mercredi, février 16, 2005
conspiracy!
Nothing disgusts me more than certain American politicians making a big fuss over things that are only a glimpse of the types of scandal that their own government is involved in. Today, a senate sub-committee is "trying to bring down Kofi Annan by bringing down his son". There are questions about the involvement of Kojo Annan in some questionable deals involving the former oil-for-food program in Iraq. Maybe some companies made money illegally.
What I want to know is, how is this a bigger deal than, say, Halliburton winning billions of dollars in contracts in Iraq without a competitive bidding process? How is this a bigger deal than the fact that after repeating ad nauseum that Iraq needed to be invaded because Saddam was building weapons of mass destruction, we learn that there are NONE?
Why this big push by the Americans to discredit the UN, the only real diplomatic force in world politics these days? Is is maybe that this institution is the only opposing force, on a global scale, to the Americans' "we will police the world as we see fit" approach? | ¶ 6:34 a.m.
What I want to know is, how is this a bigger deal than, say, Halliburton winning billions of dollars in contracts in Iraq without a competitive bidding process? How is this a bigger deal than the fact that after repeating ad nauseum that Iraq needed to be invaded because Saddam was building weapons of mass destruction, we learn that there are NONE?
Why this big push by the Americans to discredit the UN, the only real diplomatic force in world politics these days? Is is maybe that this institution is the only opposing force, on a global scale, to the Americans' "we will police the world as we see fit" approach? | ¶ 6:34 a.m.
