I'm a software engineer who's married and has two daughters. I'm a Christian who tries to let my faith inform my political views, rather than vice versa. I do lean to the conservative side on many issues. Politically, I favor a government that holds people responsible for their behavior and well-being while helping the less fortunate become self-sustaining and contributors to society.
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Oil, Food, Saddam, UN - Bad combination
It appears the hammer is about to fall on one UN official in the UN Oil for Food scandal. Benon Sevan, the former head of the United Nations oil for food programme, is about to have charges filed against him by US prosecutors. According to CIA reports, he collected vouchers from Hussein for approximately 7.3 million barrels of oil in return for campaigning against sanctions on Iraq.
Again, we were supposed to rely on the good will of the UN to resolve the UN situation? It appears to me that the only people who would have been better off had we waited for the UN would be Saddam and those who accepted his bribes. John Kerry often refers to the "coalition of the bribed", meaning our allies in the Iraqi war. It seems clear that there is such a coalition but it's not the US side that deserves the title - it's the UN and those other security council members (China, France, Germany) that lived by the motto "No war, for oil".
