SADDAM'S U.N. SLUSH FUND

NYPOST ^ | March 7, 2004

[sopwith]

One week ago, The New York Times published a long article detailing how Saddam Hussein's government "systematically extracted billions of dollars in kickbacks from companies doing business with Iraq" as part of the U.N.'s Oil for Food program Susan Sachs' exhaustive article - the first time the Times has come near the growing Iraqi/U.N. Oil for Food scandal - explained how Iraq's foreign suppliers fed Saddam's slush funds.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Then again, the Times' decision to mention the existence the Oil for Food bribe list only an entire month after it was made public in Iraq is even more mysterious.

Nah... they were just tuckered out by blaming US sanctions for killing 100,000 Iraqi children a year.

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898147/posts
Master list FR posted articles on UN Food for Oil program
GailA ^ | 4/22/03 | Various

[blanknoone]

Was Pinch on the list?

[HankReardon]

Was George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, or Haliburton on the list?

[basil]

I don't think I have ever noticed a newspaper article that totally trashes another newspaper--by name! Made for an interesteing read.

[Savage Beast]

"Sachs' article breaks the Times' silence about how Saddam's regime used oil vouchers to bribe...goodwill ambassadors abroad"

"too briefly, Sachs mentions a list...of 267 companies and individuals who allegedly received...oil vouchers...politicians...Russian companies and officials...French Interior Minister--and--George Galloway, the antiwar British pol who was one of the Saddam's key mouthpieces

The Times article...neglects to mention Galloway or...the actual head of the U.N. Oil for Food program.

The "paper of record's" decision to keep silent...presumably had...to do with the paper's...support of the United Nations as an alternative to the Coalition...in Iraq."

And these people are worrying about whether Oprah paid Queer Eye to renovate somebody's apartment???

"The corruption and misuse of the Oil for Food program has long been an open secret"...

...and the complicity of the New York Times and other news outlets in keeping this secret is part of the corruption.

[Fun Bob]

Demand a public accounting of the UN Oil for Food program. There are still billions missing. The UN was profiteering as bad as any country, company, or individual.

miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure war criminal

[Tacis]

The Times won't cover the oil vouchers story nor report on what others uncover! Neither will the neocommunists in broadcasting, the usual lefties ABCCBSNBCCNN, say any more about this story than is ABSOLUTELY necessary! Why? Because, it will lead to Willie and the filth and corruption of his White House sewer dwellers!!

My bet is that the mountains of Iraqi oil cash hidden in Switzerland were the direct motive for Foster's murder, Suzie's time in jail and several other inexplicable actions by the Arkies.

The continuing mystery today, however, is the fact that no one in our government seems to be screaming for an investigation! The dumb Republicans allow the crap weasels to demand an investigation of Senate memos, W's pre-9/11 briefings and then attack the findings when the results are what everyone knew at the start.

We must have a major investigation of who got the oil vouchers and where the cash is today.. I don't care whether the president of Indonesia is allowed to accept gifts or what he did with his cash, I want to know whether any Americans got vouchers, what they did in return and whether they paid the necessary taxes on their gifts. LET'S HEAR SOME SCREAMING FROM OUR SIDE!!!

[Just mythoughts]

This leads to such an obvious question;

What did the Clintons know and when did they know it?

[mass55th]

Fox & Friends Brian Kilmeade asked Kerry this question: Seeing as France, Germany and Russia were getting kickbacks in the U.N.'s Oil for Food program, did he (Kerry) now believe that they would have ever come around to support the war. Kerry's reply was "yes." Of course he didn't elaborate as to why he believed that or what he would have done to get their cooperation. I'd love one of the journalists to ask him this same question during an upcoming debate and make him go into detail on it.

[CyberAnt]

Noooo! And Rush made a big deal about it. After all the whining about Bush going to war just for oil - it turned out the ones who yelled that the loudest - the French - were on the list. Typical!

[cyncooper]

Was George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, or Haliburton on the list?

No.

[HankReardon]

So, it was all about oil and money! For the French, Germans and Russians!

[cyncooper]

You got it Hank.

When they said "No war for oil", they meant "don't touch OUR oil".

[squidly]

One wonders if certain Congressmen from Washington or Oregon were on the list.

[cyncooper]

One wonders if certain Congressmen from Washington or Oregon were on the list.

Welllllll, the guy who funded Scott Ritter's pro-Iraq movie is on the list, and he also donated to Jim McDermott's legal fund--right after McDermott returned from Iraq the fall before the war.

[eaglesrare8]

The worst part of the findings is that the USA will NOT do anything about it. They will not pull out of the UN or attempt to eject France,Germany and Russia from the UN. The UN is purely an enemy of the USA. I'm sure we can find a better use of the approximate 30 million dollars we pay as a member. They vote against the US the majority of times anyway. I think the majority of Americans would choose to get rid of the UN.

[maine-iac7]

Was George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, or Haliburton on the list?
................
if anyone remotely connected - like was in the same town on the same day as - to Bush or any of the others, it would've been all over everywhere for months. You can bet your bootie that the dems have been combing these reports over for months looking for one scintilla that they could use - particularly since the WHOLE report is showing exactly why it was not only right, bur crucial that Bush took Saddam out.

[maine-iac7]

Hank Reardon, hmmm

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