UK Guardian: US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals'

DBoon

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Tue May-17-05 09:56 AM
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UK Guardian: US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals'

Likely not LBN (this MUST have been posted already):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1485649,00.html

The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation.
A report released last night by Democratic staff on a Senate investigations committee presents documentary evidence that the Bush administration was made aware of illegal oil sales and kickbacks paid to the Saddam Hussein regime but did nothing to stop them.

The scale of the shipments involved dwarfs those previously alleged by the Senate committee against UN staff and European politicians like the British MP, George Galloway, and the former French minister, Charles Pasqua.

Now, we will EVER see this in the US media?

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bullimiami

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Tue May-17-05 09:58 AM
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1. bushco are crooks of previously unknown monumental scope.

i wonder if they will ever pay for their crimes.
i am so disgusted with this country.

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MadHound

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Tue May-17-05 10:00 AM
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2. Of course not, especially after the latest demonstration we had

On what happens to a MSM outlet when it dares to report the truth.

Nope, Rove, Cheney and the rest of the administration thugs want to take the oil for food scandal and use it as a club to beat up the countries that didn't go along with the glorious US invasion. Thus we see allegations about France, Russia, the UN, etc. But we won't hear a peep about the US shanannigans, even though we were in the shit up to our neck.

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Jo March

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Tue May-17-05 10:00 AM
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3. I am shocked and awed

Simply shocked. Shocked, I say, shocked!!

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dweller

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Tue May-17-05 10:01 AM
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4. Houston Chronicle story

with alternate headline here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1478823

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madrchsod

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Tue May-17-05 10:03 AM
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5. of course we did...

uncle prick lobbied to lift sanctions during his disaster at halliburton. california refineries were the destination for iraqi oil because of it`s purity..
no we will not hear about it on any broadcast or print media...

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Karenina

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Tue May-17-05 10:15 AM
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6. It's ALL Kofi Annan's fault

HE did it! Oh you "blame-America-first types!!! ;-)

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