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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (34600)	5/17/2005 9:33:39 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (2) of 90947

Here we go again! Put John Bolton in NOW! May 17, 2005 Cost over charge of $700 Million on UN renovation It's either graft or stupidity THE UNITED NATIONS has been in the news of late. As usual, most of the news is negative: evidence suggesting that one or more members of the Security Council were bribed by Saddam; an inability to deal effectively with various crises in Africa; the embarrassing presence of nations such as Iran, Syria, Libya, Zimbabwe, and Saddam's Iraq on U.N. commissions on human rights, proliferation and weapons of mass destruction; the oil for food scandal. In the midst of these controversies, the United Nations is proceeding with plans to upgrade its Manhattan headquarters. The organization's headquarters at Turtle Bay were completed in 1950 and renovated in the 1970s. The United Nations now believes that another renovation project is necessary, and has prepared a $1.2 billion plan to carry out the work. The United Nations has said its plans to renovate its headquarters at Turtle Bay will cost $1.2 billion. That strikes Donald Trump as far too much. "The United Nations is a mess," the developer said yesterday, "and they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars unnecessarily on this project." Trump has gone further, expressing the view that the expenses projected by the U.N. can only be the result of graft or incompetence. With a cost overrun like that one it could only be because Kojo is the contractor. Doesn't the United Nations put anything out to bid? Must it always go to good friends like the OFF banking business that was given by Mr. Boutros-Boutros Ghali to his good friends BNP Paribas with out a bid. Does it always have to be done in the back room with a handshake, wink and a nod. Why can't the UN Secretariat uses standard practices, why do they have to chisel and steal. This is the organization that is to good for Mr. Bolton? [Hat tip to Robert] acepilots.com

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