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http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/oilforfood/2001/0629dogs.htm
Accusing the United Nations of corruption, a senior Iraqi official yesterday said the world body spent more on sniffer dogs in heat than feeding ordinary Iraqis suffering under decade-old sanctions.
In a more than two hour address to the UN Security Council, Riyadh Al Qaysi, an undersecretary in Baghdad's foreign ministry, demanded an audit for UN officials, alleging they were skimming off and wasting funds in managing the oil-for-food humanitarian programme for Iraq.
He said the program had spent more money on per sniffer dog sent to uncover mines in the north than Baghdad was able to spend on food per person. The 28 dogs, he said, needed trainers, two guides, a vet and "bitches so they can allay their sexual desire" after "suffering from inertia."
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"So many Garfields and they are getting fatter," he said. referring to the chubby lasanga-eating cartoon cat. In response, U.S. representative James Cunningham said Al Qaysi's speech was full of blustering, denial, attacks on the Security Council and attacks on the U.N. secretariat."
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