Oil for Food My Foot

[align=left]Oil for Food My Foot
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[align=left]Kurt Nimmo | October 30 2005
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[align=left]Few of us give a whit about the so-called Oil for Food scandal. Itâ??s little more than a pet project for neocon Republicans, so-called â??conservativesâ?� in Washington, and like-minded folks at the United Nations and in the British Commons.
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[align=left]The so-called Oil for Food scandal obfuscates the real issueâ??the sanctions imposed against Iraq by a maidservant United Nations (and enforced by US and British warplanes) were responsible for killing more than a million people, half of them defenseless children. Denis Halliday, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Baghdad, resigned his post in 1997. â??I donâ??t want to administer a programme that satisfies the definition of genocide,â?� said Halliday. Hallidayâ??s successor, Hans von Sponeck, also resigned. â??How much longer can democratically elected governments hope to get away with justifying policies that punish the Iraqi people for something they did not do, through economic sanctions that target them in the hope that those who survive will overthrow the regime? Is international law only applicable to the losers? Does the UN security council only serve the powerful?â?� von Sponeck and Halliday wrote for the Guardian in November, 2001.
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[align=left]In fact, the rubber stamp UN Security Council does â??only serve the powerful,â?� as it demonstrates repeatedly. In regard to Iraq, the UN imposed a flurry of resolutionsâ??660, 661, 678, 686, 687, 688, 707, 715, 986, 1284, and finally 1441, this last demanding â??an accurate full, final, and complete disclosureâ?� of Iraqâ??s illusory weapons of mass destructionâ??resolutions we may rightfully consider stepping stones to Bushâ??s illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Bush used UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (an â??anti-terrorism measureâ?�) to claim Iraq provided â??shelter and support terrorist organizations that direct violence against Iran, Israel, and Western governmentsâ?¦. And al-Qaida terrorists escaped from Afghanistan are known to be in Iraq,â?� all of this not only patently false, but an engineered lie, as we now know, and some of us knew at the time. Bush and the neocons used 1441 as a carte blanche excuse to invade Iraq and kill over 100,000 innocent Iraqis. Of course, there was a whimper of protest from the United Nations when Bush invaded, but this was less than pathetic, and in fact was used by neocon cheerleaders to demonstrate how the UN is rife with America haters and Saddam appeasers. Naturally, the self-righteous squawk of the neocons, attacking the UN and â??Old Europe,â?� dominated headlines and sound-bites across the subservient corporate media. Obviously, the UNâ??s rubber stamp is not large enough.
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[align=left]Instead of concentrating on the criminal nature of the sanctions, we are subjected to neocon recrimination and the accusations of a former central banker, Paul Volker, who heads an â??independentâ?� commission tasked with investigating the Oil for Food scandal. â??More than 2,000 firms that participated in the UNâ??s oil-for-food programme were involved in bribes and kickbacks to Saddam Husseinâ??s regime,â?� reports the Guardian. Of course, this should not be surprisingâ??bribes and kickbacks are business as usual for many corporations. Even so, former central banker Volker didnâ??t come down too hard on these corporations. â??The identification of a particular company in the report does not necessarily mean that that company as opposed to an agent â?¦ made unauthorised [payments] or even knew about illicit payments,â?� said Volker. In other words, individuals will be ferreted out and made to pay for the sins of their employersâ??once again, business as usual.
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[align=left]Instead of taking down multinational corporations, select political opponents are to be skeweredâ??for instance British MP George Galloway. â??Mr Galloway was not in the Commons to hear himself compared to Lord Haw-Haw, the nickname given to the infamous Nazi propagandist and convicted traitor William Joyce who was hanged in 1946,â?� reports the UK Telegraph, a Brit neocon newspaper successfully sued by Galloway for fabricated lies against him. In fact, so eager are Gallowayâ??s enemies to get himâ??because his sharp-tongued criticisms of the Iraq invasion and occupation are spot onâ??Denis MacShane, the former Foreign Office minister, called for a joint committee of the Commons and the US Congress to grill Galloway and either send him into the political wilderness or off to the hoosegow.
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[align=left]Meanwhile, understanding well how the United Nations is manipulated by the United States, Russia has called for the â??Independent Inquiry Committeeâ?� (so independent it is controlled by a former central banker) to disclose its sources. Russia figures prominently in Volkerâ??s reportâ??in fact, the country tops the listâ??not surprising since Russia was against the US-UN sanctions, designed to kill as many Iraqis as possible. â??We were in touch several times with the commission and in a number of cases the documents they showed us were fake, in particular the signatures of Russian officials,â?� claimed Russiaâ??s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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[align=left]Siphoning off a billion or so dollars from the Oil for Food programâ??if indeed the accusations are true (and at least some of the accusations appear to be based on forged documents)â??pales in comparison to the crimes committed under the sanctions imposed against Iraq. Bush Senior, Clinton, and Bush Minor (and the Brit poodle Blair) are responsible for killing well over a million Iraqis. Of course, this is a minor issue for established sociopaths and war criminals, for instance Clintonâ??s Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who said: â??I think this is a very hard choice [killing 500,000 Iraqi children] but the priceâ??we think the price is worth it.â?� As Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting explains, this quoteâ??so instrumental in revealing the mindset of the cold-blooded sociopathic neolib eliteâ??appeared but once in the corporate press after nine eleven.
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[align=left]Meanwhile, the search criteria â??oil for foodâ?� used on the Google News Search site produces â??about 17,500? results.
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hahahaha,what a great sourse you got here.next.

heres a thought.

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20051...0352-8023r.htm

None, Nata, Zip of the Oil for food documents are forged. Your just pissed cause it implicates almost every single nation/person that was against the Iraq war. Russia was getting oil deals, British Politicians were getting paid off, the list just keeps going and going..and going..and going.

And about the dead people in Iraq, they were killed by other Muslims, not us.

thats WAY,WAY,WAY, over their heads tholiak. Just laugh and smile, and then pat them on the head and send them on their way.