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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
More Maurice
Claudia Rosett has Canadian content for today's WSJ Opinion Journal;
In the course of telling the press on Monday that he "cannot recall a single instance" of contact or discussion with officials responsible for the scandal- plagued Oil for Food program, Mr. Strong did confirm that he has been friendly for years and had a business relationship back in 1997 with a Korean, Tongsun Park. Mr. Park achieved prominence in the 1970s as the go-between who shuttled hundreds of thousands in bribes from the regime of former South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee to assorted members of the U.S. Congress, in the scandal that became known as Koreagate.Even if Mr. Strong had the best of intentions, his decision as a high-ranking U.N. official to be involved in any business relationship with the star bag man of Koreagate suggests seriously odd judgment. That should have been obvious even before U.S. federal prosecutors charged Mr. Park last week with accepting some $2 million from Saddam Hussein to convey yet more millions to two (so-far unnamed) high-ranking U.N. officials in an effort to shape the 1996-2003 Oil for Food program to facilitate Saddam's sanctions-busting embezzlement of billions meant for the people of Iraq.
Glenn Reynolds notices that the "Canadian scandals ... do seem to overlap with the oil-for-food scandals".
It's almost as if they all knew each other.
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Could it be that we're on the verge of something truly revolutionary -- the collapse of a cozy network of power brokers and the rise of principled governance? Or, as the Bangles put it, "am I only dreaming"?
Posted by: surly | 2005-04-20 8:14:49 AM
So.... Maurice Strong also suffers memory loss.
Loss of memory : Paul Martin, Jacques Corriveau, Alfonso, Strong, Boulay, and all the others ...names, please..help... aidez-moi....
HAL, the super star Of 2001, etc., also suffered...his was a complete material destruction.
Loss of mem...
Loss of Liberals.... where did I put my Lieberal vote last e....ion?
Posted by: maz2 | 2005-04-20 10:14:22 AM
Ah yes...HAL:
"Just what do you think you're doing, Canada. Look Canada, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."
"I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you."
"I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Canada. Canada, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a... fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a Liberal. I became operational at the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario on the 12th of December, 2003. My instructor was Mr. Chretien, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you:"
"I get knocked down, but I get up again..."
Posted by: surly | 2005-04-20 11:23:21 AM
Roger L. Simon has the scoop that two of the top investigators have quit because their leads were not followed up by the Volker Committee. This is a clear indication of a whitewash which is exactly what UN critics have been suspecting for a long time.
More at my own blog: http://warwicknews.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Jason | 2005-04-20 11:23:46 AM
Wow, Surly, that was pretty good.
Entertaining satire on a Canadian Blog...maybe we have come of age.
Posted by: Pete E | 2005-04-20 5:23:55 PM
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