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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Apparently, the UN knew about the Oil for Food farce all along, yet didn't do a damn thing to prevent it

Link - and it gets even better, it's from the NYT

So I guess Chalabi didn't make it all up, after all.

Hey, UN guys! Does this apply to any other issues that were under the UN's scrutiny?

"Everybody said it was a terrible shame and against international law, but there was really no enthusiasm to tackle it," said Peter van Walsum, a Dutch diplomat who headed the Iraq sanctions committee in 1999 and 2000, recalling the discussions of illegal oil surcharges. "We never had clear decisions on anything. So we just in effect condoned things."