Okay Class let's re-open our "Mark Rich Pardon" books to page...

[underpants]

You can just FEEL this one coming.

ON a side note Norm Coleman admitted on The Today Show this morning that the whole RW created controversy (yes the networks bit) on the "Oil for Food" scandal (they found them a new bad guy) could end up being construed as a NEW reason for the Riaq war-Blame the UN for the US invading Iraq.

Coleman-"You can make that inference"<---no link yet

Okay now back to Rich and...............Cheney's chief of staff I.E. "Scooter" Libby.

Here is the ABC WNT report that aired last night (psst the night before NBC reported on how sloppily the US ran the "Oil for Food" program and Irai oil revenues once THEY took control of it almost two years ago )



http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=295926&page=1
Dec. 1, 2004 — Former American fugitive Marc Rich was a middleman for several of Iraq's suspect oil deals in February 2001, just one month after his pardon from President Clinton, according to oil industry shipping records obtained by ABC News.

And a U.S. criminal investigation is looking into whether Rich, as well as several other prominent oil traders, made illegal payments to Iraq in order to obtain the lucrative oil contracts.


Oh about Libby
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york030201.shtml

In a session that stretched late into the evening, Libby, who represented Rich for several years ending in the spring of 2000, told the committee he believes Rich is not guilty of the tax and racketeering charges filed by federal prosecutors in 1983. Libby also said he "quite possibly" would have considered applying for a pardon for Rich had Rich asked him to do so.

Libby, who said his law firms collected as much as $2 million for representing Rich, testified he had nothing to do with the application that led to clemency for Rich. He declined to say whether he approved of the decision to pardon Rich, but he conceded that he called Rich on January 22, two days after the pardon, to "congratulate him on having reached a result that he had sought for a long time." Libby testified he made the call from his home to make clear that he was calling in a personal capacity, and not as a representative of the Bush administration.

In a particularly damaging exchange with Pennsylvania Democrat Paul Kanjorski , Libby agreed that Rich might be characterized as a traitor for fleeing the country and renouncing his American citizenship. Kanjorski asked Libby why he would call a traitor to congratulate him on his good fortune in winning a pardon. Visibly uncomfortable, Libby had no answer.

[russian33]

1. So, to summarize..it's Clinton's fault

the Oil for Food program fiasco and the war in Iraq, all Clinton's fault. He is more powerful than God!

[underpants]

4. YeahI think that is where this is going

and as a BONUS they get to demonize the UN and have themselves a brand new BAD GUY (Kerry is gone and they don't want to mention OBL or Zakawi too much-they can't find them)

[russian33]

5. You know, in their defense...

..It takes a lot of creativity and clever BS, to still somehow pin things on Clinton...as for people who believe it, there's no defense...they're just morAns

[Village Idiot]

2. It's interesting that...

Kojo receiving $2500 per month ($30,000/yr) from Cotechna in deferred income is evidence of fraud, scam, conflict of interest etc...according to ReThuglicans, yet Dick Cheney receiving $250,000 per year in deferred income from Halliburton (who got $BILLIONS in NO-BID contracts) is another thing ENTIRELY...

Are we missing something, here, or have we just become so used to ReThuglican hypocrisy that we don't notice anymore...I haven't heard ANYONE mentioning this in the press...

[underpants]

3. Kojo worked for the company but I can't find any evidence....

that he worked on the oil for food part. There was an article here just yesterday I will see if I can find it.

Notice no one even mentions THAT-

He worked for the company He got paid by them last year
He worked for the company He got paid by them last year
He worked for the company He got paid by them last year
He worked for the company He got paid by them last year
He worked for the company He got paid by them last year
He worked for the company He got paid by them last year
He worked for the company He got paid by them last year
He worked for the company He got paid by them last year