Un Blog Defenders
The UN blog posts some links to its defenders in the blogosphere, the first of which pretty much just repeats the original UN post and its list of 'good' activities with a rant about right wingers that reaches all the way back to President Truman.
The best part of this is that they're calling Simon, an author and screenwriter that voted D for nearly all of his life a 'right winger,' and not denying the scandal at the UN. The so far standard 'defense' of the UN has been 'but look at all the good we've done.' Digby (linked above) takes it another step to claim that Oil for Food is "not one that appears to be unprecedented or shocking by corruption scandal standards."
Why does it not shock me that Digby is not shocked? Guess he hasn't been looking at the same mass graves I've been looking at. Click for more people that are more annoyed at Simon calling attention to UN complicity in mass murder than they are at the crime itself.
Plus: Feel free to click here or over on the sidebar for a fascinating account by three UN employee's of their experiences working and living in such famous hotspots as Haiti, Somalia and Cambodia in "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures."
