Category Archives: UN Shenanigans

Heh. Good for him.

Bush Appoints Bolton to U.N. Job

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Headline Watch…

Oil-food inquiry clears UN chief SF Chronicle (story from NYT, by Warren Hoge).
Report criticizes top UN official San Jose Mercury News (same story from NYT as above)
UN: Inquiry Clears Annan, But Faults Management On Iraq Program Radio Free Europe (By Robert McMahon)
The first two are the same story but the editors who wrote [...]

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More on the UN Oil for Palaces.

SPECIAL REPORT #1 - OIL-FOR-FOOD INVESTIGATION by Roger L. Simon
This blog has new information from sources close to the investigation of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Scandal by Paul Volcker’s Independent Inquiry Committee. After some delay, the committee is releasing its preliminary results at noon Tuesday. This report may reveal, among other things, startling information tending [...]

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Sounds good to me.

Defending Bolton by Anne Applebaum
For the record, let me begin by repeating a few quotes from John Bolton, newly nominated as ambassador to the United Nations, just so that no one can accuse me of naivete. He has said, “The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost ten stories, it [...]

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Hello, UN is Anyone Home?

Note to Kofi “The Magnificent”: UN Security Council Resolution 1559 - to end Syrian Occupation - was passed in September 2004. By unanimous vote, with 6 abstentions, it called for the “strict respect of Lebanon’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, unity, and political independence under the sole and exclusive authority of the Government of Lebanon throughout the [...]

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Ouch.

The UN: Bringing Lingonberries to a Needy World.
Drink warning.

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