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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 02:07 PM
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Who's behind the oil-for-food scandal?
Who's behind the oil-for-food scandal?
By Jude Wanniski

Wednesday 08 December 2004, 14:03 Makka Time, 11:03 GMT


Once it became clear some months ago that Saddam Hussein had been telling the truth about not having weapons of mass destruction or connections to al-Qaida, it should have been an embarrassment to the neo-conservatives who talked President George Bush into war with Iraq.

They were not in the least embarrassed, though, because they had known well before the invasion that Saddam had done everything he could possibly do to assure the world that he was no threat to the region, the US and the world.

Their intent all along was no secret: They wanted "regime change" to fit their plans for an American empire, with a permanent outpost in Baghdad.

To do this, they had to clear out all the obstacles in their path - which meant open assaults on the international institutions that had been developed to prevent war, through diplomacy backed by the threat of sanctions.

more...
<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/561BE24F-B06B-4CC1-B28A-F6845EA8E469.htm>

More evidence of the neo-con plot to create a global empire.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 05:36 PM
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1. The Carlyle Group!!!!!
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Matilda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 07:14 PM
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2. Norman Coleman - isn't he the man who would have lost to Wellstone?
A Bush stooge, obviously.

I also read this very informative article yesterday, "Ten Things
Progressives Should Know About the Oil for Food Scandal":

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1208-21.htm

I'm sure we all knew Bushco were behind it all - what a sleazy lot
they are.

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