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The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270
The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers ^

Posted on 01/28/2004 4:56:40 PM PST by rotstan

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To: Hun in the sun
"When judging on our point of view, you shouldn`t forget that we have been taught what WAR means."

Hmmmm...different experiences lead to different conclusions.

What we in the US we got from wars:

1. Independence from a tyrannical King (1783)
2. Respect from European colonizers.(18150
3. Deliverance from Slavery (1865)
4. Peace for the Europeans.(1918)
5. Destruction of powerful, genocidal, evil dictatorships. in Europe and Asia.(1945)
6. Liberty for 40 million Koreans. (1950)
7. Slowed the advance of rapacious vicious, torturing communists . (1965-1975)
8. Liberation of Kuwait. (1991)
9. Destruction of primary Al-Qaeda base, liberation of Afghanistan (2001-2004)
10. Elimination of major terrorist supporter, liberation of 23 million enslaved and starving Iraqis.(2003-2004)

141 posted on 01/28/2004 6:56:29 PM PST by cookcounty (JohnFKerry: "The only man in history to be on both sides of 3 wars.")
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To: William McKinley
Thanks....interesting.

142 posted on 01/28/2004 6:56:59 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: eastforker
...does voucher mean gift or allocation?

The full article at this link may clarify this a little. MEMRI describes them as voucher-allocations awarded outside the UN Food for Oil Program.

MEMRI: ...the issuing of vouchers by Saddam's regime may have served two primary purposes:
A: Payments in the form of bribes to individuals and organizations for their support of the regime.
B: Vouchers may have been issued to pay for goods and services that fell under U.N. Security Council sanctions and could not be financed under the "Oil for Food" program. Goods may have included military equipment or military parts, luxury automobiles that Saddam distributed as gifts inside and outside Iraq, and general luxury goods for the benefit of high-ranking officials in the Ba'ath party and government.

143 posted on 01/28/2004 6:57:14 PM PST by XHogPilot
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To: XHogPilot
Thanks.
144 posted on 01/28/2004 6:59:07 PM PST by eastforker (The color of justice is green,just ask Johny Cochran!)
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To: Sabertooth; JustPiper
Check out #5 and #16 on this thread.
145 posted on 01/28/2004 7:03:58 PM PST by sarasmom (No war for oil- Give France/Russia/China etc oil ,and no war-or so Saddam thought.)
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To: buwaya
" For just $ 1000 ?"

It's the legal limit. Maybe we should snoop around for money paid under the table (remember the Clinton / Gore Bhuddist Temple scam?)

146 posted on 01/28/2004 7:04:24 PM PST by cookcounty (JohnFKerry: "The only man in history to be on both sides of 3 wars.")
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To: XHogPilot
But the Syrian pipeline (which was one method of smuggling oil, certainly, and was not monitored in the oil-for-food program) would have yielded no more than 80-100 Million barrels annually.
147 posted on 01/28/2004 7:05:17 PM PST by buwaya
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To: VaBthang4
Oh, I see the different first names now...I will rescind my Kerry commentary, and apologize for just seeing the last name in the graph.

Thanks for clarifying.
148 posted on 01/28/2004 7:05:54 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: William McKinley
I do not know about Edwards but 1000$ limits are no real problem because it is almost impossible to prove that they have been violated.

To all: I do not think Kerry would sell out for 1000$. Senators retail for much more. So somebody is going to have to investigate and find a total, if such funding is going on.
149 posted on 01/28/2004 7:07:08 PM PST by DeepDish (This space for rent.)
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To: mewzilla
That jumped off the page to me too. Wasn't he the one that was so rabidly against the war in Iraq? No wonder.
150 posted on 01/28/2004 7:07:33 PM PST by CarolAnn
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To: MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; TEXOKIE; Alamo-Girl; windchime; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; ...
Partial list of the usual suspects.

"No war for oil" accusers wanted the oil ~ even at the price of mass graves, it appears.

151 posted on 01/28/2004 7:16:24 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl ("The chapter of Iraq's history - Saddam Hussein's reign of terror - is now closed." Lt. Gen. Sanchez)
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To: XHogPilot
Thank you for pinging me. This is becoming a very interesting thread as the freeper sleuths dig up more and more dirt.
152 posted on 01/28/2004 7:16:43 PM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
bttt
153 posted on 01/28/2004 7:18:48 PM PST by MEG33 (America will never seek a permission slip to provide for the security of our country)
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To: mewzilla
Wow. Galloway was the guy who was pedal to the metal opposed to Blair and the war, was he not?
154 posted on 01/28/2004 7:19:03 PM PST by My2Cents ("Failure is not an option.")
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To: cookcounty
http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/11/news/

  reminds us that the New York Times also received a copy of the McDermott tape.

This is consistent with the BBC serving so admirably a a propaganda conduit for Saddam Hussein ~ hey, that's today's news ~ lied through their teeth ~ Tony Blair absolved, etc., etc.

Wonder who they've got left over there at the Times to fire?!

155 posted on 01/28/2004 7:20:26 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: cookcounty
What we in the US got from wars:

The US military is good. (^:

Nice list. Mind if I borrow it?

156 posted on 01/28/2004 7:21:18 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl ("The chapter of Iraq's history - Saddam Hussein's reign of terror - is now closed." Lt. Gen. Sanchez)
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To: rotstan
WoW... Saddam was sure greasing a buttload of leftist groups with oil... not briefcases of money but tanker loads of oil.. no wonder the left globally rose up to condemn the war.. the democrats in this country ain't to happy about ol' swarthy Uncle Saddam getting his teeth checked and deloused and currently getting debriefed either..
157 posted on 01/28/2004 7:23:12 PM PST by hosepipe
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
"Mind if I borrow it?"

It's all yours.

--I'm a recovering pacifist. Was very anti-war in the on-campus sixties (Hanging around with the New Student Left-- precursor to SDS). The I got drafted. So I reported for duty with about 100 lbs of bad attitude in my duffel. By the time I got out, I was (slowly) re-thinking things.

And now my son is in Iraq, dispensing liberty to the sometimes confused iraqis. I'm very proud of him.

158 posted on 01/28/2004 7:27:20 PM PST by cookcounty (JohnFKerry: "The only man in history to be on both sides of 3 wars.")
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To: VaBthang4
Are you saying Shakir Al-Khafaji of Detroit, MI is the same person as Amir Al-Khafaji of McLean, VA?
159 posted on 01/28/2004 7:30:43 PM PST by XHogPilot
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To: Dog
I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one."
Come on .....we watched Clinton parse for 8 years......now re-read it and parse it....:-)

Parsing: who is your oil-smuggling / dealing agent?

160 posted on 01/28/2004 7:33:24 PM PST by GretchenEE (America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.)
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