The New York Times carries a small story about another rift between the U.S. and the United Nations.

The U.S. claims that hard currency money for United Nations agricultural programs in North Korea was spend in a way that bolstered the North Korean regime.

The U.S. delivered "samples of papers" from 2001-2002 to the U.N. that claim that payments were made by the U.N. to some companies that ended up with the North Korean regime. Curiously, those papers included computer vendor codes only in use at the U.N. since 2004.

The papers also allege that the U.N. Development Program gave some $15 million to North Korea between 2001 and 2005, part of which was spend to buy houses in Washington and London. But the total U.N.D.P. budget for North Korea in those years was only $10 million.

There are several other points, all more or less lunatic, that the U.N. rejects as false.

One person pushing this on the U.S. side is Senator Norm Coleman who also pushed the oil-for-food scandal. (Remember George Galloway giving him a lecture (video)) According to Senator Levin, the oil-for-food profits were was mostly made by U.S. companies with full official U.S. knowledge. Coleman’s allegations were simply wrong.

As we recently learned, Coleman is seriously off his meds. He is missing a good joint. Recently he wrote a letter to his constituenty in which he damned pot smokers. A former friend took the chance to remind him of the pounds of pot Coleman enjoyed himself during his time on campus. Ordid those damage him beyond repair?

Another pusher on the U.S. side is the ambassador to the U.N. for management issues, Mark D. Wallace. He raise to that post under John Bolton in 2006. His wife is White House communications director Nicolle Wallace. Before his job at the U.N. Wallace was campaign director for Bush/Cheney 2004.
Before that:

Wallace served as Legal Counsel in 2000 for the Bush-Cheney Florida Presidential Recount Legal Team and served as the "Campaign’s lead counsel in Palm Beach County and appeared before the County Canvassing Board, various trial and appellate courts and participated in the briefing before the Florida Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court." Wallace was also Co-Chairman of the Florida State Advisory Board, Lawyers for Bush-Cheney ’00, Inc.

That experience certainly qualifies to come up with falsified stuff.

Wallace, like Coleman, is part of the hard right which wants to sabotage any deal with North Korea. If the United Nations is damaged as a collateral, that’s even better to them.

Is there any way to get rid of these nuts?