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[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator investigating corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program for Iraq (news - web sites) said on Wednesday U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) should resign because the fraud took place on his watch.



Sen. Norm Coleman (news, bio, voting record) of Minnesota, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) reaped some $21.3 billion from the oil-for-food program because of Annan's lack of oversight.


"The decision to call for Mr. Annan's resignation does not come easily, but I have arrived at this conclusion because the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch," Coleman, a first term Republican senator, said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.

more: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/iraq/export/top2/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041201/pl_nm/un_annan_senator_dc&cid=615&ncid=1480


Funny, wonder why he's not worried about the missing billions for which the US was responsible.

MSNBC: What happened to Iraq’s oil money?
Former U.S. official says billions of dollars were ‘squandered’
By Lisa Myers & the NBC investigative unit
NBC News
Updated: 7:21 p.m. ET Nov. 30, 2004After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the United States took control of all of the Iraqi government’s bank accounts, including the income from oil sales. The United Nations approved the financial takeover, and President Bush vowed to spend Iraq’s money wisely. But now critics are raising serious questions about how well the United States handled billions of dollars in Iraqi oil funds.

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Iraq's oil resources generate billions of dollars — money the United States promised to protect after overthrowing Saddam Hussein.

Now, Frank Willis, a former senior American official in Iraq, tells NBC News the United States failed to safeguard the oil money known as the Development Fund for Iraq.

"There was, in my mind, pervasive leakage in assets of Iraq, and to some extent, those assets were squandered," says Willis.

more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6621523

[hobbit709]

1. will he call for Cheney to resign

for the millions Halliburton raked in from Saddam during the "sanctions"?

[Cocoa]

2. investigating corruption my ass

Coleman is no John Kerry, he's just beating Fox's old UN drum with the U.S. Senate as a mallet. :puke:

[underpants]

3. Uh-Oh the RW's "Ace in the hole" seems to have turned on them

This has been a big talking point for Fox News and the rest of the RW noise machine for some time now (it has heated up since the electioin), a perfect distraction from W's complete failure in the war. They have been trumpeting this and I suspect they are trying to spin it into a justification for the war (how is that now?) but it appears that much of the failure was on their watch and what was happening before the US took over continued.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. If that's the case, then * should resign because....

9/11 took place on his watch, too.

Listen, Kofi, the rightwingnuts are starting to fan the fire. Hang in there and don't let them push you around.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Actually, they want Kofi out precisely because he knows the

details about the program. The Republicans are projecting quite feebly on this point.

Norm, let's start looking at the businesses who profited from this program. Get Cheney up on the Hill under oath and ask him why he was trading with Hussein in 1998 against the US embargo, using European subsidiaries to cover his tracks?

[quiet.american]

6. There is no word

I don't believe there is any word in the English language that could adequately describe what a sea of utter swill Norm Coleman is and in what utter contempt I hold him.

It goes without saying that this walking mucus known as Coleman should also be calling for the entire Bush administration to step down, given their six degrees or less of separation from having their hands held out for distributions from Saddam's till as well.

How much of this $21.3 billion is in the bank accounts of Rumsfeld, Cheney and Rice, I'd like to know?

[underpants]

9. walking mucus

Can I use that?

[0007]

13. Smegma would be a hell of a lot more appropriate!

[Alisa]

10. totally agree - Coleman is swill

[bowens43]

7. Coleman can go f*ck himself.

[Rose Siding]

8. more discussion on this story here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1034253&mesg_id=1034253

[maddezmom]

11. oops sorry

I'll alert myself. :)

[0007]

12. Fuck Norm Coleman! I call on him to resign and I hope the

good people of Minnesota vote this rotten asshole out of office.