James > The United Nations and France were dealing with Saddam for under the table cheap oil which enriched them handsomely while starving the Iraqi people
Things may not be what they seem. This article indicates that this apparent revelation may simply be another neocon lie designed to disparage those who were opposed to the Iraq war.
onlinejournal.com
>>>The list, ostensibly taken from Saddam Hussein's government's archives, is said to contain the names of 270 former government officials, legislators, political activists and journalists from more than 46 countries who are accused of personally profiting from oil money garnered by Saddam Hussein as part of the United Nations food-for-oil deal.
But the list was almost simultaneously translated and published on the web site of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a tax-exempt operation run from a Washington, DC, post office box. Not surprisingly, MEMRI also maintains offices in Jerusalem and London. MEMRI's "contributions" to the news media have, not surprisingly, been only cited in neocon media outlets such as the New York Sun, The Weekly Standard, New York Post, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times of London, World Net Daily, Washington Times, and UPI. In fact, very little is known about Al-Mada, and the fact that it could be a neocon-owned newspaper doing the propaganda work of its masters in Washington and Jerusalem cannot be entirely ruled out.<<< |
