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To: geode00 who wrote (31053)	10/20/2004 10:55:31 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Bush loves corruption. The better to steal by. From: Transparency International transparency.org “Corruption robs countries of their potential,” said Eigen. “As the Corruption Perceptions Index 2004 shows, oil-rich Angola, Azerbaijan, Chad, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Libya, Nigeria, Russia, Sudan, Venezuela and Yemen all have extremely low scores. In these countries, public contracting in the oil sector is plagued by revenues vanishing into the pockets of western oil executives, middlemen and local officials.” The bolded section, who are these western oil executives? jttmab