Need a quick run-down on the U.N. scandals, which as I wrote earlier today includes more Canadian LIBERALS?
In the OpinionJournal today, Claudia Rosett pens a clear synopsis of the current United Nations scandal festival. There are so many scandals, and so many likenesses—and even apparent connections—to the Chretien/Martin Liberal Party and their corruption and alleged thievery of taxpayer cash to advance liberalism-a-palooza scandal inquiry (and wiener stand!), that it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Kofi Annan decided to join the Liberal Party of Canada and run in Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!, Quebec. (Actual town. Liberals would rename it Saint-Kofi-du-Ha!-Ha! in honor of one of their patron saints, another being Michael Moore).
Yet more scandal at the United Nations? Secret deals, millions in bribes, leading to billions in global kickbacks? What to do?
Have no fear, reform is here. The United Nations has already put in place a sweeping set of improvements, with Secretary-General Kofi Annan reorganizing and streamlining the world body to bring about, according to a U.N. reform dossier, “a culture of greater openness, coherence, innovation and confidence.” A blue-ribbon panel has “set more stringent standards for judging the performance of peacekeepers, in the field and at Headquarters.” And there is now a system for dealing with U.N. staff, that “gives more precedence to merit and competence and less to tenure and precedent.”
All of which sounds terrific. Except that the reforms cited above, heralding the new era of openness, coherence, competence, integrity and improved peacekeeping are all plucked from a U.N. dossier released almost three years ago, in June 2002. These reforms were shepherded through by Mr. Annan starting in the late 1990s, with the help of his handpicked special adviser, Undersecretary-General Maurice Strong.
This paragraph in her piece hits home. This could be a description of Liberal cabinet minister Scott Brison speaking for Paul (“we lead the world”) Martin in Parliament, as he often does for some inexplicable reason. Brison, like all Liberals, constantly tells us the Libbies are just fine—did nothing wrong, did not have lunch with that man, we are not a crook, one bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch girl…. and then in Parliament demands that we simpletons simply “button it!” and await the finding of the corruption inquiry which is looking into their corruption, before speaking publicly about it and making them look like corrupt lying cheating stealing buffoons.
On the rest of the Oil for Food scene, Mr. Annan has advised us all to wait for the findings of the Volcker investigation, authorized more than a year ago, but not planning to issue a final report until this summer. Meanwhile, Mr. Annan himself raced before the cameras just two hours after Mr. Volcker’s most recent interim report, March 29, to declare himself “exonerated.”
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