I had always respected Butler for some time, and was more than surprised to see that he was relieved of his duties.
It seemed that he was being blamed for something at the time, and of course with the state of the old media, and no FR (!) to get behind the story, it was confusing to me, so now I'm pleased to see that he was in fact the decent man I thought all along.
Just can't wait to see what else we find out down the road about this percolating scandal.
"Just can't wait to see what else we find out down the road about this percolating scandal."
Piecing the big picture together would probably be very enlightening. One line of thought I have: if it was the Iraqis, Russians, and French putting the pressure on the Clinton administration to remove Butler and lift sanctions, was the removal of Butler rewarded with Iraqi, Russian, and French bribe money? Did the Oil for Food bribery involve a sort of Iraqi version of Chinagate with bribes from these nations being laundered to the DNC (possibly via McDermott) in exchange for the favor of removing Butler? On that note, one thing that strikes me as odd in the Oil for Food scandal is, why McDermott?--why not bribe somebody more influential? Or did it go to someone more influential with McDermott (and others) playing the middleman?