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Halliburton to Blame for Missing Oil For Food Money, Not U.N. (WI Liberal Op/Ed)
Madison.com ^ | July 5, 2005 | John Smart

Posted on 07/05/2005 4:08:58 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

A letter to the editor July 5, 2005

Dear Editor:

The Bush administration and its minions in Congress have been attacking Kofi Annan and others in the United Nations for supposedly mishandling the Oil for Food program funds collected by the U.N. from the regime of Saddam Hussein.

The administration is using this bogus issue to attempt to put the seriously flawed John Bolton in place as our ambassador to the U.N., supposedly because we need someone tough to effect much-needed reform.

Well, now we find that some of those funds (a whole lot actually) had been deposited in the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, and the Pentagon, our own government, withdrew that money (the largest cash transfer in the history of the New York Fed) and, well ... we don't really know what they did with it.

According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, "It weighed 28 tons and took up as much room as 74 washing machines. It was $2,401,600,000 in $100 bills, and Baghdad needed it ASAP." They piled all that money into U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo planes and shipped it to someone in Baghdad a year ago, on June 22, 2004.

Now why would they need $2.4 billion (yes, that's billion!) in $100 bills? That makes it sort of difficult to account for, doesn't it? $100 bills? It appears that other old friends of the administration, Dick Cheney's good buddies at Halliburton, were to take charge of it and see to its distribution. Oh yeah? How does it happen that Halliburton can be given that kind of responsibility, when they've been reprimanded repeatedly for overcharging and for irresponsible use of taxpayers' dollars?

Makes it sort of difficult to lay blame on Kofi Annan's son, Kojo, doesn't it? That issue is being investigated, by the way, and we don't know yet whether Kojo or his father did anything even questionable. But we sure as hell know that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Vice President Cheney and our own Pentagon did!

Why do we put up with this? Will we allow these people to set their sights on destroying the United Nations in order to cover up their own blunders and protect their "glorious mandate"?

The U.N. may well be the last, best hope, you know. Do we want to leave as the legacy of these years that we sat passively by and watched the United Nations being throttled by dangerous men and women and cheap politics? I certainly don't.

John Smart Park Falls, WI


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: blame; halliburton; iraq; oilforfood
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"That issue is being investigated, by the way, and we don't know yet whether Kojo or his father did anything even questionable. But we sure as hell know that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Vice President Cheney and our own Pentagon did!"

Well, I'm glad that's all cleared up now. *Rolleyes*

1 posted on 07/05/2005 4:08:59 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

DU'er on dope.


2 posted on 07/05/2005 4:10:53 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yes. Thank you, John Smart of Park Falls, WI, for pointing out the obvious. How on earth did the rest of us miss it? < / sarcasm>


3 posted on 07/05/2005 4:12:24 PM PDT by DGray (http://nicanfhilidh.blogspot.com)
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To: facedown

No! they are either a college student or professor at the college.


4 posted on 07/05/2005 4:13:26 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Diana how do you put up with this stuff all the time? I suppose the beautiful country side helps.


5 posted on 07/05/2005 4:15:12 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

LoL.
I think that last name is a misnomer.


6 posted on 07/05/2005 4:15:44 PM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Quick! Someone call Dan Rather!


7 posted on 07/05/2005 4:17:11 PM PDT by concerned about politics (Vote Republican - Vote morally correct!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I am curious where this money went and why it was in this denomination.


8 posted on 07/05/2005 4:17:43 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"It weighed 28 tons and took up as much room as 74 washing machines..."

Top loading or front loading? Large capacity or super? Compact or standard?

9 posted on 07/05/2005 4:19:24 PM PDT by LRS
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Liberal nut cases like this are the best entertainment in the world. Reading things like this make me wonder what it must be like to be completely and undeniably delusional.
10 posted on 07/05/2005 4:19:49 PM PDT by SaveTheChief (There are 10 types of people -- those who understand binary, and those who don't.)
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11 posted on 07/05/2005 4:20:03 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (I can resist everything except temptation. --Oscar Wilde.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Don't you just love Madison?


12 posted on 07/05/2005 4:20:46 PM PDT by SJackson (Israel should know if you push people too hard they will explode in your faces, Abed. palestinian)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Uh, John? It was 21 BILLION buckadingdongs that was involved. More than the entire GDP of 2/3 of the world's countries. This wasn't a bunch of bills in a C-130 we're talking about here.


13 posted on 07/05/2005 4:20:53 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
According to a report from the Los Angeles Times,

Well that settles it if the LA slimes reported it it must be true. /sarcasm

14 posted on 07/05/2005 4:25:22 PM PDT by federal
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; All
I'm sure his attention span is too short to follow the hundreds of links I've compiled, but...

Click this picture & go to the "last" for the latest UN scandals:


If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

15 posted on 07/05/2005 4:29:35 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Undocumented Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; satchmodog9

They conveniently didn't mention this paragraph from the story:


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cash22jun22,1,6880462.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

>>>>The cash — a total of 363 tons, generated mostly from oil revenues — was Iraqi funds that had been held in trust by the Federal Reserve under the terms of a United Nations resolution.<<<<
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But when I did a google search, I had to go past page after page of anti-Bush websites to try and find the story. Also, no one else reported it?

You should write a letter yourself and mention this.


16 posted on 07/05/2005 4:38:03 PM PDT by eyespysomething ( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Typical Democrat.


17 posted on 07/05/2005 4:40:13 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: eyespysomething

Ah, the truth does come out. Thanks for the link. All I wanted was an answer.


18 posted on 07/05/2005 4:42:21 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

John isn't very.


19 posted on 07/05/2005 4:45:05 PM PDT by Bars4Bill
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To: satchmodog9

Me too. That's why I went in search of.


20 posted on 07/05/2005 4:49:20 PM PDT by eyespysomething ( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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