the UN on trial (sort of)

So, we now know that you can cram $100,000 into a 10”X15” envelope, but if it’s $500,000 we’re talking about, you need either a much, much bigger envelope or a grocery bag. And we are hearing all this thanks to what was supposed to be a United Nations relief program to bring food and medicine to the people of U.N.-sanctioned Iraq. *

That money, of course, instead went to corrupt foreign dignitaries in exchange for their opposition to the war in Iraq.

The paragraph above comes from a blog that is being kept by a reporter who is attending the trial of a UN official alleged to have been pretty much the bagman for Saddam Hussein.