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To: jttmab who wrote (162308)	5/17/2005 8:35:40 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 281500

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. In fact, the Senate report found that US oil purchases accounted for 52% of the kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil - more than the rest of the world put together. "The United States was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated UN sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained from circumventing UN sanctions," the report said. "On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales. I guess nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth, even when it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats...cest la vie

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