Category: World

Friends of Saddam has lots of info on the latest developments in the UN Oil-for-Food scandal.

What’s that you say? You haven’t heard of this? Well, while the media obsessively repeats scenes of a few idiots playing naked twister with Iraqi prisoners, more and more is being uncovered about the greatest and most morally repugnant theft in history.

While Saddam was defying UN inspectors during the 90’s, the UN was taking millions in kickbacks from the Oil-for-Food program. Much was made during the cease-fire between the 1991 and 2003 phases of the Iraq war of the terrible civilian toll brought about by the UN sanctions against Iraq. What’s becoming increasingly clear is that the money that was supposed to be buying milk and bread for Iraqi children was instead lining the pockets of UN kleptocrats, from Kofi Annan on down.

NATIONES IVNCTAE DELENDAE SUNT.

Update: The Canadian connection.

So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite their necks until you have overcome them.
    — The Noble Quran 47:4

Omar at Iraq The Model has a couple of interviews with victims of the horrible Amerikkkan occupation.

I haven’t commented on the whole Iraqi prisoner abuse thing because I didn’t think it bore commenting on. The media feeding frenzy is yet another example of the perfect being the enemy of the good. The only possible comparison one can make between the American government and the former Iraqi regime is that the Americans who perpetrated the abuses are now in custody awaiting courts-martial, while under Saddam such behavior was enshrined as policy at the highest levels.

In any case, Omar provides some Arab views. A couple of examples:

Here we have the president of the greatest nation on earth apologizes for what a small group of pervert soldiers did. And here, the American press proves that it’s free to show the truth. We lived with similar pictures for years until they became the basics of every prison’s daily life and we never heard an Arabic paper point them out. These are lessons from the western culture entering the hearts of Arabs, whether the Arab leaders liked or not. — Sa’eed – Diwaniyah/Iraq

I’m very happy to see Iraqis condemning the abuse and defending the rights of the prisoners and this is the first time they do something like this, which was impossible for them to do under the dictator’s regime. I think that our Arab brothers should mind their own business and take a look at their own prisons. — N – Jordan.

I think that president Bush was honest in what he said. Those abuses do not represent the American people. As a matter of fact, we can find cruel men with no morals in any country; that’s why we should not judge a whole nation for the violations of a small group of people and I’m sure that these will get the punishment they deserve. Here I’d like to direct my question to the Arabic media “where were you when Saddam mass-executed my people and used all kinds of torture against us?” — Reemon A’adel Sami – Iraq

Read the whole thing (including, lest you think I whitewash, the negative comments).