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To: Sully- who wrote (6183)	12/17/2004 5:18:07 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Marc Rich and the Democrats Blogs for Bush You remember Marc Rich - that rich guy pardoned by President Clinton just before he left office in 2001 - well, he's back in the news again: <<< A federal grand-jury investigation of pardoned financier Marc Rich's role in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal has focused on whether he helped Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein reward the families of Palestinian bombers who carried out suicide attacks in Israel, sources said yesterday... ..."Can we legitimately speculate that some of the blood money Saddam paid to kill people in Israel may have originated or at least been touched by Marc Rich through the United Nations' dreadful oil-for-food program?" said a source close to the probe. "We know Saddam Hussein was getting a rake off from the U.N. program and Rich was in the middle of that." The grand-jury probe centers on questions of whether Mr. Rich, pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office in a pending $48 million income-tax-evasion case, brokered millions of dollars in deals between Saddam and other traders as part of the oil-for-food scandal, the sources said. >>> I'm flabbergasted - how did we get to a world where a US President would pardon such a complete piece of garbage as Marc Rich? Well, I know of course - because we live in a world where one of the two major American political parties has sold it soul for campaign donations. Rich was pardoned because his wife provided large sums to the DNC - and perhaps other "services" as well to President Clinton. There is no limit - Saddam would get a Democratic pardon if they had the ability and Saddam provided the right amount of campaign cash; there's no other interpretation possible on this - no honor, no decency is left to the Democratic Party. I know that an investigation was done in 2001 after the pardon came to light - but I really think we need to re-examine the case. People need to go to jail over this; we have to restore the concept that there really are certain things one shouldn't do, even if you can get a hefty political donation for doing them. Mark Noonan blogsforbush.com

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