NEWSWEEK: Democrat Donor received $22 million in "Oil for Food" Scandal

The Kerry Fairy ^ | 10/10/04 | Becki Snow

[Maria S]

WYATT, LYNN S
HOUSTON,TX 77027
N/A/HOMEMAKER
3/31/2004
$25,000
Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte

[Libertina]

No doubt the lazy, lying big MSM will report he is a TEXAN, but not that he is a DEOMOCRAT.

[piasa]

Good summary

[dandelion]

That's SWEET! You're quite the digger I see!

Man, I walk away for a few hours, and between you and the others, there's nothing left to dig!

But I'm still digging anyway. If nothing else, this will DESTROY any arguments they try to make against President Bush...

[Casaubon]

like that...hehe...i was rolling

[Paul Atreides]

John F'n: We are taking 90% of the casualties, but let's give the French and Germans a share in the reconstruction.

[meyer]

John F'n: We are taking 90% of the casualties, but let's give the French and Germans a share in the reconstruction.

Yep - Wyatt's the deflection since he gave money to the RNC, even though he gave 5:1 to DNC/liberals. The liberals will push the donation issue through the media in order to keep people's minds off the real issue, which is France and Germany's involvement in the Food/Oil scam. We need to remember not to fight the DNC/RNC ratio so much as to attack the real issue. Keep your eye on the ball.

[WeddingPlanner]

At end of this morning's Chris Matthews Show, Matthews said to his panel members: "tell me something I don't know."

Panel member and NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell said (I'll paraphrase here): "The French are furious that they were fingered for corruption in the UN Oil for Food program, but Americans who profited off of the program were left out in the report as released. It will come out that Texan oil men were also involved in the program."

Matthews: "An R next to their names or a D?"

Mitchell: "An R."

I haven't read everything on this thread yet, but last week when Terry McAuliffe was screeching to Ed Gillespie on Fox & Friends, in his tirade he hollered something like "Yeah, and names are going to come out connected with the Oil for Food scandal . . ." and went on to try to indicate that they were Republican names.

Was he trying to spin it already because he knew or at that time did he only know that there were 'names' and he didn't know yet which ones, and was trying to direct the flow?

Gillespie just had a kind of chesire cat smile on his face.

[piasa]

Oscar has a lot of dealings with Libya -

Can't help but notice that Libya and Iraq are common themes in just about anything revolving around the top dogs in DNC politics these days. There's this little hint about it here : Wyatt is renowned in the Texas oil industry for starting Coastal with an $800 loan in 1950 and forging deals with former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Libya's Muammar Qaddafi. In 2001 he sold Coastal to El Paso Corp. for $24 billion. ---- http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&refer=us&sid=aN6AaZHFcBAI as retrieved on May 25, 2004 03:35:42 GMT.

[Fedora]

Thanks; though I'm sure there's lots of digging left to do yet, LOL! There's a whole history of Democrat oil scandals which largely goes undiscussed in the midst of the left's single-minded obsession with the notion that the oil business is a Republican monopoly. I've yet to put together the pieces myself, but I believe researching these figures would be a step towards putting the big picture together:

Armand Hammer (who was, not coincidentally, a central conduit for Soviet money to the US Communist Party)
Averell Harriman
Harold Ickes (father and son)
Lyndon Johnson
J. William Fulbright
Clark Clifford
Lloyd Bentsen
Al Gore
Mary Landrieu
And of course the present subject, Oscar Wyatt

Among others, undoubtedly.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[piasa]

Was this guy on any of Hazel O'Leary's flying carpet trips to south asia?

[Humidston]

>>Headline
"Texas oil tycoon and political donor received dirty money from Saddam"<<

My idea of headline
"Texas Oil Tycoon connected to Saddam's Oil for Food program - big $200K donor to Bush/Republicans"

[Rollee]

Very interesting!

[cookcounty]

" Suddenly the fact that Kerry hasn't been beaten W. about the head with an Enron stick makes perfect sense, in hypocritical ironic fashion."

I've never understood how the Enron story should hurt Bush. You forget that Enron got away with its dirty tricks under Clinton. Enron began to go down within weeks of W taking office. Ken Lay slept at the White House when CLINTON was President. It's for the Democrats to explain their looking the other way, NOT BUSH.

Of course, Dan Rather would be quick to point out that Lay and Bush are both from Texas! That's all the proof SeeBS requires, and Brokaw and Jennings are aghast that mere citizens should have the audacity to criticize one of the Great Self-Annointed Oracles of Wisdom.

[macbee]

"United Nations: Oil-for-Food Fiasco?"

Arrgh! First uber-wonk Kuhn's complete misuse of the term "infer", now this from MSNBC.

The UN "Oil-for-Food" program can be called many things: a debacle, a fraud, possibly a crime of the highest magnitude. It is NOT, however, a fiasco. That description is reserved for pretentious undertakings (usually creative) which fail completely and is far too polite a term for what the UN allowed to happen. Bad opening nights on Broadway may be called "fiascos"; systematic fraud, bribery, and diversion of resources resulting in the starvation of innocents (including children) is something far, far worse.

[justshutupandtakeit]

great article.

[Quix]

THANKS TONS,

Sent to my email list.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Is this our October Surprise?

[dalebert]

Exactly, Its Bush's fault again.