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To: i-node who wrote (207319)	10/18/2004 3:05:38 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575424

re: France refused to support the United States because they were trying to preserve 2 billion in kickbacks and Kerry's ticket that he would not act unless Shirack would ok it 1st.....

To: i-node who wrote (207319)	10/18/2004 3:11:34 PM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 1575424

usatoday.com US Troops support Bush washingtonpost.com Veterans support Bush as well

To: i-node who wrote (207319)	10/18/2004 4:22:12 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575424

Your memory is faulty. France and the rest of the security council supported Bush's call to get tough with Iraq and bring back inspections and disarmament. What they didn't go for was a unilateral attack with no plans and no reason. It turns out they gave Bush good advice, but he was too stupid to take it. TP

To: i-node who wrote (207319)	10/18/2004 6:13:37 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575424

>> None of this is news.......... You're nuts. It is HUGE news. The liberal media hasn't picked it up yet, but it is going to happen sooner or later. Really?! The United Nations Oil for Food Fraud: How the U.S. Should Respond by Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. Testimony April 21, 2004 \| Statement of Nile Gardiner, Ph.D.,[1]Fellow in Anglo-American Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation[2], to the House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, on April 21, 2004 There is mounting evidence that the United Nations Oil for Food program, originally conceived as a means of providing humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people, was subverted by Saddam Hussein’s regime and manipulated to help prop up the Iraqi dictator. Saddam’s dictatorship was able to siphon off an estimated ten billion dollars from the Oil for Food program through oil smuggling and systematic thievery, by demanding illegal payments from companies buying Iraqi oil and through kickbacks from those selling goods to Iraq, all under the noses of UN bureaucrats. The UN staff administering the program are accused of gross incompetence, mismanagement, and possible complicity in allowing the Iraqi regime to perpetrate the biggest scandal in UN history. The Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) has already appointed its own investigation into the United Nations’ handling of Oil for Food, headed by Claude Hankes-Drielsma, a British businessman and political adviser. Hankes-Drielsma has commissioned the private accounting firm KPMG International to sift through mountains of evidence and write a report summarizing its findings. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), has instructed all offices of the occupying authority to cooperate with the probe and preserve all paperwork related to the Oil for Food program. continued............... heritage.org