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13 Sep 2005 09:05:56 AM |
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OT: "...Only when they do it!" |
Kofi Annan is head of the UN, knows nothing personally about
the "oil for food" scandal, but accepts responsibility.
Shrub and the US government's oil friends reap (rape?) 52%
of the illicit oil sales from Iraq, and George Galloway is
held responsible.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/18682087?version=1
Small wonder John Bolton thinks nobody would notice the top
floors of the UN blowing off.
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work
within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
- Claire Wolfe
"I disagree with the second part."
- Detective Somerset of "Se7en", paraphrased
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Bush 'turned blind eye to Iraq deals'
By Patrick Sawer, Evening Standard
17 May 2005
George Galloway arrived in Washington today to rebuff accusations
that he profited from Iraqi oil sales as a Senate investigation
found that the US government turned a blind eye to millions of
dollars of sanctions busting.
The Bush administration knew about the illegal oil sales and
kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime but did nothing about them,
according to a report from 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.
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.
Mr Galloway, the newlyelected MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, has
demanded an apology from the Senate subcommittee-which has named
him as a beneficiary of Iraqi oil allocations. Mr Galloway, who
overturned a 10,000 majority to win the seat for the anti-war
Respect party, arrived in Washington yesterday and immediately
demanded an apology from the subcommittee for what he called
their "schoolboy dossier" against him. He said: "It was full of
holes, full of falsehoods and full of value judgments that are
apparently only shared here in Washington.
"I have no expectation of justice. I come not as the accused but
as the accuser. I am going to show just how absurd this report
is."
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.
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