Posted on 05/12/2005 7:27:01 PM PDT by talosiv
When Senator Norm Coleman (R., Minn.) last year compared the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal to “an onion,” he had just one thing wrong: The more you peel, the bigger it gets.
The latest insights into this cosmos of U.N.-fostered corruption come by way of a bipartisan report just released by the Senate Permanent Subcomittee on Investigations, or PSI, led by Coleman. In detail, with supporting documentation, the report shows how Saddam Hussein, via Oil-for-Food, gave rights to buy millions of barrels of underpriced Iraqi oil to two politicians who supported his regime: former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and British Member of Parliament George Galloway.
In a press release, Coleman notes: “This report exposes how Saddam turned the Oil for Food program on its head and used the program to reward his political allies like Pasqua and Galloway.”
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This has produced in the past 24 hours a spirited exchange, in which Coleman issued a statement that “at no time” did Galloway contact his committee “by any means, including but not limited to telephone, fax, email, letter, Morse Code or carrier pigeon.” Coleman went on to invite Galloway to testify at a PSI hearing next Tuesday that will enlarge upon this week's report, under the title “Oil for Influence: How Saddam Used Oil to Reward Politicians and Terrorist Entities Under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program.” Coleman promised that “There will be a witness chair and microphone available for Mr. Galloway’s use.” Galloway replied by telling the Financial Times that “assuming we get the visas,” he’ll be there “to give them both barrels — verbal guns, of course, not oil.”
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-R
In a more just world, this scandal would be the size of ten Watergates and Iran-Contras put together.
But it doesn't fit the ideological template of the mainstream media, so it gets absolutely no hearing.
I really want to see how this latest Coleman report gets played by the MSM.
More importantly it remains a big reason the toppling of Saddam was needed. And it vindicates Bush. And it makes the Rats look even more stupid in their support of the UN. That's why you will only grudgingly hear more of the story from the lame MSM.
In a more just world, this scandal would be the size of ten Watergates and Iran-Contras put together. But it doesn't fit the ideological template of the mainstream media, so it gets absolutely no hearing.
A brave lady. Because of her we know that the conditions forcing action in Iraq were caused by the corruption in the u.n.
Thank you Claudia.
Bump
This is what the Dems are defending.
Here's how: John Bolton is a meanie. I mean really a big meanie. What....oil for food scandal? Never heard of it.
But did you know John Bolton is a meanie?
The really interesting bit IMHO is about two-thirds of the way down and deals with Wyatt and the Toons.
Thanks- copied & saved.
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