A note to some people here regarding the so-called oil-for-food "scandal." The U.S. shares just as much, if not more, blame for their role in not stopping it in the first place!
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But Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies, who monitors day-to-day political developments in the world body, told IPS that U.N. 'credibility' is certainly not at risk.
'It's the members of the Security Council, most significantly the United States and its allies, who were responsible for approving all contracts in the oil-for-food program,' she pointed out.
'This is one more in a long series of efforts by Washington to divert responsibility for its own failures to blame the United Nations instead,' Bennis said.
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0412-09.htm
http://www.ambafrance-us.org/news/st...imes040704.asp
For some reason the conservative columnists who keep peddling this story tend to leave out that fact...