Saddam Pocketed $21.3 Billion
I posted comments yesterday about the Senate committee tasked with examining the Oil For Food program and it turns out we underestimated just how much Hussein was bilking.
$21.3 billion, twice the amount suspected.
Twenty one billion dollars goes a long way. It built Saddam's palaces and it paid for huge weapons stockpiles, it funded suicide bombings in Israel, and aided terrorists around the globe. It most likely is still floating around somewhere today and is being used quite possibly to assist the insurgency on the ground in Iraq.
What the $21.3 billion didn't do, was feed the Iraqi people, as it was intended under the UN's Oil For Food program.
And the latest revelation is that 'Benon V. Sevan, who was in charge of the United Nations program (Oil For Food), had benefited from special allocations of oil from Mr. Hussein,' as this piece from the NYT puts it.
Saddam was also actively attempting to influence foreign companies, relatives of governmental officials in China, Russia and France, even journalists in an effort to undermine international sanctions against Iraq.
Keep shining that light of truth, Senator Coleman.
$21.3 billion, twice the amount suspected.
Twenty one billion dollars goes a long way. It built Saddam's palaces and it paid for huge weapons stockpiles, it funded suicide bombings in Israel, and aided terrorists around the globe. It most likely is still floating around somewhere today and is being used quite possibly to assist the insurgency on the ground in Iraq.
What the $21.3 billion didn't do, was feed the Iraqi people, as it was intended under the UN's Oil For Food program.
And the latest revelation is that 'Benon V. Sevan, who was in charge of the United Nations program (Oil For Food), had benefited from special allocations of oil from Mr. Hussein,' as this piece from the NYT puts it.
Saddam was also actively attempting to influence foreign companies, relatives of governmental officials in China, Russia and France, even journalists in an effort to undermine international sanctions against Iraq.
Keep shining that light of truth, Senator Coleman.
posted by Kent at 11:01 AM
1 Comments:
We'll have to rely on bloggers to make an issue out of this, since the mainstream media won't do it in fear of offending their heros in Western Europe. Hopefully this will become such a big deal that the media will have to quit ignoring it.
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