I am glad to see a lively debate going on here.

No doubt George W Bush will get his ass kicked all over the place and he will loose the election. Kerry supporters need not waste their time voting.

Who are the 270 recipients of oil vouchers issued by Saddam? They could be sold to oil traders for cash in the lobby of same hotel where they were issued:

Canada:
Arthur Millholland, president and CEO of the Calgary-based Oilexco company, received 1 million barrels of oil.

United States:
Samir Vincent received 10.5 million barrels. In 2000, Vincent, an Iraqi-born American citizen who has lived in the U.S. since 1958, organized a delegation of Iraqi religious leaders to visit the
U.S. and meet with former president Jimmy Carter.
Shaker Al-Khafaji,the pro-Saddam chairman of the 17th conference of Iraqi expatriates, received 1 million barrels.

Great Britain:
George Galloway received 1 million barrels.
Fawwaz Zreiqat received 1 million barrels. Zreiqat also appears in the Jordanian section as having received 6 million barrels.
The Mujahideen Khalq in Britain received 1 million barrels. The Mujahideen Khalq is an organization which opposes the Iranian regime. The U.S. government has classified it as a terrorist group.

France:
The French-Arab Friendship Association received 15.1 million barrels.
Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua received 12 million barrels. Mr. Pasqua denied receiving anything from Saddam.
Patrick Maugein of the Trafigura company received 25 million barrels.
Michel Grimard, founder of the French-Iraqi Export Club, received 17.1 million barrels.

Switzerland:
Glenco Re, the largest commodity trader in Switzerland, received 12 million barrels.
Taurus, which has been associated with Iraq for 20 years and was the first company to renew its business with Iraq after the fall of Saddam, received 1 million barrels.
Petrogas, which is listed under three sub-companies – Petrogas Services, Petrogas Distribution, and Petrogas Resources - and is associated with the Russian company Rosneftegazetroy, received 1 million barrels.
Alcon, listed in Lichtenstein and associated with larger oil companies, received 1 million barrels.
Finar Holdings, which is listed in Lugano, Switzerland, and is under liquidation, received 1 million barrels.

Italy:
The Italian Petrol Union received 1 million barrels.
West Petrol, an Italian company that trades crude oil and oil products, received 1 million barrels.
Roberto Formigoni, possibly the president of Lombardia, received 1 million barrels.
Salvatore Nicotra, a former NATO pilot who became an oil merchant, received 1 million barrels.

Spain:
Basem Qaqish, a member of the Spanish Committee for the Defense of the Arab Cause, received 1 million barrels.
Ali Ballout, a pro-Saddam Lebanese journalist, received 1 million barrels.
Javier Robert received 1 million barrels.

Yugoslavia:
Four Yugoslav political parties received vouchers:
the Yugoslav Left party received 9.5 million barrels.
The Socialist Party received 1 million barrels.
The Italian Party received 1 million barrels.
Another party, whose name in exact transliteration is "kokstuntsha" – possibly Kostunica's party – received 1 million barrels.

Other political parties:
The Romanian Labor Party received 5.5 million barrels.
The Party of the Hungarian Interest received 4.7 million barrels.
The Bulgarian Socialist Party received 1 2 million barrels.
The Slovakian Communist Party received 1 million barrels.

Austria:
The Arab-Austrian Society received 1 million barrels.

Brazil:
The 8th of October Movement, a Brazilian Communist group, received 4.5 million barrels.
Fuwad Sirhan received 10 million barrels.

Egypt:
Khaled Gamal Abd Al-Nasser, son of the late Egyptian president, received 16.6 million barrels.
'Imad Al-Galda, a businessman and a member of the Egyptian parliament from President Mubarak's
National Democratic Party, received 14 million barrels.
Abd Al-Azim Mannaf, [5] editor of the Sout Al-Arab newspaper, received 6 million barrels.
Muhammad Hilmi, editor of the Egyptian paper Sahwat Misr, [6] received an undisclosed number of barrels.
The United Arab Company received 6 million barrels.
The Nile and Euphrates Company received 3 million barrels. The Al-Multaqa Foundation for
Press and Publication received 1 million barrels. [7]

Libya:
Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem received 1 million barrels.

Sub-Saharan Africa:
Chad's foreign minister received 1 million barrels. Chad was mentioned at one time as a possible source of uranium for Iraq.
Four South Africans are listed:
Tokyo Saxville received 4 million barrels.
Montega received 4 million barrels. Both are associated with the African National Party .

Palestinians:
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) received 4 million barrels.
The PLO Political Bureau received 5 million barrels.
Abu Al-Abbas terrorist residing in Baghdadreceived 11.5 million barrels.
Abdallah Al-Horani received 8 million barrels.
The PFLP received 5 million barrels.
Wafa Tawfiq Al-Sayegh received 4 million barrels.

