Nary a day goes by without some news story about poor US intelligence, or complaints from the UN, or France, or Germany -- or Democrats -- that the US unseated Saddam based on flawed intelligence or deliberate manipulation of known facts.
Or stories about US failures in Iraq, or US troops being 'bogged down' by terrorist activity or a lack of cooperation from local Iraqis, etc., etc.
When the news isn't running stories about the president being a crook, or innuendo pieces about Haliburton contracts (Dick Cheney's former company. Did you know?), there are stories about how homeland security is too restrictive, too lax, too intrusive, or too weak.
But NOBODY is talking about when our alleged allies sold us out to Saddam Hussein. Nobody is talking about the improprieties surrounding the UN's administration of Iraq's Oil-For-Food program that bought Saddam computers, new Mercedes', weapons components, but very little food.
Nobody is investigating the secret slush-funds Saddam used to pay off politicians like British MP George Galloway. (Galloway personally pulled in nearly $10 million while defending Saddam.)
Why is the fact Saddam's allies profited by pocketing the difference between the price of oil under the U.N.'s "Oil for Food" program and the price of oil on the open market not news?
Full Story @ The Omega Letter
My favorite line is;
"If allowing the UN to profit from a war it opposed would make it 'legitimate' then the reasons for conducting the war in the first place are also legitimate. The only thing that is different is how big a cut the UN gets of the pie, no?"
The article curiously does not include this :
NObody is investigating how reagan and bush funded muslim fundamentalists, how the bin laden's were members of Bush's companies, how Saddam would never have invaded kuwait in the first place if he had not felt so sure of his relationship with bush father ... and so on.
Oil is a dirty business. Any place you go. And even more so in faraway undemocratic countries ...
All I see is that whatever may happen you cwilli will never admit the USA being wrong in any form.
Posted by: DF at March 10, 2004 07:22 PM"All I see is that whatever may happen you cwilli will never admit the USA being wrong in any form"
Why should I when there are so many people like yourself who will never admit the USA to be right in any form. Besides I know my countries history very well. I know what we have done wrong and I know what we have done right. I also know that your country will never even be a pimple on our a$$.
Besides all this from a frenchman who refuses to believe that France was in Saddams back pocket.
Please.....
Posted by: cwilli at March 10, 2004 07:37 PM