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SADDAM'S U.N. SLUSH FUND
NYPOST ^ | March 7, 2004

Posted on 03/07/2004 5:56:57 AM PST by sopwith

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:19:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: oilforfood; saddam; un
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To: 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."

FOS

Only in bizzaro world. The more that time and events go by I believe there is something Very Serious percolating under the surface. A vote for Kerry in this election is tantamount to ceding US soverignty ( subtlety) to the EU, U N and US Transnational Elites. Kerry is an empty vessel for someone, maybe Kennedy, maybe worse.

21 posted on 10/10/2004 9:08:59 PM PDT by Helms (nu-ance : [ from KERRY French, from nuer, to Shade the Truth via Language and Subvert Reality])
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