Oman:
The Al-Shanfari group received 5 million barrels.

Syria:
Farras Mustafa Tlass, the son of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, received 6 million barrels.
'Audh Amourah received18 million barrels.
Ghassan Zakariya received 6 million barrels.
Anwar Al-Aqqad received 2 million barrels.
Hamida Na'Na', the owner of the Al-Wafaq Al-Arabi periodical, received 1 million barrels.

Lebanon:
The son of Lebanese President Emil Lahoud received 4.5 million barrels.
Former MP Najjah Wakim received 3 million barrels.
Nasserist Party head Osama M'arouf received 3 million barrels.
National Arabic Club Chairman Faisal Darnika received 3 million barrels.

Jordan:
Former Islamist MP and head of the Engineers Union Leith Shbeilat [9] received 15.5 million barrels.
Former MP and Jordanian Writers Union head Fakhri Qi'war received 6 million barrels.
Former Jordanian chief of staff Mashhour Haditha received 1 million barrels.
Former MP Toujan Al-Faisal received 3 million barrels.
The Jordanian Ministry of Energy received 5 million barrels.
Muhammad Saleh Al-Horani, the Amman Stock Exchange head and former Minister of Supplies, received 4 million barrels.
Lawyer Wamidth Hussein Al-Majali received 6 million barrels.

Qatar:
Qatari Horseracing Association Chairman Hamad bin Ali Aal Thani received 14 million barrels.
Gulf Petroleum received 2 million barrels.
The Indian Congress Party received 1 million barrels.

Indonesia:
Indonesian President Megawati received 1 million barrels as "the daughter of President Sukarno," and 1 million barrels as Megawati.

Myanmar: Myanmar's Forestry Minister received 1 million barrels.

Ukraine:
The Social Democratic Party received 1 million barrels.
The Communist Party received 6 million barrels.
The Socialist Party received 1 million barrels.
The FTD oil company received 1 million barrels, as did other Ukrainian companies.

Belarus:
The Liberal Party received 1 million barrels.
The Communist Party received 1 ton [sic] of oil.
The director of the Belarussian president's office received 1 million barrels.

Russia:
The Russian state itself received 1,366,000,000 barrels.
The list also included the following:
Companies belonging to the Liberal Democratic Party received 79.8 million barrels - t he list notes the
name of party president Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
The Russian Communist Party received 1 million barrels.
The Lukoil company received 63 million barrels.
The Russneft company received 35.5 million barrels.
Vladimir Putin's Peace and Unity Party received 34 million barrels - the list notes the name of party chairwoman Saji Umalatova.
The Gazprom company received 26 million barrels.
The Soyuzneftgaz company received 25.5 million barrels - the list notes the name Shafrannik.
The Moscow Oil Company received 25.1 million barrels.
The Onako company received 22.2 million barrels.
The Sidanco company received 21.2 million barrels.
The Russian Association for Solidarity with Iraq received 12.5 million barrels.
The Ural Invest company received 8.5 million barrels.
Russneft Gazexport received 12.5 million barrels.
The Transneft company received 9 million barrels.
The Sibneft company received 8.1 million barrels.
The Stroyneftgaz company received 6 million barrels.
The Russian Committee for Solidarity with the People of Iraq received 6.5 million barrels - the list notes the name of committee chairman Rudasev.
The Russian Orthodox Church received 5 million barrels.
The Moscow Science Academy received 3.5 million barrels.
The Chechnya Administration received 2 million barrels.
The National Democratic Party received 2 million barrels.
The Nordwest group received 2 million barrels.
The Yukos company received 2 million barrels.
One Russian company which phonetically reads as Zarabsneft received 174.5 million barrels.
Vouchers were also granted to the Russian foreign ministry, one under the name of Al-Fayko for 1 million barrels, and one to Yetumin for 30.1 million barrels.
The Mashinoimport Company received 1 million barrels.
The Slavneft Company received 1 million barrels.
The Caspian Invest Company (Kalika) received 1 million barrels.
The Tatneft Tatarstan company received 1 million barrels.
The Surgutneft company received 1 million barrels.
Siberia's oil and gas company received 1 million barrels.
The son of the former Russian Ambassador to Iraq received 19.7 million barrels.
Nikolay Ryjkov, a former prime minister of the USSR, received 13 million barrels.
The Russian President's office director received 5 million barrels.

Oil vouchers were also distributed to companies and individuals from the Sudan, Yemen, Cyprus, Turkey,
Vietnam, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan, the UAE, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Panama, Thailand, Chad,
China, Nigeria, Kenya, Ireland, Bahrain, and the Philippines.
Two Saudi companies were also listed.




Old Guy