August 16, 2005
Excellent oil-for food salvo
It's usually redundant for me to link and comment on a Mark Steyn piece; as if people out there are saying "Oh, really? You think I should read this? Mark who? Is it good or something?" Most of you probably know already that if it says Mark Steyn at the top, it's worth reading, and have probably read it already.
Well, don't miss this one on Oil-for-Food. If you're like me there's often a temptation to see a piece about OFF and think, yeah, this UN guy was this other dude's accountant's pool boy who was partners in a shell company with that guy who was supposed to inspect Qusay's pipeline...zzz...um, KOFI LIED IRAQIS DIED, right? Okay, moving on...
Don't do that this time. Steyn wraps it up nicely and here 's some of the good part all in one paragraph:
By happy coincidence, Under-Secretary-General Strong and Kojo Annan were both appointed, on the same day, to the board of a company called Air Harbour Technologies, a business registered in the Isle of Man and whose directors also included Michael Wilson, the guy under investigation for the UN office renovation contract in Geneva. It's a small world, at least at the UN. AHT was wholly owned by the son of Sheikh Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister. Yamani Jnr was putting together a $60 million oil deal with Saddam, and seemed to think the presence of UN officials and offspring on his board might help him.
Oh, and that one guy (benon Sevan) who claimed he got all that money as a gift from his elderly aunt? I didn't realize this, but his aunt isn't around to contradict him because she fell down an elevator shaft and died.
Who goes out like that? I've never actually heard of that happening, outside of Raymond Chandler nvels and as a throwaway line in The Usual Suspects. What, would it have been too subtle to have her shoot herself in the head six times with a double-barrelled shotgun?
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There's one other instance of a well known figure meeting their end down an elevator shaft.
Rosalyn Shays of LA Law (played by Diana Muldaur), who was doing Leyland MacKenzie who was the chief partner of the firm. They were leaving work late, and she turns and drops down the open shaft.
Hey, it happens.
Posted by: lawhawk at August 16, 2005 08:04 AM (AcoYr)
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I this post has nothing to do with artical but I thought it was inportant.
"MASSACHUSETTS MAY REQUIRE MENTAL SCREENINGS FOR RETURNING SOLDIERS"
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3.htm
This is an out rage what role did kerry and kenedy play in this legilastion
the names of those creaded this legilastion need to be publizid
Futhermore, is there a fund to help Iraqy war veterans run for office?
Obviously they are not represenned in the state of MASSACHUSETTS.
So when our solder return from the war thay are thanked for risking there life and limbs for the good old U S of A
and by the way you are going to be staying at the funny farm for
30 days of observation to see if you are mentally sound and politacly correct Komrad
Posted by: Zebrab57 at August 16, 2005 10:27 AM (wWAmZ)
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I'm amazed at how many people are not concerned about the OFF scam. When I ask why they aren't completely outraged the response I've gotten most often is that pro-war people care only because it justifies their war. o_O
In other words, this particular graft and corruption deserves little more than a yawn because if they express outrage, they're afraid they may sound pro-war too?
Posted by: Oyster at August 16, 2005 10:57 AM (fl6E1)
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Not just pro-war, Oyster, but anti-UN. Double blasphemy.
Posted by: See-Dubya at August 16, 2005 01:41 PM (DWLkd)
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Okay, just finished Steyn's piece. Good that he put it in a "nutshell". Most get their information on it in dribs and drabs the way the media drags their feet on this issue. They can't so easily treat the media's sporadic bits of information on this as separate, unrelated issues. The big picture is ugly, very ugly.
Posted by: Oyster at August 16, 2005 02:08 PM (fl6E1)
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