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To: MamaLucci
"Claim that Baghdad has list of oil-for-food cash bribes"

Yep. Actually, this isn't the first time I heard it. Reporters from al Jazeera, the BBC and "American stations" were said to have been on the list. It's actually not a seperate one...it's from the original list which was partially published last Jnauary.

Saddam didn't use just oil vouchers: he used cars and houses to bribe reporters to spread his propaganda that US sanctions were killing a gazillion Iraqi children a year, Saddam was really a nice guy who's misunderstood, etc. Naturally, the public bought it over time. When you tell the same lies every day for years, the lies take on the patina of truth. Some reporters told those lies knowingly and for pay. I want to know their names.

Ever since, every time I hear some "objective" talking head spewing absolutely vile BS, I wonder if they were on the list.

94 posted on 05/01/2004 7:05:53 AM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: cake_crumb
Saddam didn't use just oil vouchers: he used cars and houses to bribe reporters to spread his propaganda that US sanctions were killing a gazillion Iraqi children a year,...

Fascinating......and the name "Dan Rather" comes immediately to mind.
FYI, I posted the NZ Herald article as a separate thread.
95 posted on 05/01/2004 7:11:49 AM PDT by MamaLucci (Libs, want answers on 911? Ask Clinton why he met with Monica more than with his CIA director.)
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