i wrote a while back that the apparent foil4ood scandal at the un should be a real scandal - but the only people who were pushing the story were the usual neocon outlets - fox/wsj/safire&brooks - which raised many suspicions. even the mainstream pro-american/anti-un outlets hardly touched the story. (i have no particular view of the veracity of the claims, apart from doubts caused by the source)

now it seems the un has been forced to start a major investigation, with the apparently unimpeachable volcker at the head. regardless of what comes out, the credibility of the UN will be undermined - particularly in the interim. (kofi's son is implicated, tainting even kofi).

one curious thing is that it is all happening at the same time that we are seeing the pretense of trying to get the UN back in iraq. bush mentioned in his disconfabulated performance last week how his UN guy was running around iraq trying to find a way to transfer on jun30. meanwhile we see the un undermined by these charges by the usual suspects, and bremer stating that the deadline cant be met.

ive speculated that the US *wants* to be alone in iraq. praps this is more of the same. we are also hearing both colin and condi (and prolly others) apparently almost inviting other countries to leave iraq. and thailand (450 medicos&engineers) saying 'if we get attacked, we will leave' http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9341236%255E2702,00.html which shuold make them easy to disappear. imagine if the ugly ugly events in isolated fallujah were extended to the whole country... shooting at ambulances and all...

the other thing to remember is that evil chalabi (ie perle (where is he btw?)) is in charge of all iraqs oil files. volcker will have his hands full trying to work out what is real/not. these are the same people who somehow found an untouched handful of documents (amongst a totally ransacked/burnt out office building) which falsely showed that antiwar brit politician george galloway was on saddams payroll. it wouldnt surprise to see much more of the same...



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