lied" won't make it true.

2). As usual (starting with the second post in this thread) your entire "argument" in this thread is:

Somebody: "The UN implicated in the largest bribery scandal in history."
You: "Bush is evil".

...which is a complete irrelevancy,

3). Even if it WERE true that Bush lied about Iraq... well, let's put it this way. Who is worse: someone who uses "fraudulent premises" to removea bloodthirsty dictator from power... or an organization that did its absolute utmost to keep said dictator in power for over a decade (after he invaded another country for no reason at all) because they were recieving billions in bribes from him?

 

[Skeptic]

The UN was against the war in Iraq because top officials at the UN had an financial stake in Iraq.

I am shocked--SHOCKED!--that a program run by unelected and unaccountable beaurocrats to help a mideastern dictator, overseered by the world's #1 antisemitic and anti-USA debating club for despots, has been implicated in corruption.

Who would have guessed?

 

[zenith-nadir]

Even if it WERE true that Bush lied about Iraq... well, let's put it this way. Who is worse: someone who uses "fraudulent premises" to removea bloodthirsty dictator from power... or an organization that did its absolute utmost to keep said dictator in power for over a decade (after he invaded another country for no reason at all) because they were recieving billions in bribes from him?

The Australian answer is obviously B.

 

[crimresearch]

Now Z-N...we have rational Australians here on the forums....
at least until Zep allows his evil twin to get to the keyboard again...

 

[zenith-nadir]

Annan Suspends Oil-For-Food Program Chief - Mon, Feb 07, 2005

UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan suspended the head of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq and a senior official who dealt with contracts, following an independent investigation that accused them of misconduct, a spokesman said Monday.

Benon Sevan, who was in charge of the $64 billion humanitarian program, and Joseph Stephanides, who heads the U.N. Security Council Affairs Division, were told Friday that they had been suspended with pay, spokesman Fred Eckhard said.

And it only took years and America finding the incriminating documents in Iraq for it to happen....go figure...

[edited to add]

Had there been no invasion they would still be stealing money under the UN's nose today.

 

[Tmy]

What about all those people protesting in the streets of (insert country name here)? Where they all on the take?

Maybe these countries were against the invasion because their citizens were against it. Politicians tend to try to make the public happy.

 

[zenith-nadir]

What about all those people protesting in the streets of (insert country name here)? Where they all on the take?

90% of the people protesting in the streets could give a crap about Iraqis, if they actually did care they had 40 years to protest against Saddam oppression....yet they never did...go figure. I draw your attention to the lack of protests against insurgents killing Iraqis today....most of those protests were staged events Tmy.

Maybe these countries were against the invasion because their citizens were against it. Politicians tend to try to make the public happy.

Unless they are pocketing millions in secret skimming schemes that is....