We’re all aware of UNScam, the Oil for Food frauds, the way in which Benon Sevan got paid off, the way that the son of the General Secretary of the United Nations got his snout in the trough, the billions and billions ripped off right under the noses of those who maintain the new International world order, the oil vouchers to politicians the world over. Hans Blix today shows us how they’re going to explain it all:

We also see an intense
and large-scale campaign of vilification, depicting the UN as "corrupt"
because the oil-for-food programme – instituted and supervised by the
security council and its most powerful members, including the US –
enabled Iraq, the buyers of Iraqi oil and the sellers of products to
Iraq, to siphon off money fraudulently and pass it on illegally to
Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The
fraud, although widely suspected and estimated at about a billion
dollars a year in the media, was not easy for the programme
administration to track down and prove. The council and its members saw
it with open eyes just as they saw the billions that flowed to Saddam
from oil exports to neighbouring states. The programme functioned as a
reasonably effective break against the import of weapons and dual-use
items, which was its major objective. Today it serves as a campaign
platform against the UN. So long as the current climate remains, it is
doubtful if any meaningful discussion about UN reform can be pursued.

Translation: We knew, we didn’t care and it was a good idea anyway. Don’t trouble yourselves over it, just international politics as usual, and certainly don’t take it as an excuse to criticise the organisation that signs my pay-cheque.

Sigh. He really doesn’t get it at all. That this is international politics and the UN as usual I have no doubt. What is concerning people is that they did not know this was the way the system operated. Now they do and they’re not going to stand for it any more. The answer to the defense "This is the way the world works" is "But it shouldn’t be" and I think that the UN is going to be swept away on that wave of revulsion.