Axis of Weasels Refused to Stop Oil For Food Scam
Bill Gertz of the Washington Times writes that France, Germany and Russia resisted efforts within the UN to stop the abuse of the Oil-for-Food program.
France, Russia, China and Syria were among the members of a special committee overseeing the oil-for-food program that opposed U.S. efforts to stop corruption that led to more than $10 billion being stolen by Saddam and his regime, Mr. Kennedy said.
Gertz is the author of “Treachery: How America’s Friends and Foes are Secretly Arming our Enemies” that is sitting on my bookshelf. I’d better finish Unfit for Command and get cracking on that one…
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We should stop calling it the “Oil For Food” scam and start calling it the “Oil for Genocide” scam. Or something more accurate like that.
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