[GLH3IL]

Has anyone heard about this? What the situation might be? Perhaps a bogus, liberal sham? I'm drawing a blank on hearing anything about this. I'm sure Kerry and the rest would be screaming about this if there were something to it.

[stylin_geek]

2 billion versus the 87 billion of American taxpayer dollars? In the words of teenagers all over America "whatever!"

[San Jacinto]

What is Christian Aid??--Some kind of commie-front BS org, I exoect.

[Amelia]

Someone needs to find out the truth of it...otherwise this will add fuel to the "it's all about oil" conspiracy theorists' fire.

[p. henry]

As I wrote when this article was previously posted, audits are normally conducted once a year. The auditor for this project was therefore actully appointed earlier than required. This is a non-story.

[Timothy]

Ignore this group. It is a left-wing British organization that has nothing to do with Christianity. Seems they have never asked the UN to audit the Oil-For-Palaces program, but they want an audit of the CPA which spent lots of US taxpayer money in Iraq for the benefit of Iraqis. More leftist logic...

[xzins]

Old news.

Iraq has 25 million people. Oil is 96% of the Iraqi economy. Iraq produces 2 million bpd of oil when production is good. The price of oil over the last year has ranged from below 20 to about 40. At an average of $30 a barrel, that equals about 60 million dollars a day. With 365 days in a year, that equals about 21,900,000,000 dollars a year. If one assumes that there is some cost at producing oil, then one gets about 20 billion a year.

20 billion a year divided among 25 million people equals about 870 dollars a year per capita income.

Not very much.

These numbers are from memory, but they are fair approximations of what you'll find in the cia fact book.

[QQQQQ]

I heard about this -- it's just liberal propaganda to try to deflect from the UN's Iraq Oil for Food major fraud.

[QQQQQ]

Lookslike Chritian Aid is just another communist front, as the Worldwide Council of Churches or whatever their name is.

From the Chritian Aid Archives:

Christian Aid says big business must be regulated /20.08.02

Christian Aid this week launches a report showing the need to regulate multi-national companies. Internationally binding laws must be established to hold companies to human rights and environmental standards, it says.

http://www.christianaid.org.uk/news/media/pressrel/020820p.htm

[QQQQQ]

And another one -- let's have a one world government to regulate that "nasty big business".


Global regulation needed to tame big business /31.10.01

Christian Aid is urging delegations heading for next week's crucial WTO summit to consider the need for a new global authority to bring corporations under democratic control.

http://www.christianaid.org.uk/news/media/pressrel/011031p.htm