My my! A report from the Democrats on a Senate committee.
"The report found that US oil purchases accounted for 52 per cent of kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil under the UN's food for oil programme - more than the rest of the world put together."
Notice how the time period under which this occurred is not mentioned.
"The report found that US oil purchases accounted for 52 per cent of kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil under the UN's food for oil programme - more than the rest of the world put together."
This is no secret. But the accounting was. Yet, the paper fails to mention that.
"The scale of the shipments is understood to dwarf those alleged to have been made by UN staff and European politicians such as Galloway and the former French minister Charles Pasqua."
Our own Senators are protecting the UN and the corrupt European politicians with this report. The American people will see right through this.
"The new report accuses the Bush government of failing to take action against a Texas oil company which facilitated payments of "at least $37 million in illegal surcharges to the Hussein regime".
It also states that the State Department and the US military agreed to the shipment of nearly eight million barrels of oil bought by Jordan outside the Oil For Food programme.
It was not clear whether the Democrats' report would be accepted by the Republicans on the committee. The Pentagon declined to comment"
I bet it is not clear! The dems need to be outed.
Ping...for a friend and fellow patriot:)
Is this the best they can do?
What did the Democrats do? They were in power longer than Bush? I suppose Clinton never received a contribution from a single oil man.
Yep. Galloway has followed the canned American Democrat script by first denial and then making counter-accusations, and the Dems have seen it as a jolly chance to smear Bush. It's essentially a risk-free plan, but nobody who isn't already a True Believer will see this as anything but an evasion.
If the sales were approved by the UN program, the US had no power to say they were illegal. Well, the US actually did complain about these things going on, but the UN pretty much told the US to STFU.
This is the second British news report that I've seen on this. The one from the Guardian was similar.
Funny, on the one hand you have sales to an oil company & on the other we have vouchers being handed out to politicians & the Brits are not able to tell that there's any kind of difference?
Um, the Bush administrationremoved Hussein, thus stopping the oli-for-palaces program, and isn't the head of Bay Oil, David Chalmers, now been arrested on these very charges? Sounds like nothing happened UNTIL Bush came into office.
I hope the stupid DNC/media do put this in the news cycle because the American people are too smart to fall for this BS.
But I doubt they will at least not now because it will get blown full of holes, plus it will be hard to convince Americans President Bush did nothing when he had the military remove Saddam from power.
This is fodder for the lefty wackos.
Gee, ya kow, when the DOJ asks Bill & Hill about ther oil kickback, why, ya know, they (DOJ) could ask them to return the FBI files, couldn't they? Harry Ried can be of help too.
We're supposed to believe that the U.S. decided on a whim to frame an obscure, leftwing pissant member of parliament by planting forged documents in a bombed-out building in Baghdad and arranged for them to be found by a foreign journalist. Simultaneously, US agents broke into the UN and placed several boxes of forged documents that tied MP Galloway to Kofi Annan and Saddam Hussein, showing that Galloway received Iraqi oil vouchers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. We're also to believe that Galloway's luxury villa in Portugal was purchased with money that he saved selling Ginsu steak knives on a streetcorner in London.
As usual, the Dems accuse without evidence.