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Operation: Hammer Time
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by Lizard_King 05/01/2003, 7:24pm PDT |
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Moab wrote:
foogla wrote:
How high was/is the comission?
It's not difficult.
The NYT printed a great op-ed by Claudia Rosett on the topic recently...their editor must have been asleep or something. At any rate the original can be found here but unless you are a NYT subscriber or someone who is ok with paying their bullshit fees, I recommend you look at a full reprint which for some reason or other can be found at the Patriotic Union Of Kurdistan website. I highly recommend reading that first. No matter where you stand on the war, I can't imagine how a principled or even rational defense of the Oil-For-Food program could be made.
Even within the UN there is a great deal of criticism. It just doesn't get out much since the one thing all UN diplomats agree with is that they'd rather put up with France's bullshit than have the US actually make them do their jobs.
Here's a tabled breakdown of one of the more recent agreements, to give you an idea of part of the numbers we are talking about. Keep in mind the numbers have increased yearly since then. I believe the more recent ones would be based wholly on estimates since AFAIK the more recent deals have been kept under the table. Until the UN decides to make it transparent, they are at least as full of shit as the French, Russians, etc. As is anyone who criticizes George Bush for not keeping the US's nose perfectly clean without noting that no one in the history of Iraq has offered them as good a deal as they will likely be getting now, with the added bonus that US Marines don't feed people into plastic shredders or deliver sliced up women to their relatives. |
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Oops! by Guess what? 04/27/2003, 2:44am PDT 
Waitaminit... by Killjoy 04/27/2003, 11:03am PDT 
Thank you for proving him wrong. Still feeling vindicated, also - by Senor Barborito 04/27/2003, 7:36pm PDT 
I'm just amazed CNN published that NT by Mischief Killjoy 04/27/2003, 9:09pm PDT 
Interesting standard of proof... by Diotallevi 04/30/2003, 9:33pm PDT 
Confused by Moab 05/01/2003, 6:12am PDT 
Re: Confused by foogla 05/01/2003, 8:30am PDT 
Re: Confused by Lizard_King 05/01/2003, 8:37am PDT 
Re: Confused by foogla 05/01/2003, 10:43am PDT 
Here, I will google for you. by Moab 05/01/2003, 10:51am PDT 
A few more... by Lizard_King 05/01/2003, 7:24pm PDT 
btw, I don't know where the 8b number I gave came from... by Lizard_King 05/01/2003, 7:25pm PDT 
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