House leaders say Saddam used oil for food money for TERROR. And you guys thought there wasn't a connection between Saddam Hussein and terrorism. The sanctions against Saddam Hussein were not only NOT working, folks. But the illicit deals he was making through the UN....who was thwarting their own so-called sanctions and from other countries who held anti-Iraq war positions, went directly to fund terrorism.....and killed a lot of people. Kofi Anan needs to be brought up on charges, IMO.


"WASHINGTON — Money from the United Nations Oil-for-Food program helped pay the families of Palestinian homicide bombers, the House Committee on International Relations is expected to reveal Wednesday during a hearing on corruption in the Iraqi relief program.

Investigators working for Illinois Republican Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the panel, are expected to say they have traced funds from former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's kickback scheme through a Jordanian bank and into the hands of families of bombers who attacked Israeli citizens."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138759,00.html

Oooops!

__________________
"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

Anyone else want to bet that liberals are going to try to refute/defend all this?

Yep. It's amazing, isn't it Hans? Do you think the libs would be on the side of the UN here IF a Democrat were president right now? I mean....I don't know what that would have to do at all with their views. It shouldn't have a thing to do with it.....other than they want to make sure they don't agree with tbis administration or the Republicans on ANYTHING. But this is about right and wrong....and funding terrorism. Everybody......Republicans and Democrats alike should be on the same side of THIS issue. This is the biggest scandal in recent world history. We have a Secretary General of the UN who is intentionally thwarting the investigation......and we have countries who were anti-Iraq war...and anti-holding Saddam Hussein accountable for the UN resolutions who just may have known these funds were going to kill Israeli's. In fact......of course they KNEW it.

Now....the question remain: Are the Democrats in power in our country going to side with Kofi Anan and the UN here?

__________________
"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

with the exception of Joe Lieberman? No.

And I think some Republicans aren't going to focus on this either. The truth is, scandals hurt a lot of people. If this thing is as big as we think it is, it's going to be bad news for the UN, and all the parties involved. Who knows, there may be some Americans involved in this as well. IF there is one thing I know, scandals can be quite hard to crack because so many people are paid hush money. The media and most politicans are going to be very reluctant to uncover this thing.

*sigh*

Well it's not suprising. However, this will get little press. Why? Because there seems to be some sort of world wide "Let's blame America for all the ills of the world" attitude right now. I deal with it on other sites I go to. Mention that the French and company were not acting out to prevent "American aggression", but to protect their pocket book and watch out. This does point to major problems with the UN, but the world is willing to forgive and look away when the UN is involved for some reason. The UN is corrupt, Oil for Food involved the major opponents to invasion, the facts are clear.

__________________
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Who could argue that Hussein was a terrible person? This, though, adds nothing to the discussion regarding Iraq. We know that he had ties to terrorists; the whole middle east does (most notably the Saudis). If we are going to use support for palestinian terrorists as the new justification, then we need to start invading every country in the middle east and most of the countries in North Africa. They all have ties to terrorists.

__________________
"George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller

Uhhh....PJ.....this thread is about money from the UN's Oil-For-Food program being diverted to help terrorists. No comment on that???? You do know, don't you, that Saddam Hussein made $22 BILLION off illicit kick-backs and sales when he was supposed to be under UN sanctions????? The kids in Iraq were starving and needed medical help, and Saddam Hussein was funding the families who encouraged their teenagers to strap bombs to themselves and kill themselves along with a bunch of innocent people.

__________________
"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

I know what the thread is about. All I am saying is that we knew that Saddam didn't care about his people, and we knew that Saddam funded terrorists, and we knew about the oil-for-food scandal, so today's revelation adds little, if anything, to the discussion regarding Iraq.

__________________
"George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller

Until now, we didn't know that it was specifically the Oil-for-food money that was being used to fund terrorists. The same account that was receiving deposits of OFF kickbacks, was being used to cut checks to the families of suicide bombers.

This means that the UN and those countries benefiting from the OFF arrangement, were (I hope unwittingly) funding terrorism. I believe this should add a whole new dimension to the discussion regarding Iraq.

Money is fungible. In the end, does it matter which money went here and which went there? We knew that he supported terrorists and the source of the money he used is irrelevant to whether we should have invaded or not. It is relevant, though, to the legal case against those implicated in the oil for food scandal. But that is not what we are talking about here.

__________________
"George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller