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AFTER THE WAR: The Oil-For-Food Scandal (long)
The Wall Street Journal (opinionjournal.com) ^ | 11 March 2004 | Therese Raphael

Posted on 03/11/2004 7:50:44 AM PST by Moose4

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

"If there is evidence, we would investigate it very seriously," Kofi Annan insisted last month when presented with allegations that U.N. officials knew about and may have benefited from Saddam Hussein's corruption of the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program. Fortunately, Saddam appears to have been a stickler for record-keeping.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: corruption; foodforoil; iraq; oilforfood; un; unitednations
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This is a long read and a bit complicated to follow, but really shows just how deep the corruption at the UN was regarding the "oil-for-food" program with Iraq. It sheds some light on just why so much of the UN was so against us invading Iraq...they were getting rich off the suffering of the Iraqi people and the paybacks from their friend Saddam.

}:-)4

1 posted on 03/11/2004 7:50:47 AM PST by Moose4
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To: Moose4
Why am I not surprised? There is no wonder the UN didn't support a liberation. Its like the little Tennessee County in "Walking Tall". All the people that should be looking out for the law are on the take.

Will this story be on the evening news with Dan Rather and the others? I think I answered my own question.

2 posted on 03/11/2004 7:59:42 AM PST by oyez
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To: Howlin; cyncooper
"Discovering" the Oil-For-Food scandal...
3 posted on 03/11/2004 8:09:46 AM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: MizSterious
Still.

Now, how far ahead of the curve were we on this one?

We need a talk show. :-)
4 posted on 03/11/2004 8:10:53 AM PST by Howlin (Charter Member of the Incredible Interlocking Institutional Power!!!!)
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To: Moose4
There was a lot more last year in the WSJ, in an article titled "Kofi Annanderson." One thing interesting here is that bill clinton was probably in this too:

Mr. Maugein, a billionaire with close ties to Jacques Chirac, is a longtime associate of the trader and former fugitive Marc Rich, who fled to Europe in 1983 to avoid answering charges of racketeering, illegal trading and dodging a tax-bill of $48 million. (Mr. Rich was pardoned by Bill Clinton in his final hours in the White House). Mr. Maugein was also a close contact of Tariq Aziz, with whom he met regularly. He is the non-executive chairman of Soco International PLC, a publicly listed London-based petroleum exploration/production company, which goes into markets the majors tend to skip--Mongolia, Vietnam, North Korea, Libya and Yemen.

Note the countries involved. It wouldn't surprise me if good old John F'n Kerry is involved as well, given his French family and Vietnamese business connections.

5 posted on 03/11/2004 8:13:08 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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6 posted on 03/11/2004 9:17:15 AM PST by StriperSniper (Manuel Miranda - Whistleblower)
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To: Cicero; Grampa Dave; seamole; gaspar; mrustow; GailA; Peach; okie01; blam; thierrya
Good read bump.
7 posted on 03/11/2004 9:53:05 AM PST by Shermy
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To: Moose4
btt
8 posted on 03/11/2004 10:06:02 AM PST by GailA (Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
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To: Shermy
MASTER LIST OIL FOR FOOD SCANDAL
9 posted on 03/11/2004 10:38:15 AM PST by GailA (Millington Rally for America after action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/872519/posts)
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To: GailA; 1Mike; 3catsanadog; ~Vor~; ~Kim4VRWC's~; A CA Guy; A Citizen Reporter; abner; Aeronaut; ...
More Oil for Iraq!
10 posted on 03/11/2004 10:39:10 AM PST by Howlin (Charter Member of the Incredible Interlocking Institutional Power!!!!)
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To: GailA
#9 bump.

BTW, the articles I (mostly) archived are at the "foodforoil" key word. I tried to keep it limited to the best articles, IMO.
11 posted on 03/11/2004 10:43:37 AM PST by Shermy
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To: Howlin
Please let Fox run that interview w/Raphael as often as they do the Peterson, Jackson, Kobe stuff. I missed it. Drat it.
12 posted on 03/11/2004 10:51:06 AM PST by Carolinamom (Currently re-programming my thinking to positive mode.)
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To: Carolinamom
Watch Neil Cavuto. He'll run it.
13 posted on 03/11/2004 10:53:14 AM PST by Howlin (Charter Member of the Incredible Interlocking Institutional Power!!!!)
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To: Moose4
"if the U.N.'s credibility is to be restored and its role in Iraq and elsewhere trusted."

Hell will freeze over first.
14 posted on 03/11/2004 11:01:54 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: Howlin; GailA
Is this the biggest news day in a long time or what?
15 posted on 03/11/2004 11:06:32 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the TrackBall into the Sunset...)
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To: backhoe
And it's only 2 PM EST.
16 posted on 03/11/2004 11:10:13 AM PST by Howlin (Charter Member of the Incredible Interlocking Institutional Power!!!!)
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To: backhoe
"Demo staffer involved in treason"
How did I miss this one?
17 posted on 03/11/2004 11:12:13 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: Moose4
I wonder how many vouchers Blix got.
18 posted on 03/11/2004 11:43:29 AM PST by PsyOp (Without an accurate conception of danger we cannot understand war. - Clauswitz, On War, 1832..)
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To: Moose4
Also posted at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095283/posts
19 posted on 03/11/2004 11:55:56 AM PST by hripka (There are a lot of smart people out there in FReeperLand)
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To: Bahbah
"Demo staffer involved in treason"
How did I miss this one?

American Citizen Charged with Spying (for Iraq) - Update: Former Moseley-Braun Aide

It's a great thread. Sure to be a FR Hall-of-Fame classic.

20 posted on 03/11/2004 1:34:23 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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