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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (163101)	5/26/2005 12:39:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

If Iraqi oil was to be sold at market prices, then how could anyone trade the vouchers or the government impose a surcharge? Once again, that's why it's a scandal. The UN went along with the scheme. You'll have to do your own research the details, as I haven't studied them in depth. Claudia Rossett is the reporter to read. Also, if Saddam was the decision maker as to who gets the oil on the cheap, how come America got to profit from his oil? One would think that Saddam would have allocated all the vouchers to Russians, the French, and PLO, no? Why was this not so? Saddam's government was always ready and eager to bribe anybody who conceivably might be useful to them. Did you check out Hitch's account of the routine care packages they left for him when he was an obscure socialist journalist? We know that $400,000 (at least) of Saddam's cash made it to Scott Ritter. I don't think you can read more, offhand, into an American's company receiving dough than that somebody in Iraq thought they had a chance with them. You have to look farther to see if they got anywhere.