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Well for obvious reasons that is that is something they'd just as soon you not know about;
Q: Who benefited from the lucrative oil vouchers issued by Saddam?
A: The Iraqi dictator targeted countries and individuals who could help him evade economic sanctions and eventually overturn them.
Officials from France, Russia and China were favored but many others also were named in the U.S. report as potential beneficiaries of the practice.......
The inspectors also listed American companies and individuals. Their names were omitted from the officially released report because of U.S. privacy laws.
What was that energy policy task force that Dick headed up? oh yeah their proceedings are all still top secret too....
No the US media isn't going to share that with you you need to look abroad;
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0410/S00132.htm
But the one company that helped Saddam exploit the oil-for-food program in the mid-1990s that wasn't identified in Duelfer's report was Halliburton, and the person at the helm of Halliburton at the time of the scheme was Vice President Dick Cheney. Halliburton and its subsidiaries were one of several American and foreign oil supply companies that helped Iraq increase its crude exports from $4 billion in 1997 to nearly $18 billion in 2000 by skirting U.S. laws and selling Iraq spare parts so it could repair its oil fields and pump more oil. Since the oil-for-food program began, Iraq has sold $40 billion worth of oil. U.S. and European officials have long argued that the increase in Iraq's oil production also expanded Saddam's ability to use some of that money for weapons, luxury goods and palaces. Security Council diplomats estimate that Iraq was skimming off as much as 10 percent of the proceeds from the oil-for-food program thanks to companies like Halliburton and former executives such as Cheney.
U.N. documents show that Halliburton's affiliates have had controversial dealings with the Iraqi regime during Cheney's tenure at the company and played a part in helping Saddam Hussein illegally pocket billions of dollars under the U.N.'s oil-for-food program.
More (old news) here;
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...24/80648.shtml
Q: Who benefited from the lucrative oil vouchers issued by Saddam?
A: The Iraqi dictator targeted countries and individuals who could help him evade economic sanctions and eventually overturn them.
Officials from France, Russia and China were favored but many others also were named in the U.S. report as potential beneficiaries of the practice.......
The inspectors also listed American companies and individuals. Their names were omitted from the officially released report because of U.S. privacy laws.
What was that energy policy task force that Dick headed up? oh yeah their proceedings are all still top secret too....
No the US media isn't going to share that with you you need to look abroad;
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0410/S00132.htm
But the one company that helped Saddam exploit the oil-for-food program in the mid-1990s that wasn't identified in Duelfer's report was Halliburton, and the person at the helm of Halliburton at the time of the scheme was Vice President Dick Cheney. Halliburton and its subsidiaries were one of several American and foreign oil supply companies that helped Iraq increase its crude exports from $4 billion in 1997 to nearly $18 billion in 2000 by skirting U.S. laws and selling Iraq spare parts so it could repair its oil fields and pump more oil. Since the oil-for-food program began, Iraq has sold $40 billion worth of oil. U.S. and European officials have long argued that the increase in Iraq's oil production also expanded Saddam's ability to use some of that money for weapons, luxury goods and palaces. Security Council diplomats estimate that Iraq was skimming off as much as 10 percent of the proceeds from the oil-for-food program thanks to companies like Halliburton and former executives such as Cheney.
U.N. documents show that Halliburton's affiliates have had controversial dealings with the Iraqi regime during Cheney's tenure at the company and played a part in helping Saddam Hussein illegally pocket billions of dollars under the U.N.'s oil-for-food program.
More (old news) here;
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...24/80648.shtml
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I just don't understand you Lefties.
Yes, Halliburton benefited from the "Oil for Food" program.
But the intent was to benefit the poor, starving Iraqi people.
So, what would have happened, and what would you Lefties be saying, if the world would have blocked all oil exports from Iraq?
My question is this...How should the Oil for Food program been ran/administered?
Yes, Halliburton benefited from the "Oil for Food" program.
But the intent was to benefit the poor, starving Iraqi people.
So, what would have happened, and what would you Lefties be saying, if the world would have blocked all oil exports from Iraq?
My question is this...How should the Oil for Food program been ran/administered?
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