Russia’s Involvement In Oil-For-Food Scandal
March 28th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
March 28th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
HT: Hot Air
The Times Online of the UK reports:
A UN official who held a pivotal post in the Oil-for-Food programme for Iraq has been exposed by a defector as a Russian spy who diverted almost half a billion dollars to top Russian officials in “one of the richest heists in world history”.
Read the whole thing to see why Russia was so adamant about not going into Iraq. Never attribute to stupidity what you can attribute to incentive.
Hot Air concludes:
The use of a spy to subvert the UN OFF program is a breathtakingly cynical and morbidly evil act by Russia. It would never have been discovered, either, without the invasion that toppled Saddam and exposed the OFF fraud in 2003. Russia, with its deliberate and official manipulation of the program, kept Saddam in power and made it necessary to have a military intervention. Had the UN nations actually abided by the sanctions regime, Saddam may well have either capitulated or grown weak enough internally for the Iraqis to take him out themselves.
Ouch. We could have used those five years back.
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