Posted on 10/10/2004 2:53:15 AM PDT by dandelion
If the name of a "Big Money" Political Party Donor with ties to Enron were discovered on the Saddam's Coalition of the Bribed, what do you think would happen to the Candidate of that party?
What if that Candidate of that Party was John Kerry?
Newsweek drops a bombshell on the Kerry Campaign: Texas Oil Baron and Big-Time Democrat Donor Oscar Wyatt has received perhaps as much a $22 million dollars in profits through oil allocations bought illicity from Saddam Hussein.
From MSNBC: United Nations: Oil-for-Food Fiasco?"
Law-enforcement sources say Americans who participated in alleged oil-for-food scams also may face further investigation. The CIA deleted from Duelfer's report names of Saddam's U.S. oil-for-food favorites. But an uncensored copy of the Duelfer report obtained by NEWSWEEK indicates Houston oil mogul Oscar Wyatt got oil allocations from Saddam which could have earned him and Coastal Corp.?a company he founded and ran until 2000?profits of more than $22 million. Wyatt and wife Lynn are major donors to political causes: since 1989 they have given nearly $700,000 in contributions, of which more than $500,000 went to Democrats. Wyatt told NEWSWEEK that his company did buy oil from Saddam but that he never did so personally, and that his company's dealings all complied with U.N. rules. ?Mark Hosenball and Steve Tuttle
Who is Oscar Wyatt? More than just a oil man, he's an outspoken critic of both Gulf Wars, and a big time Democratic Party Donor...
As per Houston's Clear Thinkers:
The 10-K also disclosed that one of El Paso's units has been subpoenaed by a grand jury from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to produce records regarding the United Nations' Oil for Food Program governing sales of Iraqi oil. The unit, El Paso CGP Company, was formerly Coastal Corp., which the company acquired in January 2001. The former chairman of Coastal -- Oscar Wyatt -- was an unabashed critic of Operation Desert Storm in the first Persian Gulf War and has been a vocal public critic of El Paso's management over the past several years.
Wyatt appears to have used his ill-gotten gains wisely - buying the leftovers of Enron.
According to New Age Business:
Enron said that the company and the Official Unsecured Creditor's Committee decided the CCE offer was best. Enron previously had said NuCoastal LLC, a company run by Texas billionaire and Coastal Corp. founder Oscar Wyatt Jr. had offered $2.2 billion in May.
So how does this affect Kerry? Well, perhaps we should couch it in terms even the Old Press can understand:
Big Oil, bribed by Saddam Hussein, helped pay for John Kerry's Campaign. Money used to buy Hussein's army's guns helped pay for John Kerry's campaign. Guns used to kill American Soldiers helped pay for John Kerry's campaign...
This may explain why John Kerry thinks the war in Iraq was a mistake. I believe the mistake may be his.
Thanks for a terrific article and a salivator. Also, how did you find that neato blog site... the Houston's Clear Thinkers. Did you see the writeup on Kerry's Management style? It's real sKerry.
Kerry's management style
My sense is that the upcoming Presidential election is going to be a much closer race than many Bush Administration supporters currently think, so this NY Sunday Times article on John Kerry's management style is timely in that it provides some insight into how a President Kerry would go about making decisions.
Mr. Kerry, who is a former prosecutor, is a four term senator without any meaningful management experience in terms of running a business, so his management style is primarily reflected on how he runs his campaign:
Mr. Kerry is a meticulous, deliberative decision maker, always demanding more information, calling around for advice, reading another document — acting, in short, as if he were still the Massachusetts prosecutor boning up for a case.
He stayed up late last Sunday night with aides at his home in Beacon Hill, rewriting — and rearguing — major passages of his latest Iraq speech, a ritual that aides say occurs even with routine remarks.
In interviews, associates repeatedly described Mr. Kerry as uncommonly bright, informed and curious.
But Mr. Kerry's curiousity brings with it an indecisiveness borne of a tendency to become deluged in what I refer to as "data dumps:"
But the downside to his deliberative executive style, they said, is a campaign that has often moved slowly against a swift opponent, and a candidate who has struggled to synthesize the information he sweeps up into a clear, concise case against Mr. Bush.
