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2004-10-08 Iraq-Jordan

SUCK-UPS FOR SADDAM'S OIL (The whole list!)

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-08 12:02:51 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There's an "Iraqi French Friendship Society" !

You cannot make this stuff up.

Posted by JAB 2004-10-08 12:53:00 AM|| 2004-10-08 12:53:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 this list is a joke until ALL names are published, including american and british

Posted by rofl 2004-10-08 2:03:58 AM|| 2004-10-08 2:03:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Rofl, if you have any American or British names to add, pass them along. I'll be happy to append them to the list.

Posted by Steve White 2004-10-08 2:47:34 AM|| 2004-10-08 2:47:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 There's an "Iraqi French Friendship Society" !

That would be their Foreign Ministry.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-10-08 8:27:50 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-10-08 8:27:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I read Marc Rich (whom Clinton, on this last day in office, pardoned for tax evasion) through his Swiss company received Saddams largess, for as much as $3mil. I wondered if he paid taxes on it?

Posted by ed 2004-10-08 10:47:40 AM|| 2004-10-08 10:47:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm curious how the parties got together. Did the Iraqi's bring it up, offer bribes, that sort of thing. Or did the various outsiders hint and suggest to the Iraqi's.

If the first case is true, did the Iraqi's ever try to bribe an American or British official and if so why haven't they come forward. If not, its a sad state for Russia, China and France that they are known to be so crooked.

Posted by RJ Schwarz 2004-10-08 2:45:09 PM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-10-08 2:45:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The report notes that Russia, France and China â three of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, along with the United States and Britain â had the highest percentage of secret oil-voucher recipients.

Smelling salts for the Kerry Doctrine of foreign policy. Thanks for the post, Mark.

Posted by jules 187 2004-10-08 2:57:09 PM|| 2004-10-08 2:57:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I hate to cold some enthousiasms but at least for the French, the list is certainly fake. Charles Pasqua is the arch-villain of French politics because a) he is right wing (a capital sin here) and b) he has ever been a kind of cloak and dagger persona: a 1940 Resistant (a _rare_ thing) but also the creator of the SAC (a kind of pricate secrete service who fought OAS terrorism), controls a network of people for undercover actions and has done a lot of illegal things in order to fund Chirac's party. So when you look for a French politician in order to accuse him of contacts with Saddam, Pasqua is a natural choice.
Problem is that it doesn't match. Since the 1995 elections where he stood behind Chirac's rival Balladur he and Chirac have opoosed in most things and his influence on him is nil. He is also ahted by the mainstream media for being politically incorrect and anti-europeist. So unless Saddam's informers were completely incompetent Pasqua is the last person they would have contacted.

Now I strongly believe there were French politicians in Saddam's pay and Chirac geting his share. Just the New York Post has been fed bad information.

Posted by JFM 2004-10-08 3:09:36 PM|| 2004-10-08 3:09:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 In terms of the 'whole list' I jumped the gun, but the other corporate and 'diplomatic' names should be forthcoming. (including American and British)

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-08 5:48:05 PM|| 2004-10-08 5:48:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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