Send bounty hunters to get them. But get them - and make huge public scandals out of them---to let everyone else who is cashing in know--it might not be a good thing to do. Better off leaving your position. Thank you for ripping everyone off--goodbye.

Unfortunately, Canada will not follow suit and charge Canadians connected with the Oil for Bribes scandal.

Hmmm, bureaucrats at the U.N. profiting from Saddam's horrendous treatment of his own people. Stealing money from the poor.

Some lady the other day said it was the job of the USA to disperse food and money to those less fortunate around the world.

WHY? So dictators and bureaucrats can steal it for themselves, and intentionally leave their own people in dire poverty? Silly lib. No clue about how the real world works.

My suggestion for Benon Sevan: Tie him up...

Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, John Gotti and all the rest of the mob thought they were slick, just sucklings compaired to these professionals at the United Nations. Diplomatic immunity, what a joke. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Anan, now these are at the top of the feeding chain.

THE INDICTEMENT AGAINST MR. BENON SEVAN IS INDEED RIDICULOUS, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, IRRATIONAL DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE INITIAL ACCUSATION WAS ABOUT MISSING SUMS ABOVE ONE BILLION DOLLARS. SUPPOSEDLY, IF MR. BENON SEVAN RECEIVED 160,000 US DOLLARS, WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE MISSING MONIES ? WHERE IS 999,840,000 MISSING US DOLLARS ?
IT SEEMS THAT THE FED.GRAND JURY, THE SO CALLED U.N. INVESTIGATORS AND MR. MICHAEL J. GARCIA, THE U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, ALL OF THE ABOVE HAD NO OTHER SERIOUS AND IMPORTANT MISSIONS TO DO TO REVEAL THE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS PLUS SCANDALE. IN ANY INVESTIGATION, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THE INVESTIGATORS REVEAL THE PRIME OR THE MASTER MIND OF THE SCANDALE BEFORE ANY INDICTMENT. WHY THIS INDICTMENT WAS NOT REVEALED WHILE MR. KOFI ANNAN WAS STILL IN REIGN ? AGAIN, THIS SOUND VERY RIDICULOUS. THE INDICTMENT AGAINST A PERSON FOR U.S. $160,000 WHILE DISREGARDING THE BILLION PLUS U.S. DOLLARS WHEREABOUTS.
NOW, WE AMERICAN, WE TAX PAYERS, WE, THE PEOPLE OF THIS GREAT LAND OF AMERICA, SHOULD REALIZE THE HUGE AMOUNT OF WASTE AND SCANDALES COMMITTED BY THOSE WHO PRETEND TO REPRESED US, THE GOOD AMERICAN TAX PAYERS. PLEASE MAKE SURE IN YOUR NEXT NEWS RELEASE STATE THE AMOUNT OF MONIES THAT WAS SPENT FOR THE ABOVE INDICTMENT OF U.S. $160,000. ALSO, SHOULD YOU DECIDE TO OFFER A POSITIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE NEWS FOR THE AMERICAN TAX PAYERS AND THE GOOD CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY, TELL US WHERE DID THE REMAINING MONIES ARE, OR WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MISSING U.N. OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM'S MONIES. WE THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR FUTURE SERVICES.

Well, just read the above and get the feeling that there's some FLOOR LIMIT to this whole Oil for Food Kickback program.

$160,000 bribe doesn't sound that much compared to the alleged billions that have been spent and are now missing, so it makes me wonder if there's a floor limit to Justice these days.

The Oil for food program is only one example of how doing business in the real world really works.

A bribe is a bribe. However, the question must be asked, is there a floor limit we are all willing to accept to enforce and operate humanitian aid agendas such as this Oil-for-food program?

Sunny Puck

I'd like to know what Kofi Anan's cut was...

It's time to get serious about reform the United Nations. All transactions should be 100% transparent, even when it make the operation less effective.

gary

It seems odd that these revelations are emerging now more than 2 years since the investigation and after both Anon and this character were out of office...

It seems clear that evidence was withheld to give these clowns time to exit stage left

I know that dogs will always have some ticks, but when the load of ticks become too high either the dog will die, or the fleas have to die...that goes for corruption as well..there is now way too much of it

Hmmmmm, could this explain why the UN was so against our going into Iraq? Oh no, that could never be, UN officials are so honest and unbiased...yeah right! Remember when Kofi Annan actually had to say that although he was really really close to his son, he actually never knew where he worked? Really? Anyone here not know where their parents or children work, especially if you're really close?

Wake up people, the UN makes the Gambino family look Ralph Nader.

Now I wonder if there are any ulterior motives that keep China and Russia from voting on harsher sanctions against Iran...Hmmmm.

The Irony is that had the US not gone into Iraq, these bribes would never had been discovered. No wonder the UN did not want us going into Iraq: their complicity with Saddam would be discovered.

It is clear from the comments that 1) Noone read the Oil for Food Programme Investigation Report (granted it was many pages but skimming would have properly informed many of the findings against Sevan); 2) No one really understands how the UN functions -that the UN is made up of 191 member states and 15 on the Security Council(US is 1 of only 5 permanent members and was completely aware of what was happening with the OFFP as all the other nations)who vote on sanctions or approvign intervention - the UN can't approve WAR - (they have no standing army-only a peacekeeping which the country has to agree to let the PKers in)or not going to war per se, etc so its NOT the UN that said NO - it was member states on the Security Council- now did they have ulterior motives that is another question ; 3)its all about POLITICS people!! the UN as a humanitarian organization and a place for conflicting parties to come together to negotiate is a much needed organisation, however, the interests of the many nations and member states take over and politics rule the decision-making process therefore things don't get done because it is right it gets done because its right for that nation/country - US is just as guilty as everyother member on the Security Council and other committees. 5) Many countries are trying to indict their respective companies and individuals but its not as easy to prove "bribe" in these cases as it would appear and with the death of Saddam and other witnesses who could have verified all the bribes, its even more difficult.