[Stultis]

Jack, first shoot your lawyer. O.K., you've done that? Good, now... Oh, well, that was it actually.

[snarks_when_bored]

Jack, Jack, you've hired Lanny Davis to defend you? Mr.-Amway-Salesman? Mr.-Democrat's-Democrat? Mr.-I'll-Do-Anything-Hillary-Or-Bill-Tells-Me-To-Do?

Say it ain't so, Jack, say it ain't so.

[Brian Allen]

<< A blistering letter written by former vice-presidential candidate Jack Kemp to congressional leaders, criticizing the 1998 U.S. bombing of Iraq [Points to the fact Kemp] .... was promoting a secret agenda on behalf of Saddam Hussein's oil spy in the United States, The Post has learned ....

In a statement .... Kemp's office, Empower Americaclaimed he] "believed Vincent was "motivated by the national security of the United States and thought the Iraqi government believed the sanctions could never be lifted, which he said he believed was leading them to obstruct inspectors from coming into the country."

.... "Knowing what we know now, the question is: Where did Jack Kemp get this stuff?

"It looks like Samir Vincent did a very good lobbying job."

..... Kemp's lawyer, Lanny Davis, said last week that he believes Kemp .... "did not know [He, Kemp] was [Effectively] on Saddam's payroll.

Yair.

Right.

The whiny little career-politician bastard.

[piasa]

Where did Kemp get that idea? Well, that line about Iraq not believing sanctions could ever be lifted comes from Maddie Albright, who told the Iraqis flat out that even if they complied with the UN demands sanctions would ever be lifted.

[cyncooper]

One congressional official involved in the U.N. oil-for-food investigation said, "Knowing what we know now, the question is: Where did Jack Kemp get this stuff?

Any bets on which side of the aisle this "congressional official" hails from?

This pushing Kemp to the forefront of a scandal in which he seems to have been at worst a useful fool (as opposed to intentionally undermining the U.S. and actually pro-actively helping Saddam Hussein, which is--let's keep in mind--what the real scandal and the long list of barrels of oil recipients is all about) is meant to obfuscate and when the dem names start getting attention, meant to be used as "they all do it".

But they don't all do it, and it would be wise to keep in mind what this investigatin and scandal are all about.

[cynicom]

Kemp has no brains. Pimp for oil, hire Davis as a lawyer? Best Kemp be put away in old fools home before he hurts himself.

[Rockingham]

Once again, Jack Kemp is shown to have made the kind of bone head mistake that spoiled his political career. Against that, Kemp's single great accomplishment nevertheless endures: his passionate and successful advocacy of massive, across the board tax cuts spurred Reagan's candidacy in 1980 and, when those cuts were enacted, reversed an era of American pessimism and decline.

[Drango]

Long ago I cut up my Empower America card. I know them not.

[roses of sharon]

Kemp was one of many, many, conservative, Republicans, think tanks, world-governments, intellectuals who wanted the sanctions lifted on Saddam and Sons.

As did the NYT editorialize in those days.

Many believe that the supposed "containment" of Saddam and Sons was immoral and consigned millions to tryanny.

That was the debate before 9/11, can we trust Saddam and sons without sanctions?

Are they hurting the Iraqis too much?

Which is why Bush, Cheney, Rummsfeld, ect, chose "regime" change as their main argument for war, along with the Congressional resolution from l998, until Tony Blair talked Bush out of it, so he, Blair, could have the cover of UN resolutions, which Powell agreed with, and Cheney did not.

It is very interesting.