2/07/2005 08:10:43 AM|||Toni|||The American Spectator

Seems to me that there is a huge gap in how the MSM has treated American Corporate scandals and the United Nation scandals. With the corporate scandals not only were the CEO's considered guilty in the media but President Bush was aligned with this guilt even though the "illegal" activity occurred in the late '90's to 2001. Now however, when it comes to the siphoning of bribes and payoffs from Saddam Hussein to UN officials the MSM considers Kofi Anan (et al) innocent til proven guilty even though the dollars involved in UNSCAM dwarves the dollars with the corporate scandals. The trail of corruption ever widens with this scandal. Nothing is said of the investigator (Volcker) having ties to the UN resulting in a somewhat tepid results from his audit.

Excerpt from Babbin:
The Iraqis weren't passing out oil allocations worth millions just to see if they could. Every bribe Saddam's regime paid was for a purpose. The regime obviously wanted Sevan to do (or not do) something in return for the bribe. But what? In the thoroughly volckered report, there's no mention of the motive for the bribe, or the service Sevan did in return for it. Or even that the "Independent Inquiry" is looking into it. The report says that Sevan's actions "were ethically improper and seriously undermined the integrity of the United Nations." Saying Sevan has ethical problems is like saying the Gambino family has legal issues. Sevan -- who is apparently as crooked as a dog's hind leg -- may be a sacrificial lamb. The U.N. investigators have no interest in digging into the reason for the bribe or what Sevan did because it might just lead them to the heart of the corruption.
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