Comments on: Baghdad Bagman Bagged: The Sentencing of Tongsun Park http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/baghdad_bagman_bagged_the_sent/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:59:50 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JunkYardBlog http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/baghdad_bagman_bagged_the_sent/comment-page-1/#comment-644 JunkYardBlog Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:49:31 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/02/23/baghdad-bagman-bagged-the-sentencing-of-tongsun-park/#comment-644 <strong>Monzer Vision!</strong> Hurrah! More MSN types are picking up on the story of busted Syrian gunrunner Monzer al-Kassar. Here's MSNBC with a good video, although they don't seem to have an "embed" option for bringing it in here so I'll just give... Monzer Vision!

Hurrah! More MSN types are picking up on the story of busted Syrian gunrunner Monzer al-Kassar. Here’s MSNBC with a good video, although they don’t seem to have an “embed” option for bringing it in here so I’ll just give…

]]> By: Mark http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/baghdad_bagman_bagged_the_sent/comment-page-1/#comment-643 Mark Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:29:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/02/23/baghdad-bagman-bagged-the-sentencing-of-tongsun-park/#comment-643 Kobayashi - our lost billions in Iraq were not just about "cash dispensed in a war zone". Just read the reports from the Administration's appointed Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction -SIGIR. This was about waste, fraud and corruption...much worse than anything we saw in Oil For Food. I'm not having it "both ways" as I hardly "believe in the UN" with my sarcastic comment about being shocked to find corruption and referring to it as "altogether irrelevant". If it closed tomorrow & it's useful functions farmed out to competent NGOs we'd all be better off. Kobayashi – our lost billions in Iraq were not just about “cash dispensed in a war zone”. Just read the reports from the Administration’s appointed Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction -SIGIR. This was about waste, fraud and corruption…much worse than anything we saw in Oil For Food. I’m not having it “both ways” as I hardly “believe in the UN” with my sarcastic comment about being shocked to find corruption and referring to it as “altogether irrelevant”. If it closed tomorrow & it’s useful functions farmed out to competent NGOs we’d all be better off.

]]> By: Kobayashi Maru http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/baghdad_bagman_bagged_the_sent/comment-page-1/#comment-642 Kobayashi Maru Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:15:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/02/23/baghdad-bagman-bagged-the-sentencing-of-tongsun-park/#comment-642 Mark - big difference between cash dispensed in a war zone <i>because the local banking system was unreliable and people wouldn't trust a check</i> and money dispensed with malice aforethought to dilute the will of an international body. One cannot have it both ways: if you believe in the UN, then you can't also make excuses for its debasement, nor can you criticize U.S. action that takes its resolutions at face value. Mark – big difference between cash dispensed in a war zone because the local banking system was unreliable and people wouldn’t trust a check and money dispensed with malice aforethought to dilute the will of an international body. One cannot have it both ways: if you believe in the UN, then you can’t also make excuses for its debasement, nor can you criticize U.S. action that takes its resolutions at face value.

]]> By: Mark Close http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/baghdad_bagman_bagged_the_sent/comment-page-1/#comment-641 Mark Close Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:11:54 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/02/23/baghdad-bagman-bagged-the-sentencing-of-tongsun-park/#comment-641 I remain amazed at how exercised people (especially conservatives) get about the corruption in the UN Oil for Food Program. OMG the UN is corrupt and the French & Russians are too; shocked, I’m just shocked. Meanwhile not a penny of US taxpayer dollars went missing, but about Iraq--where a minimum of $10 billion went missing and more was squandered—we hear nary a pip out of those outraged by the altogether irrelevant UN. I remain amazed at how exercised people (especially conservatives) get about the corruption in the UN Oil for Food Program. OMG the UN is corrupt and the French & Russians are too; shocked, I’m just shocked. Meanwhile not a penny of US taxpayer dollars went missing, but about Iraq–where a minimum of $10 billion went missing and more was squandered—we hear nary a pip out of those outraged by the altogether irrelevant UN.

]]> By: Brian http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/baghdad_bagman_bagged_the_sent/comment-page-1/#comment-640 Brian Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:32:33 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/02/23/baghdad-bagman-bagged-the-sentencing-of-tongsun-park/#comment-640 I noticed beneath his picture that Mr. Park seems to have his own website. So I went a-searching to see if so. And sure enough -- he <a href="http://www.tongsunpark.com/" rel="nofollow">does</a>. It's a rather immodest website, if I might be so bold, one not wanting of anecdotes of his background, his interests (well, some of them . . .), his awards, how he's been "Enriching South Korea's Culture" (yes, "enriching") and seems generally to be a monument to Mr. Park's overall humanitarian wonderfulness. There's even contact information, should anyone desire to wish him well during his tenure in the slammer. Brian I noticed beneath his picture that Mr. Park seems to have his own website. So I went a-searching to see if so.

And sure enough — he does.

It’s a rather immodest website, if I might be so bold, one not wanting of anecdotes of his background, his interests (well, some of them . . .), his awards, how he’s been “Enriching South Korea’s Culture” (yes, “enriching”) and seems generally to be a monument to Mr. Park’s overall humanitarian wonderfulness.

There’s even contact information, should anyone desire to wish him well during his tenure in the slammer.

Brian

]]> By: bourne2y http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/baghdad_bagman_bagged_the_sent/comment-page-1/#comment-639 bourne2y Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:15:03 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/02/23/baghdad-bagman-bagged-the-sentencing-of-tongsun-park/#comment-639 . . . and all along I thought Tongsun Park was a greenway in northwest D.C. . . . and all along I thought Tongsun Park was a greenway in northwest D.C.

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