Posted on 12/19/2006 4:38:15 PM PST by Fred Nerks
Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker used an Israeli businessman to evade American sanctions in Iraq while collecting a debt from Saddam Hussein.
According to a report by WorldNet Daily reporter Aaron Klein, Baker hired Nir Gouaz, president of Caesar Global Securities in Israel, to collect a debt from the Hussein regime in 1998.
Baker is a senior partner at the Houston-based law firm, Baker Botts, which made some $30 million in fees from the deal which the Israeli businessman mediated.
Gouaz said the Iraqi regime owed some $1.65 billion to the Korean Hyundai Engineering firm for a series of construction projects on which it defaulted in the wake of the Gulf War.
U.S. legal sanctions on Iraq did not apply to Israelis, hence Baker’s request that Gouaz mediate the deal. The Bank of Jordan was also involved in the transactions.
Gouaz came forward with the information early this week in response to the release of the Baker-Hamilton report in the U.S. which recommended that Israel withdraw from Judea, Samaria, parts of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
“As a citizen of Israel I cannot just sit by and watch the hypocrisy being spewed by Baker,” Gouaz said. “If Baker was stil a private citizen I could keep his business dealings private, but now he is involved in diplomacy that sells out Israel. People need to understand he is acting out of economic considerations.”
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53421
Oh Jiiiiiimmy! You got some 'splainin' to do!
Baker's just a global capitalist, can a leopard change its spots? ;)
Hopefully, this will get air time on talk radio so the American people can hear the truth. Exposure is all arrogant politicians like Baker fear. And, we do have a ton of arrogant politicians who think we're the common folk and that we're stupid.
I'm not sure if collecting a debt from Iraq for Korea was really doing business with Iraq. What I do know is that as the CEO of an oil brokerage we rejected any oil offer originating in Iraq.
Oh could we have fun with that company name!!
Whoa.... Stateside liberal newsrooms must be doing a bit of handwringing right now on how exactly to spin this story while keeping the ISG report looking like a serious document..
who'd thunk a Texan could sink so low....
"...liberal newsrooms must be doing a bit of handwringing right now on how exactly to spin this story..."
Or how to bury it!
From the article: 'U.S. legal sanctions on Iraq did not apply to Israelis, hence Baker’s request that Gouaz mediate the deal...'
He's a Lawyer and finding loopholes is what lawyers do, right? $ 30 million is a heck of a fee.
Figures. That's got to be just the tip of the iceberg on that old DC boy.
Be interesting to see if this ever goes to trial.
Isn't Baker the one who said "F___ the Joooos. They don't vote for us anyway"?
One and the same, yes.
Verbatim.
And then there was Secretary of State James Baker's infamous "fuck the Jews" remark. In a private conversation with a colleague about Israel, Baker reportedly uttered the vulgarity, noting that Jews "didn't vote for us anyway."
http://www.slate.com/id/2064424/
Baker: "What cookie jar? I don't see any cookie jar!!"
FReeper: "It's the one you have your hand in".
Another limousine liberal gets caught . . . . . . and the treasonous MSM will give him a pass.
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