Thursday, December 02, 2004


AND TO THINK HE WANTS TO BE U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL...

News reports indicate that one of the figures in the growing "Oil for Food" scandal at the United Nations is former fugitive Marc Rich:

Rich is suspected of having become one of Saddam Hussein's middlemen in Iraq's illegal oil trade...Rich... and several other prominent oil traders are suspected of making illegal kickbacks to Iraq to win the lucrative oil contracts...The UN program was set up in 1996 to help Iraqis get food, medicine and other items that had been scarce under sanctions imposed after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. But investigators say Saddam realized more than $21billion under the program through kickbacks and other scams.

Rich, you might recall, is an ex-fugitive because he was pardoned by President Clinton, after his ex-wife, Denise, "raised and donated more than $1 million to the Democratic Party in recent years and also provided the Clintons directly with a $10,000 contribution to their legal defense fund and $7,300 worth of furniture."

Try to remember this in four years, when Hillary runs on a platform of bringing "accountability" back to the White House.


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