[wildbill]

Andrea Mitchell said on TV this morning that most of the Texas oilmen were republicans.

That may or may not be true, but my question is this: Why should anyone be surprised that oil companies and oilmen should be in the business of buying oil in the Oil for Food program?

Unless it's proven that they gave Saddam a kickback from their profits illegally, I don't understand why their being in the market for oil is a questionable activity.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Unless it's proven that they gave Saddam a kickback from their profits illegally, I don't understand why their being in the market for oil is a questionable activity.

A very important distinction here is that Oscar Wyatt was sending Saddam kickbacks so he could:
1) get more oil contracts from Saddam
2) Saddam could use that kickback money to buy weapons to kill GIs

To my knowledge, the 4 Oil Companies in question were not accused of kicking back $$$ to Saddam
OFF was set up and run by the UN, so of course US oil companies would be involved.
The question is: did they kick back money to Saddam.

As for the 3 individuals in question:
Wyatt Announced in March 1997 that he would retire and begin lobbying in Washington to lift sanctions against Iraq and Libya.

Samir Vincent is an anti-war activist

Mr. Khafaji financed a controversial film about Iraq by Scott Ritter, the former United Nations arms inspector who opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq.

The 3 individual in question were Saddam tools.