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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (700542)	9/7/2005 10:17:39 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"He's not offering...." UN disaster relief is a series of AGENCIES and multi-national personell... not a "man". "The man who let the murderer Saddam rule ruthlessly just to collect oil money for food." LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! First of all... NOBODY 'let' Saddam rule, except for SADDAM. (Unless you want to maybe count the Reagan administration who pulled Saddam's bacon out of the fire, likely preventing his overthrow near the end of the Iran/Iraq Gulf War... or maybe the Bush I administration who halted the Desert Storm drive on Baghdad just a few days short of toppling the dictator....) It's laughable that you think a UN Secretary General (answerable to the UN's membership, and most especially the Security Council) would have the power to 'let Saddam rule', LOL! What was he going to do? Snap his fingers and say "you are out now"? If it was THAT easy the US would have done it a long time before. (Regarding the Secretary General, I am reminded of Stalin's famous comment about the Pope: "how many armies does he have?") As far as "collect oil money for food", you DID READ Volker's report, just out, where he pointed out that the BULK of Saddam's authorized oil sales under the sanctions regime BYPASSED ALL UN AGENCY CONTROLS, and were authorized directly by the Security Council --- including the US, of course... (No doubt fellow SC members Russia, China, France, etc., had their own financial interests they were helping, but there were a few US oil companies in on the slush as well.) And that Security Council members signed off on (thus: were aware of) these contracts. Looks like you are just looking for a whipping boy to blame everything on, Sandy... while avoiding unpleasant realities about the bulk of the oil sales.