While having gay Arab translators is too much for our precious US government to bear, it is no holds barred (apparently) for one member of the US weapons inspector team...

From today's Washington Post:

The United Nations launched perhaps its most important weapons inspections ever yesterday with a team that includes a 53-year-old Virginia man with no specialized scientific degree and a leadership role in sadomasochistic sex clubs.

The United Nations acknowledged yesterday that it did not conduct a background check on Harvey John "Jack" McGeorge of Woodbridge, who was in New York waiting to be sent to Iraq as a munitions analyst. McGeorge was picked for the diplomatically sensitive mission over some of the most experienced disarmament sleuths in the world. A U.N. spokesman said McGeorge was part of a group recommended by the State Department, which in turn said it was merely forwarding names for consideration.

The article can be found here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48596-2002Nov27.html

And they say Americans have no sense of irony...