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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (36480)	7/20/2005 1:34:04 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

You must not be paying attention to the Oil-for-Food scandal or what the Iraq Survey Group has discovered. China was also on the take. Politicians, journalists & influential businessmen in numerous countries were being bribed. And so was the UN itself. That completely evades the question I raised: Where's everyone else? I will not even ATTEMPT to argue that the UN is not corrupt or that it should control actions of nations. It is largely a collection of 2-bit dictatorships. That modern democracies should have to abide by it's "resolutions" is an absurd idea. This is like saying Idi Amin should be our Chief Justice. BTW, Saddam only needed one veto on the UN Security council. And France said they would supply it REGARDLESS OF ANY FINDINGS OF THE WEAPONS INSPECTORS OR ANYTHING ELSE! How such a country can claim to be civilized is beyond me. But it wasn't just bribes to end the sanctions & protect Saddam from the US enforcing the terms of the UN Resolutions. He wanted to alter public perception so he could return to his old ways & keep what he was successfully hiding from the inspectors. Inspectors were back in Iraq at the time the war started. The usual problems were occurring in spite of Saddam's pledge that they would have free access. There were often days between the time they decided they wanted to inspect a facility and when they were let in- -days that could be used to move incriminating materials.