The UN is not perfect, but it is useful in many ways.
I'll say....
Report: Iraq Aides Knew of Russian Oil Bribes
Monday, May 16, 2005
WASHINGTON Saddam Hussein (search) and his government bribed Russian officials, paying them millions of dollars in Iraqi oil allocations, as part of the Oil-for-Food program, a congressional investigation concluded.
The payments were made so that Iraq could buy support for lifting sanctions against Iraq in the U.N. Security Council, former Saddam officials told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (search) investigations subcommittee.
FOX
The UN is just a tool for 3d world thugs to attempt to reign the US in.
Another example...
U.S. ousted from U.N. Human Rights Commission
UNITED NATIONS -- In what amounts to a stinging rebuke, the United States has been voted off the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
This marks the first time the United States will not be represented on the commission since its inception in 1947. The commission investigates human-rights abuses around the world.
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But according to Reuters, some diplomats said they believed
the Bush administration's opposition to the Kyoto climate change treaty as well as its insistence on a missile defense contributed to the loss.
CNN
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" Isaiah 6:8
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