Even his aides concede that Mr. Kerry can be slow in taking action, bogged down in the very details he is so intent on collecting, as suggested by the fact that he never even used the Medicare information he sent his staff chasing.
His attention to detail can serve him well on big projects, as it did when he sent aides scurrying across the country to find long-lost fellow Vietnam veterans who could vouch for his war record. But sometimes, his aides say, it is a distraction, as it was in early 2003, when they say he spent four weeks mulling the design of his campaign logo, consulting associates about what font it should use and whether it should include an American flag. (It does.)
His habit of soliciting one more point of view prompted one close adviser to say he had learned to wait until the last minute before weighing in: Mr. Kerry, he said, is apt to be most influenced by the last person who has his ear.
And whereas President Bush rarely makes management changes in his top circle of advisors, Kerry often does:
Mr. Kerry has also, in this campaign and earlier ones, repeatedly upended his staff, edging longtime advisers aside or dismissing aides outright when things threatened to run off the tracks. As a result, while some stalwarts from Mr. Kerry's first campaign have stuck with him since 1972, the senior staff of his campaign includes few people who call themselves his friends or are personally loyal to him. And there is a hint of the Jimmy Carter micromanager management style in Kerry's approach:
Mr. Kerry's circle is as wide and changing as Mr. Bush's is constricted and consistent. He is always calling one more friend, and the campaign lineup has shifted so often that rumors of staff changes have become part of the daily gallows humor at Kerry headquarters on McPherson Square in downtown Washington. Instead of delegating authority to a single adviser, Mr. Kerry relies on different people for different advice. And, he made a point of saying in the interview, none of them have too much authority. "I am always in charge," he said.
And though he is constantly seeking out advice, Kerry does not always follow it:
For all his eagerness to seek advice, Mr. Kerry does not always take it.
After he delivered a 35-minute speech at the University of Pittsburgh last spring, Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania gently tried to reinforce a message Mr. Kerry's aides had been struggling to impart.
"I said I thought it was a little long for an outdoor speech," Mr. Rendell recalled. "My rule of thumb for an outdoor speech is 15 to 20 minutes."
That night at the Philadelphia Convention Center, Mr. Rendell prepped Mr. Kerry by saying the crowd was full of party veterans and urging him to keep his speech short. He talked for 32 minutes.
When Mr. Kerry arrived in Allentown early this month for a rally at the fairgrounds, Mr. Rendell did not even mention his 20-minute outdoor rule. "I've given up," Mr. Rendell said. "He listens sometimes, and he doesn't listen sometimes."
Mr. Kerry spoke for 38 minutes.
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Wyatt Announced in March 1997 that he would retire and begin lobbying in Washington to lift sanctions against Iraq and Libya.
Pretty much says it all about Wyatt. Following Saddam's agenda completely.
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Gosh and Enron-linked Texas oil baron getting 22Million in bribes. Why that is almost enough to forge a few National guard documents.
Well it sahould be damaging enough news Enron insiders are supporting Kerry let along taking Saddma bribes to then funnle money to kerry.
We all know what happens next. Newsweek digs until they find that this guy have $1 to Bush 10 years ago. Then the headlines: "Bush linked to Oil for Food Scandal". Or, they find out that Halliburton sold this guy some equipment and the headline reads: "Cheney linked to Oil for Food Scandal." I give it 2 days.
They are already trying to pin it on Bush and Hallaburton.......how PATHETIC!!!
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Kerry, Kennedy, Klinton, and Daschle -- who were their cut-outs, their secret middlemen and brokers in bringing home Saddam's friggin bloody oil money? That's what I'd like to know, and I'm as certain as rain next month that there were.
Did Oscar pay taxes on the $22M windfall (/sarc)?
Interestingly, the LAT contributed to the report in Dandelion's #21, the Houston Chronicle article.
"Wyatt appears to have used his ill-gotten gains wisely - buying the leftovers of Enron."
No wonder JFKerry is pushing the Kyoto Treaty, and why these lying liberals stopped bringing up Enron.... JFKerry running for president off Saddam's blood money.
No wonder JFKerry is against removal of Saddam!
