The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, October 13, 2005
French UN Ambassador took Oil for Food bribes--has anyone noticed?
John Hindraker makes some really excellent points about the utter corruption of the French government--see my bold emphases below. (Mainstream media? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller....Bueller....Bueller?....).
But seriously, isn't it time we made a change and sent these yahoos home to their vinyards without their coveted Security Council permanent seat? Of all the many betrayals after WWII, giving the Nazi-collaborationalist Vichy Frogs a permanent seat on the UNSC ranks right up there with handing Eastern Europe over to the Sovs--and we are still reaping the results of whatever mental giants made that decision:
This story came out yesterday, and we just haven't gotten to it: France's former Ambassador to the U.N., who also served as Kofi Annan's "special adviser," has been indicted by French authorities for "influence peddling and corruption of foreign officials." The official, Jean-Bernard Merimee, is alleged to have received kickbacks in the form of oil allocations from Saddam Hussein as part of the Oil-for-Food fraud.
Merimee is one of those imposing, sophisticated Continental bureaucrats of whom John Kerry and the Democrats in general are so much in awe. It is people like Merimee who would have decided, in a Kerry administration, whether the United States had passed the "global test." Thankfully, that day never arrived, and Merimee won't do much "testing" from a French prison.
You have to wonder, though. Annan's son and "special adviser" were corrupted by Saddam, along with several other U.N. officials--and those are just the ones known so far. On the French end, Merimee, the U.N. ambassador; Interior Minister Charles Pasqua; Patrick Maugein, a friend of Jacques Chirac, and others apparently were on Saddam's payroll.
But it didn't matter! The French government assures us that there was "'no link' between French diplomats' alleged contacts with Saddam's regime and France's decision not to support the U.S.-led war in 2003 that toppled the Iraqi dictator."
Well, that's certainly a relief. Sometimes when people pay bribes they expect results in return. But Saddam apparently wasn't that kind of guy.
But seriously, isn't it time we made a change and sent these yahoos home to their vinyards without their coveted Security Council permanent seat? Of all the many betrayals after WWII, giving the Nazi-collaborationalist Vichy Frogs a permanent seat on the UNSC ranks right up there with handing Eastern Europe over to the Sovs--and we are still reaping the results of whatever mental giants made that decision:
This story came out yesterday, and we just haven't gotten to it: France's former Ambassador to the U.N., who also served as Kofi Annan's "special adviser," has been indicted by French authorities for "influence peddling and corruption of foreign officials." The official, Jean-Bernard Merimee, is alleged to have received kickbacks in the form of oil allocations from Saddam Hussein as part of the Oil-for-Food fraud.
Merimee is one of those imposing, sophisticated Continental bureaucrats of whom John Kerry and the Democrats in general are so much in awe. It is people like Merimee who would have decided, in a Kerry administration, whether the United States had passed the "global test." Thankfully, that day never arrived, and Merimee won't do much "testing" from a French prison.
You have to wonder, though. Annan's son and "special adviser" were corrupted by Saddam, along with several other U.N. officials--and those are just the ones known so far. On the French end, Merimee, the U.N. ambassador; Interior Minister Charles Pasqua; Patrick Maugein, a friend of Jacques Chirac, and others apparently were on Saddam's payroll.
But it didn't matter! The French government assures us that there was "'no link' between French diplomats' alleged contacts with Saddam's regime and France's decision not to support the U.S.-led war in 2003 that toppled the Iraqi dictator."
Well, that's certainly a relief. Sometimes when people pay bribes they expect results in return. But Saddam apparently wasn't that kind of guy.
