D: evidently you respect him more than Amnesty International. And because he is from Canada he is biased against America. Lots of idiots have jobs. Some have to feed on hatred to get and keep a job.

I am still waiting for the "reportedly" information about what the US supplied, when, where and how. Where is the report?

I see Hans Blix provided a list of the WMDs that did not exist in Iraq.

U.N. Oil for Food Scandal: The Marc Rich Connection
Written by Joe Mariani
Sunday, December 12, 2004

       "To say that just before Bill Clinton left office in January 2001 he exercised his privilege of granting presidential pardons is something of an understatement. With 176 criminals given pardons and commuted sentences in a single day, one might envision an "exercise" as frenetic as Richard Simmons on crack cocaine and Jolt Cola.

       Among the criminals Clinton pardoned was his own brother Roger, who had been convicted of drug trafficking. Susan McDougal, who was linked to the Clintons through the Whitewater scandal, also received a pardon. So did another Whitewater aide, Stephen Smith, though he said he didn't want one. Many of the pardoned criminals had personal connections to Clinton or had donated money to the Clintons' campaigns. Clinton pardoned Jack Williams, for instance, who had been convicted of making false statements to Federal agents. Williams was a lobbyist for Tyson Foods, the company in which Hillary Clinton invested $1,000 and miraculously made $100,000 in a single year. Another last-minute pardon recipient was Tansukhlal Bhatka, who had been convicted of tax evasion. Bhatka not only gave $5,000 to Hillary's Senate campaign, he hired her brother Hugh to lobby for his pardon. Hugh Rodham worked as a "consultant" to help other criminals gain pardons as well. For instance, Rodham received $245,000 in "consultant fees" from Allen and Vonna Jo Gregory, who had been convicted of bank fraud, but they had trouble describing his duties to Federal prosecutors when asked....

And, as it turns out, the Iraqi dictator could not have done it without the help of Marc Rich or the blatant disregard of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

       Shipping records show that just a month after receiving Clinton's pardon, Rich was acting as a middleman for some of Saddam Hussein's illegal oil deals. In their zeal to shift the blame for the scandal from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his son as well as influential figures in France, Germany, Russia, and China, the "mainstream" media seems to be insinuating that Americans were somehow really culpable. ABC news, for instance, presented the Marc Rich connection in a story entitled, "Americans' Role Eyed in U.N. Oil Scandal." Los Angeles Times columnist James Traub characterizes those investigating the OFF fraud as "a right-wing mob" of "vigilantes," while Annan is "the gentle and generally accommodating leader of the United Nations." Traub's real culprit is, of course, the U.S. government, which "had dozens of people monitoring the contracts.

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