And FWIW, didn't Wyatt give something like $100,000 to Toon's first inauguration committee?
| DNC-NON-FEDERAL INDIVIDUAL | |||
| 11/09/2000 | 100000.00 | 20036584308 | |
| RNC REPUBLICAN NATIONAL STATE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE | |||
| 11/07/2000 | 100000.00 | 20036566056 | |
| DSCC/NON-FED UNINCORP ASSOC | |||
| 08/13/2002 | 40000.00 | 22020641854 | |
| GREEN, RAYMOND EUGENE 'GENE' VIA GENE GREEN CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN |
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| 09/20/1998 | 1000.00 | 98033720076 | |
| KERREY, J ROBERT VIA KERREY FOR U S SENATE COMMITTEE |
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| 10/30/1999 | 1000.00 | 20020071458 | |
| DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE | |||
| 07/28/1997 | 10000.00 | 97032344560 | |
| DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE | |||
| 03/31/2004 | 5000.00 | 24991153675 | |
| DASCHLE, THOMAS ANDREW VIA A LOT OF PEOPLE SUPPORTING TOM DASCHLE INC |
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| 09/19/1997 | 1000.00 | 98020052612 | |
| KENNEDY, JOSEPH P II VIA CITIZENS FOR JOE KENNEDY 1988 |
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| 03/17/1997 | 500.00 | 97032290515 | |
| MCCAIN, JOHN S VIA MCCAIN FOR SENATE '98 |
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| 05/27/1997 | 1000.00 | 97020091812 | |
| 05/27/1997 | 1000.00 | 97020091812 | |
| DINGELL, JOHN D. VIA JOHN D. DINGELL FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE |
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| 07/31/2000 | 1000.00 | 20036123512 | |
| BENTSEN, KENNETH EDWARD JR VIA KEN BENTSEN FOR US SENATE COMMITTEE |
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| 10/09/2001 | 1000.00 | 22020300712 | |
| ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVISON IV VIA FRIENDS OF SENATOR ROCKEFELLER |
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| 06/22/2001 | 1000.00 | 21020111754 | |
| BREAUX, JOHN B VIA JOHN BREAUX COMMITTEE |
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| 04/27/1998 | 1000.00 | 98020142089 | |
| 04/27/1998 | 1000.00 | 98020142089 | |
| DINGELL, JOHN D. VIA JOHN D. DINGELL FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE |
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| 07/18/2002 | 1000.00 | 22992116848 | |
| 07/18/2002 | 1000.00 | 22992116849 | |
| BENTSEN, KENNETH EDWARD JR VIA KEN BENTSEN FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE |
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| 10/09/2001 | 1000.00 | 22990345751 | |
| MCCAIN, JOHN S VIA MCCAIN 2000 INC |
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| 01/31/2000 | 1000.00 | 20990048188 | |
| BELL, R CHRISTOPHER VIA CHRIS BELL U.S. CONGRESS COMMITTEE |
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| 03/09/2004 | 1000.00 | 24991066232 | |
The Baltimore Sun put its article on this (written by an LA Times writer) on the inside columns of page 9A. They name Wyatt in paragraph 3, but never mention his ties to Democrat Party.
They also name "Samir Vincent who headed a Virginia-based firm called Phoenix International." Have we heard of this organization before?
Don't have the exact amt handy, but that sounds right.
Is this the Republican's October surprise -- delivered more effectively by Newsweek?
Also wonder how much this donor gave for the Clintons library. I have read that Marc Rich was in on the "Oil for rotten Food" scam and his X supposedly gave loads for the Clintons library.
Looks like Clintons may well have prospered off Saddam's blood money....
What an interesting made-for-tv reality show this could make.
Well, considering Oil For Food was started during the Toon admin, I'm not surprised that their cronies would be making money off it. I'm just wondering why no-one seems to be curious about whether or not the Toons themselves profited from the program. Can anyone really see the Toons letting their pals get all the gravy?
I'm not getting too worked up over this revelation. There could be 20 Democrat donors on this list, but if there is even 1 Republican, it will neutralize the entire argument.
:-( ... I guess I've become somewhat pessimistic in my old age ... lol
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