[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Using Shermy's --Galloway ping list --- this might be of interest!

[annyokie]

Thanks for the ping!

[Magnolia]

That process is just now beginning--a fact that is surely rattling nerves around the world.

hehehe...thanks for the ping Ernest. VERY intriguing post.

[cyncooper]

Yes, it is of great interest.

Thanks for the ping.

[Grampa Dave]

"Saddam Hussein has a long history of bribing anyone who could help his regime--businessmen, diplomats, politicians, and journalists. Throughout the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, Saddam lavished Arab leaders with gifts and contracts in exchange for their support. Shortly before his 1990 invasion of Kuwait, he shipped 100 new Mercedes 200 Series cars to top editors in Egypt and Jordan. Two days before the first attack, he offered Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak $50 million in cash, ostensibly for grain. After the invasion, he sought to buy neutrality or at least complacency by promising Mubarak and other Arab leaders that he would forgive all Kuwaiti debts once Iraq annexed the tiny nation as its nineteenth province."

If Soddomite gave/paid/offered these great deals in the early 1990's, what he offered since 9/11 and last September to the current Iraqi would make those deals look petty.

With GW/Rummy/Powell/Blair, Soddomite knew his days were over unless he could buy off enought traitors to stop his Regime change.