What won't they do?

The guys at Power Line expose another unbelievable angle the BDS inflicted left employs in their zeal to damage the Bush Admin by any means necessary. In a post titled, "What Else Are They Keeping Silent About?", John Hinderaker notes that:

The Swedish Foreign Ministry was delegated to investigate who knew what about corruption in the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq. The report has now been made public by a Swedish radio station. It says that Ole Kolby, Norway's U.N. ambassador at the time and head of the sanctions committee, knew about the program's corruption but "remained quiet for fear of angering Iraq and big companies involved in the program."

Then John cites the justification used to cover up the horrific corruption at the UN, perhaps the largest fraud ever perpetrated in history:

Henrik Thune of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs told Aftenposten that Kolby was caught between competing interests, including fear of fueling the push for war in the Bush administration if he revealed corruption in the Oil for Food program.

Let that sink in for a minute.

Here we had head of the sanctions committee, Ole Kolby (Norway's U.N. ambassador) intentionally covering up massive corruption at the UN while simultaneously covering up Saddam's massive fraud. Saddam used the illegal kickbacks from the Oil-for-Food Program to bribe UN bureaucrats & foreign governments to weaken/end UN Sanctions & keep the US from taking action against Iraq. He used it to bribe politicians & the media to get favorable coverage in the media & to counter the US attempts to bring Iraq back into full unconditional compliance with UN Resolutions. And Saddam used some of those proceeds to buy illegal arms, materials & equipment to upgrade his WMD Programs. We're talking many, many tens of billions of dollars in fraud here folks.

This sanctimonious leftist was more concerned about thwarting the Bush Admin than in performing his sworn duties as head of the sanctions committee & UN ambassador. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that this information alone would be sufficient justification for Saddam's removal & to bring about a thorough house cleaning at the UN.

This is an excellent example of the depraved depths the 'by any means necessary' crowd will go to further their agenda. If their position is so superior & the Bush Admin really is as Eeeevil as they "feel" it is; why do they need to repeatedly commit so many acts of perfidy to make their case? Keep this in mind whenever your favorite leftist tells you how Eeeevil & corrupt the Bush Admin purportedly is & how the UN is some shining utopian example of global consensus that solves the worlds problems. But I digress....

John continues:

It seems that the Bush bogeyman can be trotted out to justify just about any sort of malfeasance.

This is reminiscent of the recent admission by Kevin Drum, a rather prominent liberal, especially on the web, that he refrains from writing about the threat posed by Iran because doing so would help the Bush administration. One wonders how much of the "reality" reported in the news is influenced by the determination of both politicians and journalists not to mention the facts that tend to support the reasonableness of, and necessity for, the Bush administration's policies.

It seems revelations like this never end. This is from the very same people who repeatedly & intentionally misinformed the public by asserting we couldn't trust the Bush Admin because they "cherry picked" intel & "manipulated" data in order to "mislead" us into war. Yet here we are again exposing them as the corrupt liars who intentionally withheld critical information in order to mislead the public. They've done it in the past they continue to do it today.