U.N. - Useless Nations

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday during a private meeting with lawmakers that the United States was a “deadbeat” donor to the world body. Has this jackass forgotten that the U.S. pays, or should I say WE, taxpayers, pay 22% of the organizations almost $5 billion operating budget. He made the comment because the U.S. has been late making payments to them. Is this the same U.N. that helped the Iraqi dictator? YES

Between 1997 and 2002, the Oil-for-Food program generated over $67 billion in revenues for the Iraqi regime. With little U.N. oversight, the Iraqi dictatorship was able to circumvent and exploit the program. It is suspected of selling Iraqi oil at bargain basement prices that benefited numerous middlemen while overpaying for various imports, which rewarded suppliers. The Iraqis then demanded kickbacks from both groups. The program was officially ended in November 2003.

 

The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) estimates that the Saddam Hussein regime generated $10.1 billion in illegal revenues by exploiting the Oil-for-Food program, including $5.7 billion from oil smuggling and $4.4 billion in "illicit surcharges on oil sales and after-sales charges on suppliers.” The scale of the fraud was far more extensive than the GAO had previously estimated.

 

Is this the same U.N. whose peacekeepers have abused people including children in four continents? YES

 

Incidents of sexual exploitation in U.N. peacekeeping missions around the world have become depressingly routine. Abuse by U.N. peacekeepers has taken place in the Congo, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Guinea, Liberia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, and Cambodia—in four continents altogether. Congress and the Bush Administration must act to help ensure that those responsible are brought to justice and that future abuses are prevented.

 

Are we the real “deadbeats”? I wish we, the United States, would stop funding this horrible organization because all it provides is fraud and scandal. That’s why I call them the Useless Nations.

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