Oil Hypocrisy, US-UN

February 3rd, 2005 at 20:32 Björn Hallberg

We have all been made aware, by the US, that there were discrepancies in the so called oil-for-food program run by the UN. The Americans tried to exploit any corruption in the system to disgrace the UN and specifically Kofi Annan. It figures that someone was fishing for new American leadership to end the corruption and bring order to the republic … err … wait that was Star Wars. So maybe there is no dark sith lord behind the curtain but there are some really sly political gambits being played out here. CNN revealed yesterday that the issue of illegal oil exports may not be as black and white. And the good old United States of America was of course thoroughly involved. They tend to be when things go bump in the night.

Rep. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, one of five panels probing the oil-for-food program, told CNN the United States was "complicit in undermining" the U.N. sanctions on Iraq.

"How is it that you stand on a moral footing to go after the U.N. when they’re responsible for 15 percent maybe of the ill-gotten gains, and we were part and complicit of him getting 85 percent of the money?" Menendez asked.

"Where was our voice on the committee that was overseeing this on the Security Council?

"The reality is that we were either silent or complicit, and that is fundamentally wrong."

Former State Department diplomat Walker said, "It was almost a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ kind of policy. It was accepted in the Security Council. No one challenged it."

John Ruggie, a former senior adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said U.S. diplomats focused on assuring U.N.-approved shipments to Iraq were free of military components, and the United States felt Jordan and Turkey needed to be compensated for the adverse impact of the sanctions.

Ruggie said, "The secretary of state of the United States said each and every year that those illegal sales were in the national security interest of the United States. So it wasn’t just that the U.S. was looking the other way."

A nice sanctimonious act from the US, as always. While the decision to allow oil to slip the embargo may or may not have been right, the issue of defaming the UN on the oil-for-food program is even less honourable. It amazes me how they can live with these lies and still continue to constipate UN work. Of course, the harsh truth is that the UN is a legitimate and overall popular organization that stands in the way of total domination. The hatchet job that we have been seeing over the last decades is part of an ideology and an agenda where everything strives to correct the monumental blunder of setting up an organization (as the US once did through the League of Nations) that could rise to present opposition to global domination. There are those in the US that rue it to this day I am sure and there were many who opposed international cooperation already a century ago. When it comes to ideology, lies and the psychology of the masses, few things change over time.

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