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You are not going to convince a bush lover that there is any truth outside what they get from fox news. They don't get that the oil-for-food scandal was a tiny drop in the bucket compared to what US oil companies got from the secret illegal oil transfers approved by both Bush and Clinton to Jordan and Turkey. Hell most of them are too ignorant to even know about them or the fact that the involvement of US oil firms in ALL the scandals has been kept below the radar, at least in the US
I would sure like to be educated on these secret deals, have a source handy?
This is just bush... clinton was involved up to his nads too!
As in the present UN scandal, Saddam paid for his covert cluster bombs with oil. Chalmers would move the actual black stuff and broker its sale for the CIA and Cardoen, taking a cut in the process. Since 1999, Chalmers has been doing the same thing on behalf of Italtech, owned by another crony in the old Cardoen gun-running scheme. The Texas baron must be aghast to find himself in hot water for an activity that was once blessed at the highest levels. Perhaps he neglected to cross the requisite Bushist palms with sufficient silver -- or else, as with many a Bush minion, he's just been tossed overboard as chum for the sharks when he's no longer of any use.
But let's be fair. Helping Saddam kill people with chemical gas was not the only reason why Reagan and Bush I aided their favorite dictator. They had bigger fish to fry -- using the Constitution as kindling for the feast.
In 1986, George Bush I visited the Middle East with a secret message to be passed to Saddam via Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: "Drop more bombs on Iran's cities." How do we know this? From the sworn testimony of Howard Teicher, the National Security Council official who accompanied Bush and wrote the official "talking points" for the trip. Ostensibly, Bush urged this mass killing of civilians as a strategy to halt Iran's gains at the front. But as The New Yorker reported -- 13 years ago -- there was another layer to this covert plot.
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/141818/
Extra! May/June 1995
Iraqgate: Confession and Cover-Up
By Robert Parry
While the O.J. Simpson trial gobbled up endless TV hours and countless news pages, a concurrent criminal trial in Miami went almost unnoticed by the national media, even though it called into question the judgment of three U.S. presidents.
President Clinton's Justice Department had put on trial Teledyne Industries, a major military contractor, and two of its mid-level employees, on charges of selling cluster-bomb parts to a Chilean arms manufacturer, Carlos Cardoen. Cardoen, in turn, allegedly shipped finished bombs to Iraq.
Defense attorneys for the Teledyne employees argued that the CIA, as part of a secret operation that has come to be known as "Iraqgate," had authorized the shipments--a claim that the Reagan/Bush administration had long denied. Since taking office in 1993, the Clinton team has continued that GOP position, stating as recently as Jan. 16 that the administration "did not find evidence that U.S. agencies or officials illegally armed Iraq."
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/141818/
By Stephen Pizzo
November/December 1993 Issue
Bush administration officials spent their final months in office attempting to cover up a scandal--the so-called Iraq-gate affair--that could have landed them in jail. Strangely, their successors have tried desperately to complete the cover-up: in September, the Clinton Justice Department released a statement concluding that the Bush administration had done nothing improper.
Federal Judge Marvin H. Shoob, who for the past four years had presided over the criminal case, was incredulous. Such a conclusion, the judge said, was possible only "in Never-Never Land."
For those who have forgotten, the scandal centered on $5 billion in U.S.-government-guaranteed loans made to Iraq between 1985 and 1989 by the Atlanta branch of an Italian-government-owned bank, the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. The loans, backed by two executive-branch agencies--the Export-Import Bank and the Commodities Credit Corporation--were restricted by law to the purchase of U.S. agricultural
http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/1993/11/pizzo.html
President Bush declined to endorse Sen. Coleman's call for Kofi Annan's resignation.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec04/oil-for-food_12-3.html
Houston-based company Bayoil Inc., which participated in the U.N. program, was arrested in the Texas city Thursday and made an initial appearance in federal court. Chalmers and two associates are accused of paying millions to the regime of Saddam Hussein to secure oil deals, thereby diverting money from the U.N. humanitarian aid program.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/14/oilfood.indictment/
The beneficiary list (found in the archives of the Iraqi Oil Ministry and translated into English by the Middle East Media Research Institute) should be deeply embarrassing to many prominent people. In the United States, those listed include Iraqi American businessman Shaker Al-Khaffaji, who put up $400,000 to produce a film by ex-U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, which aimed to discredit weapons inspections in Iraq. Also, British Labor MP George Galloway, a strident foe of taking action against Saddam, is listed as a recipient or co-recipient of 19.5 million barrels.
Other recipients include: former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua (12 million barrels); Patrick Maugein, CEO of the oil company Soco International and financial backer of French President Jacques Chirac (25 million); former French Ambassador to the United Nations Jean-Bernard Merimee (11 million); Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri (10 million); and Syrian businessman Farras Mustafa Tlass, the son of longtime Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass (6 million). Leith Shbeilat, chairman of the anti-corruption committee of the Jordanian Parliament, received 15.5 million.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040321-101405-2593r.htm
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