From: "Mark Hessey" 


"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. "

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