I doubt we'll be hearing about the Oil for food program for a while

[Geek_Girl]

I'm not sure if this has been posted but it's a very interesting article.

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The Republican senators who have devoted their careers to mauling the United Nations are seldom accused of shyness. But they went strangely quiet on Thursday. Henry Hyde became Henry Jekyll. Norm Coleman's mustard turned to honey. Convinced that the UN is a conspiracy against the sovereignty of the United States, they had been ready to launch the attack which would have toppled the hated Kofi Annan and destroyed his organisation. A report by Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the US federal reserve, was meant to have proved that, as a result of corruption within the UN's oil-for-food programme, Saddam Hussein was able to sustain his regime by diverting oil revenues into his own hands. But Volcker came up with something else.
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Last week a British adviser to the Iraqi Governing Council told the BBC's File on Four programme that officials in the CPA were demanding bribes of up to $300,000 in return for awarding contracts. Iraqi money seized by US forces simply disappeared. Some $800m was handed out to US commanders without being counted or even weighed. A further $1.4bn was flown from Baghdad to the Kurdish regional government in the town of Irbil, and has not been seen since

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full Link

[Bethany Rockafella]

1. You only hear about it on Fox news anyway.

Also by repuke cspan callers.

[BurtWorm]

6. Are they still still talking about it?

If I were them I'd want all talk of "billions missing" and "Iraq" to go away, or it might come right back to tear a piece out of their asses.

[beam me up scottie]

2. I know, ain't it great?

I heard the report on bbc radio, they also said that key american politicians(guess which party) knew all about it.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

3. Excellent story on the $8.8 bn of vapor

[mattclearing]

4. How's that nice tall glass of shut the fuck up juice taste, Coleman? n/t

[cthrumatrix]

5. I'm sure Coleman will demand they get to the bottom of this...NOT