I was pulling your chain a little bit. If the point of the argument is the hypocrisy of the arguers, the "pot calling the kettle black" point is perfectly legitimate. You would have had a valid point if I had insisted that there was nothing at all wrong with corruption in Iraq's leadership and/or American industry.

The point of my original post was not that I thought some of the Iraqi leaders were ideally suited to run that country. IMO, there are more than a few that shouldn't be in there. Nor was the point that the U.N. has a worldwide monopoly on corruption.

The point was that the U.N. should not be put in political charge of any major national crisis, for many reasons, only some of which were outlined in the original article in this thread.

This is a highly relevant discussion because the U.N. is invoked by the Left and many liberals in our own nation, and by leaders across the world, as a "magic bullet" for almost every foreign policy problem. John Kerry is chief among these, and he's running for President.