Monday, May 16, 2005

 

Boy, Is Norm Coleman Going To Regret He Ever Opened His Pie-Hole On This Issue

Seems that BushCo knew all about the money being stolen from the Oil-for-Food program -- and looked the other way:

A report released last night by Democratic staff on a Senate investigations committee presents documentary evidence that the Bush administration was made aware of illegal oil sales and kickbacks paid to the Saddam Hussein regime but did nothing to stop them. The scale of the shipments involved dwarfs those previously alleged by the Senate committee against UN staff and European politicians....In fact, the Senate report found that US oil purchases accounted for 52% of the kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil — more than the rest of the world put together.
I presume that Mr. Galloway has been informed of this in time for the scheduled ass-kicking, which was supposed to be Tuesday but has been moved to Wednesday is scheduled for Tuesday.


# posted by Phoenix Woman @ 5/16/2005 09:55:00 PM
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Another amusing tidbit:

Investigators found correspondence showing that Odin Marine Inc, the US company chartering the seven huge tankers which picked up the oil at Khor al-Amaya, repeatedly sought and received approval from US military and civilian officials that the ships would not be confiscated by US Navy vessels in the Maritime Interdiction Force (MIF) enforcing the embargo.

Odin was reassured by a state department official that the US "was aware of the shipments and has determined not to take action".

Julian Borger in The Guardian (where else?)
# posted by Blogger Charles : 5/17/2005 09:02:00 AM
 
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