This investigation was done in 2004, but this testimony of Mr. Jed Babbin, Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, is so relevant today. This testimoney was given before the United Nations Oil for Food Program investigation by the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, July 8, 2004.

The investigation was based on the Oil for Food probe, but the conclusions reached by Babbin were stunning:

As serious as the Oil for Food scandal may be, it is – after all – only about money. There is a corruption in the UN and its agencies that is far more important to every American. It is not financial corruption. It is a moral corruption, a decadence of thinking and reasoning that tolerates terrorism. No, it is more than tolerance: it is acceptance of terrorists and the nations that support them evidencing a moral bankruptcy that is unimaginable to most Americans. Let me give you a few examples:

• Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed terrorist organization that has more American blood on its hands than any other terrorist organization except al-Queda. They murdered 241 Marines in the infamous 1983 Beirut barracks bombing. They kidnapped, tortured and murdered Marine Col. William “Rich” Higgins, as well as CIA Station Chief William Buckley. On page 155 of “Inside the Asylum” there is a picture of a “UN peacekeepers’” position on the Israel-Lebanon border. A copy of that picture is attached to this statement. In it, you see two flags flying side by side. One is the UN flag, the other the flag of Hezbollah. While in Israel last November, I spoke to an Israeli soldier who had been stationed at an IDF post on the Israeli side. He told me how the UN “peacekeepers” lived in comfortable coexistence with the murderers of Hezbollah, using the same telephones, sharing water supplies. Were it up to me, not another American dime would be paid to the UN while that Hezbollah flag flies. I wonder: how many other terrorists take advantage of similar UN hospitality elsewhere in the Middle East and around the world?

• The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East – UNRWA – is supposed to be dispensing humanitarian aid and educational services in the Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In “Inside the Asylum”, I quote from the testimony of Professor Rashid Khalidi of the University of Chicago. In a US District Court case, his affidavit said that UNRWA hires members of Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Hamas and Islamic Jihad in disregard of their terrorist ties. I don’t know how many US tax dollars or private donations by Americans go to UNRWA. Whatever the total, if it’s above zero, it’s too much;

• Most importantly, the UN is serving as midwife to the birth of nuclear terrorism. The International Atomic Energy Agency cannot agree on the obvious, that for more than two decades the kakistocracy that runs Iran has been working desperately to produce a nuclear weapon. If the IAEA acted, the Security Council could sanction Iran and maybe, just maybe, we could abort nuclear terrorism without having to resort to war to do so. But the IAEA is willfully ignorant to Iran’s intent and progress. America cannot allow Iran to achieve its nuclear ambitions. By failing to act, by refusing to allow the UN to act diplomatically while it may yet have some effect, the UN is making war more likely, not less.

This is a very significant piece to read, as it is not only timeless, but right now in history, it is timely. Again, educate yourselves.

Moreover, why do we continue to participate in the United Nations, or allow them to try to dictate our activities? They’ve proved themselves a long time ago as an impotent, worthless organization, so why are they wasting so much prime real estate in New York? Your guess is as good as mine, but I want us OUT of the U.N. In the latest war against terrorism, Kofi has obviously come down on the side of Hezbollah, which cannot be excused. As Michelle Malkin recenly revealed, UN & Hezbollah flags have flown side by side, as noted above. When will somebody wake up and do something about this? When will John Bolton be released from his obvious PC-restraints that disallow him from doing what needs to be done? That is, getting the US out of the UN, and getting the UN out of the US!?!?!