Posted on 10/01/2002 3:49:17 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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NO BLOOD FOR OIL/DOING IT FOR GREED
This was all the rage when I was in college during the first Gulf War and it hasn't gotten any better with age. The basic argument goes like this: Bush and Cheney are oil guys. They want to get their grubby hands on Iraq's oil. Ergo, this is a war for oil. I guess it could be stated with more sophistication, but why go to all the trouble of putting a dress on a pig?
Kofi and the UN are compromised re. Iraq...business deals at OUR (and the Iraqi childrens') expense?
Kofi 'Annandersen' - Enron-style accounting at the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
You bet !!
Kofi and the UN are compromised re. Iraq...business deals at OUR (and the Iraqi childrens') expense?
Kofi 'Annandersen' - Enron-style accounting at the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program
You're welcomed. Thanks for the link. Amazing, grrrr!.....
The U.N. designates that Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq is to receive a share of the Oil-for-Food revenues, with some of that administered on the ground directly by the U.N. It is Saddam, however, who controls the buying of food and medicine. Though the U.N. has allocated $6.8 billion for northern Iraq since the start of the program, only $4.6 billion has been contracted for. Even less has been delivered. Under the category of medical supplies, for example, only 28% of the total allocated funds have been translated into goods received. While billions sit in U.N.-run accounts, sources in the north report shortages of such staples as surgical gloves.
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