From: Adam Flinton 

Mark Hessey wrote:

> "Gene McAloon"  wrote: Your
claim that Saddam lined
> the pockets of "our future adversaries in the
>
>>Security Council" is a charge never heard before and ludicrous
on the face
>
> of
>
>>it. During the containment years, not a cent went to any of our alleged
>>adversaries on the Security Council and couldn't under the UN resolutions
>
> that
>
>>ended the first war and established the sanctions.
>
>
> The UN's Oil for Fools Program
> http://www.techcentralstation.com/021604B.html
> "Oil is not just fuel for your car. It is a mighty political weapon. The
> latest revelations that the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used oil
> sales under the U.N. oil-for-food program to buy friends and influence
> policy around the world should turn on an alarm in Washington, New York,
> Paris and other capitals. "
>
>
ROFLMAO. So Iraq under the cosh of sanctions can generate enough cash to
scare the mighty US economy...an economy which can dig a couple of hundred
billion from under the bed without blinking.

Adam

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