February 17, 2005
99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall
Take one down, pass it around... hey, I wonder where that Iraqi oil shipment is going...
Looks like the UN inspectors were looking for illicit Iraqi trade activity at the bottom of their shot glasses. According to testimony, UN inspectors spent alot of time drinking, and very little time inspecting. What, the UN doing shoddy, incompentent, corrupt work? Say it isn't so...
This inditement frankly isn't that surprising for any large bureaucracy bloated with largesse. Anyone ever see how guys on a business trip act? While nominally in town to sell a product, their hedonistic behavior more accurately reflects a gambling and whoring junket. Give guys money far away from home, and you'll get what the UN got - alot of drinking and fraternizing, not alot of work.
Anyone see a modern college campus? Send your kids away to learn far away, you get - alot of drinking and fraternizing, not alot of work.
The nepotism that keeps popping up in these reports on UN malfeasance is troubling. Appears the only requirement to getting a seat on the UN gravy train is to be a UN official's genetic baggage. And the Iraqi people bore the price, as Saddam siphoned off oil profits to prop up his illegitimate regime.
If this report was isolated, it be much easier to absolve those in charge of the program of simply being taken advantage of by unscrupulous employees far away and hard to truly account for. But systemic corruption and incompentence permeates the organization like a metastasized cancer. The patient needs a marrow transplant desperately...
Posted by MEC2 at February 17, 2005 03:33 AM