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Iraq sues companies over oil-for-food kickbacks
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by Barry ORegan | June 30, 2008 at 11:13 pm
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Soldiers fighting and dying in Iraq must be feeling cold comfort in knowing what they thought was making a difference to a people suffering, will now know what was rumoured to be will certainly be pissed to know it was never about the War on Terror, War for Oil, but for "Oil for Food" to a desperate people as Saddam and Big Corporates made a killing when trade sanctions were in place by the US government. Certainly rules to corporates do not apply, one wonders if Politicians knew of this, and if so, will they be named publicly?
Certainly US families who buried their sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers who fought to make a difference, may feel their family members died under false pretenses.
What will become in all this? Hopefully some long jail terms to those convicted in doing what is ripe to Genocide.
Iraqi citizens may not have direct recourse, but Canadian and Americans here at home can ensure it will be a "Cold day in Hell" before we ever set foot into their establishments.
Then perhaps Corporates complict in this Oil, Goods for Food will get the message that using our sons and daughters to fight for your Bottom Profit Line, "Stops Now!"
Iraq sues companies over oil-for-food kickbacksChevron, DaimlerChrysler, Kodak among firms named in suitChristine Kearney, ReutersPublished: Monday, June 30, 2008NEW YORK - The Iraqi government sued dozens of companies, including oil giant Chevron Corp., for more than $10 billion on Monday, saying they paid kickbacks to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's government under the U.N. oil-for-food program.
The civil lawsuit, filed in U.S. federal court in Manhattan, seeks to recover damages from companies investigated by a U.N.-commissioned inquiry, claiming they cheated the Iraqi people out of benefits of the $67 billion U.N. program.
The U.N. oil-for-food program, which ran from 1996 to 2003, was created to help Iraqis cope with U.N. sanctions after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. The program allowed Baghdad to sell oil in order to buy humanitarian goods.
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Barry ORegan
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at 08:42 on July 1st, 2008
Barry said....
The question is not about if they knew about this, the question is how many politicions knew about it.
at 08:49 on July 1st, 2008
Thanks Nuke for the visit and comments, granted it would be interesting to find our before your next general election which politicians knew about this and did nothing. I am sure voters would be keen to know as well. One can only imagine Politicians strapping on lifejackets, frantically searching for oars, as "Shit Creek" begins to tide over to their electoral districts.
at 09:08 on July 1st, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Mr.Natwar Singh Foreign Minister,India in the congress govt. lost hisportfolio because his son Andleeb Singh was involved in the same scam few years back.
at 11:45 on July 1st, 2008
Kodak? What the Hell! Was this part of the smaller "Pics for Food" scandal?
If these companies broke the law they should be punished. It is illegal for Americans to bribe anyone in the world (we're not talking about small kickbacks to small fry to get paperwork done quicker though).
On a sidenote, it looks like the democrats will be getting their windfall profits tax passed - by the Iraqis.
at 11:48 on July 1st, 2008
One can assume so BigT, I wonder what Iraqi's needed kodak film for to trade oil for it? Holiday snaps?
Thanks for the visit and the flag