Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Faults United Nations for Corruption

The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh reported that the corruption which floods the culture of Iraq comes from the international community and the scandal which involved the United Nations.

While at an anti - corruption forum located in Baghdad, the Deputy Prime Minister said that the Oil - for - Food program running between the years of 1996 - 2003 under the United Nations sanctions wasted the use of money and were to blame for rampant corruption that bedevils Iraq. He further went on to claim that the scandals of Oil - for - Food and the wasting of public riches by the U.N was serious evidence which damaged and deepened the problem in the country.

Please, tell us something that we did not know suspect already. Or at least some of us who were not busy hating the President and the Republicans for everything that goes wrong in the world. I am also surprised that the President was not blamed for the Oil - for - Food scandal too. I guess the Bush detractors would have had as little evidence for their claims like there were no weapons of mass destruction.

The corrupt dictator, Saddam Hussein pocketed billions which made him one of the biggest United Nations grafters who opposed the United States (especially under the Bush regime). I see this is the thanks the United States of America gets for helping create and up - keep the United Nations? Maybe this was one of the reasons why the United States was not supported by the corrupt United Nations when it concerned Hussein? Well, because they are hypocrites and strange bedfellows with corrupt third world governments. But in the case of Iraq - fourth world is a better term for that nation.