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Politics : New FADG.

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (395)5/17/2007 12:24:36 PM
From: jttmabRead Replies (2) of 4152
 
Follow up... the trick in finding it is in remembering the exact percentage....it took me a bit to waken those particular neural pathways...

Here's one link ... it's easy to find more.

dir.salon.com

One extract:

"... In fact, the Senate report found that U.S. oil purchases accounted for 52 percent of the kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil -- more than those of the rest of the world put together.

"The United States was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated U.N. sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained from circumventing U.N. sanctions," the report says. "On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales. ... "

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