UN defenders needed

U.N. Procurement Scandal: Ties to Saddam and Al Qaeda

The scandal engulfing the United Nations Procurement Department now appears to be bottomless. It also shows signs of growing more sinister, especially where it involves a mysterious private company called IHC Services, which did big business with the procurement department until it was removed from U.N. rosters in June.

New details of how dark the scandal could prove to be have emerged from the private sale of IHC on June 3, 2005, just as the procurement scandal was about to break. It now appears that while doing business with the U.N., IHC had links both to Saddam Hussein’s old sanctions-busting networks, and to a Liechtenstein-based businessman, Engelbert Schreiber, Jr., known among other things for his ties to a figure designated by the U.N. itself as a financier of Al Qaeda.

What kind of fool would look to the United Nations for anything?

FORD: Bush Must Use UN Address to Build International
Partnerships "Built on Persuasion Not Command"

"The President's past unwillingness to work with the United Nations, as well as the intransigence of some of our traditional allies, have damaged the confidence and credibility of the United Nations and the principle of collective security.

So Harold Ford thinks the problem is our President's intransigence and not corrupt bureaucracies that work hand in glove with Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein? That is rich.