The Triangle

Issue date: 10/8/04 Section: Ed-Op

Once this debacle became popularly know in the United States a few months ago, the United Nations ordered a review panel of the situation. Well, the most interesting fact might deter us from believing their results, considering the United Nations charged a 2.2 percent commission on every barrel of oil sold to be deposited directly to the United Nations. Well, thank goodness they are the ones launching a review panel of the Oil for Food program, especially when their Assistant Secretary General was on a list obtained by the Americans from the Iraqi Oil Ministry of beneficiaries of the voucher program. Also on that list were none other than the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine, two groups with ties so close to terrorism that they are the ones buckling the bombs to the chests of suicide bombers.

Oil is not the moral end to the United Nations impotence and moral obscurity. I am sure many of us are familiar with Hamas, the terrorist organization in the Middle East responsible for countless car bombings and suicide bombings in Israel. The head of the United Nations Relief and Work agency has admitted to hiring members of Hamas. The best part about this is that he not only hired these animals but also stated that there was nothing wrong with hiring them. He claimed that they are members of a "political organization" and the Untied Nations does not discriminate based on beliefs. Absolutely, positively, beautiful. In the global war on terror, we have the organization that represents the world hiring, and condoning, Hamas as simply a military organization. In turn for paying these employees, they can then cash their paychecks for the latest in men's and women's bomb-vest fashion.

Now, corruption aside, it seems that the United Nations also does not understand that when they say something, they should at least commit the action to back it up. For example, Saddam violated 18 Security Council Resolutions to let arms inspectors in or face dire consequences. Of course, Saddam would comply for a few months, then boot the inspectors out again, repeating the whole process over again. If you let a country as small as Iraq with such a potential to kill its own people and the people around them push around the United Nations, people are not going to take it seriously anymore. In March of 2003, President Bush and our allies finally superseded the United Nations and took care of the problem themselves. Like the war or not, people must understand that the United Nations should have taken action themselves to determine if weapons of mass destruction existed. They failed to act, instead opting to sit idly by and enjoy being treated as subservients by Saddam.

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