Rice's Chevron Scandal

[struggle4progress]

May 10, 2007

JAMES JENNINGS
On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that "Chevron, the second-largest American oil company, is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein on oil it bought from Iraq as part of a defunct United Nations program, according to investigators. ... At the time, Condoleezza Rice, now secretary of state, was a member of Chevron's board and led its public policy committee, which oversaw areas of potential political concerns for the company." full text

Jennings led humanitarian aid projects in Iraq during the period of US-UK sanctions on that country. He said today: "Rice's former corporation, Chevron, is being fined by the U.S. government for paying illegal kickbacks to Saddam Hussein at a time when Condoleezza Rice was sitting on their board. From August 2000, until January 2001, Rice was on Chevron's board... Both the Clinton and Bush administrations ignored the ongoing sanctions violations by five U.S. oil companies, even though they were piling up huge profits. American consumers were unknowingly pumping Iraqi oil while Iraq's children were dying by the tens of thousands under oppressive sanctions. Through it all Saddam got his kickbacks and Rice her profits. After leaving Chevron, she joined Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld in planning their ill-fated attack on Iraq. Coastal Corporation has already paid a fine. Now the Bush administration wants to punish Chevron, but apparently not those persons like Condoleezza Rice under whose nose the scam was performed."

http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1485

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[Dr.Phool]

1. Nobody could have forseen that Saddam would actually take the money.

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[primative1]

2. Maybe it went to charity....

We shouldnt rush to condemn Rice until all the facts are clear

[sellitman]

3. It just went towards a few pairs of High heels.

What's the big deal?

:sarcasm:

[AndyTiedye]

4. This kinda says it all