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Saturday, April 23, 2005Coalition of the bribed?Now that word's out that Canada may have been in the tank for Saddam, Instapundit asks: I'm just interested in seeing how money seemed to be flowing from Saddam Hussein to pretty much every government that took an active role in opposing the Iraq war. And I wonder where else the money was going. I suspect we'll find out, in time.We also know about French and Russian stakes. It's the "where else" that's going to be interesting. We know about the people buying oil on the cheap. What about the folks distributing the "aid"? Specifically, what will we find out about the NGOs pushing for the sanctions to be lifted for the sake of the Iraqi people? One hopes the majority will fall into that too common category - well meaning but frustrated by intransigeant governments - but I wouldn't be too astonished to discover that at least some of the relief agencies hell-bent on saving the Iraqi people from everything except tyranny had some benefactors with their hands in the cookie jar. The real blow to the UN/international community might ultimately not come with word that people involved in the oil biz were playing fast and loose but with the discovery that Save the Children types hyping the plight of the Iraqi people were keeping their mouths shut about oil for food money not actually reaching those in need. If word got out that UNICEF or the Red Cross knowingly allowed Saddam to starve out enemies while keeping quiet... Don't know if something like this will pop up, of course, but I've run across more than one or two "for the children" type organizations that were mostly for the bureaucrats. Could the people who do such things pass up an opportunity like that afforded by pre-war Iraq? 
posted by gbarto at 11:18 PM |
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