Posted on 05/12/2005 11:30:31 AM PDT by JZelle
A longtime ally of French President Jacques Chirac and a leading British critic of the Iraq war received huge contracts to resell Iraqi oil from Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program, Senate investigators have found. In findings being released today, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs permanent subcommittee on investigations charges that former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and British Member of Parliament George Galloway each received the right to market more than 10 million barrels of cut-rate oil from dictator Saddam's Oil Ministry between 1999 and 2003.
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Related thread from this morning: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1401682/posts
I think Rush referred to the "Coalition of the Bribed" today.
And this surprises who exactly?
Levin just can't refrain from blaming the U.S.
"The United States and other Security Council Members should have"...
It's gotten to a Levin routine.
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