U.N. names oil companies in Iraq kickback scheme

Reuters ^ | Thu Oct 27, 2005

[F14 Pilot]

Now the answer to the question of why French and Russian govts opposed the war against Saddam is clear!

They, again, didnt care about well being of Iraqis and they just wanted to suck the oil of the nation of Iraq. That is for sure.

[ncountylee]

Russia and France were the countries with the most companies involved in the oil-for-food program.

Big surprise?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Glencore is a Marc Rich company.

[NoClones]

so the pure-as-the-windblown-snow UN is pointing fingers at someone else?

[Ben Hecks]

Jordanian businessman Talal Hussein Abu-Reyaleh, a Glencore agent, paid the surcharges, and Glencore paid him, the report said.

Isn't Glencore Marc Rich's operation?

[Ben Hecks]

LOL! You answered my question!

[Prime Choice]

Glencore is a Marc Rich company.

Well, well, well...looks like he's invested in the same retirement plan as Herr Annan.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Did Iraqi OFF kickbacks make their way to Hillary's NY Senate campaign via Deknees?

[Steely Tom]

Could any of this money have ended up in Clinton's ATM account? (I remember a story, just after he left office, where some unnamed person close to him was expressing amazment at Clinton's poor money management skills, saying that Clinton had more than $1M in an ATM account). I mean, what with Marc Rich's involvement and all.

I expect we'll find out about it, someday.

[Uncle Miltie]

Contributions to Political Committees

CHALMERS, DAVID
HOUSTON, TX 77019
BAY OIL USA

DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
06/22/2000 1000.00 20020231203

CHALMERS, DAVID B.
AUSTIN, TX 78745

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTIONS
10/03/2002 300.00 22992443293

Total Contributions: 1300.00

[timydnuc]

"Glencore is a Marc Rich company"

BJ Billy and the Succubus herself are in there somewhere, I'll bet my new Chevy truck against a Geo Metro on it, a used Geo Metro at that!

"Oil for Food" should be renamed "Cash for a Despot". Where's the World frickin' Court on this one? This makes me want to vomit! Get the G-damned UN out of these here United States and this beautiful nation out of the UN. I have had it!

[Uncle Miltie]

"One of the most prolific purchasers of the oil was Swiss-based Glencore, run by one-time fugitive American financier Marc Rich, which the report alleges paid over $3.2 million in kickbacks to the Iraqi government. Rich, formerly wanted for tax evasion, was pardoned by President Clinton in his last days in office."

http://acepilots.com/unscam/archives/001353.html

[BlessedByLiberty]

"Could any of this money have ended up in Clinton's ATM account?"

Or an Arkansas library.

[timydnuc]

One more thing. We should take all the money in the "Oil for Food" fiasco and distribute it to the 2000 families that gave their brave sons to free the Iraqis, every last penny of it.

God bless the United States of America, her brave troops and her brave President. Thank you God for making me an American and not one of those feces eating weasels.

[Uncle Miltie]

"Investigators told the Post they have received information that Rich and Ben Pollner, a New York-based oil trader who heads Taurus Oil, put together deals between Saddam and his international supporters as part of the Oil-for-Food scam."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/12/13/101107.shtml

[Las Vegas Dave]

"Could any of this money have ended up in Clinton's ATM account?"

The correct question would be, "How much money ended up with the Klintoon/Dems?"

[Uncle Miltie]

Alice and Ben Pollner came to Missoula in October for the second Pollner Lecture, part of a fellowship they created in honor of their son, T. Anthony Pollner, a 1999 J-school graduate who died in 2000. The fellowship brings a distinguished journalist to campus during the fall semester.

POLLNER, ALICE

NEW YORK, NY 10128

KERRY, JOHN F
VIA JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC
05/20/2004
$2000.00
24981235729

John Kerry seems to have taken Saddam / Pollner's money.

[Chode]

outstanding...

[Ben Hecks]

Did Iraqi OFF kickbacks make their way to Hillary's NY Senate campaign via Deknees?

Good question. Here's what Newsmax said:

" When it became known in January 2001 that the ex-president had pardoned Rich, probers immediately zeroed in on his ex-wife Denise, who had donated more than $1 million to Democratic campaigns - including Hillary Clinton's first Senate race - during the same period that Rich was doing business with Saddam.

Rich's ex also ponied up $450,000 for Clinton's library and donated the max to the Clintons' defense fund."

[Khurkris]

bump for reference