US Democrat Now Linked to Oil For Food Scandal
Not just antiwar...
A top democrat not only propped up the brutal Saddam Hussein Regime but took money from Saddam agents linked to the Oil for Food Scandal.
U.S. Congressmen David E. Bonior (D-Mi) (L) and Jim McDermott (D-Wa) join Salem al-Kubaisi (C), head of the Arab and Foreign Relations Committee, in attending the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad, September 30, 2002. Three U.S. Congressmen, on a humanitarian fact-finding mission in Iraq, visited the southern port city of Basra on Sunday to check the living conditions and health of civilians after more than a decade of U.N. sanctions. (REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber)
On January 25, 2004, a daily newspaper in Iraq called al Mada published a list of individuals and organizations who it says received oil from the now-deposed regime. Among those listed is Shakir al Khafaji, an Iraqi-American from Detroit, who ran “Expatriate Conferences” for the regime in Baghdad.
More on Al-Khafaji:
In 2004 he was reported by the Wall Street Journal to have received funds from Saddam Hussein and to have helped bankroll the lobbying activities of former weapons-inspector turned anti-sanctions activist, Scott Ritter - notably $400,000 for a 2000 documentary In Shifting Sands on the effects of the sanctions. Al Khafaji admitted to the Financial Times to selling oil he received from Hussein's government to Italtech, an Italian company. The newspaper estimated he made around $1.1m from the oil for food programme.Al Khafaji also contributed $400,000 to the production of Scott Ritter’s film “In Shifting Sands” on the effects of the UN sanctions. Finally, al Khafaji arranged travel and financing for the “Baghdad Democrats”—Jim McDermott, Mike Thompson and David Bonior—in 2002. Following the trip, al Khafaji contributed $5,000 to McDermott’s Legal Defense Fund. McDermott was under investigation for leaking an illegally recorded Republican telephone conversation. On March 29, 2006, the court ruled 2-1 that McDermott violated federal law when he turned over the illegally recorded tape to the New York Times and other media outlets.
Al Khafaji's name appears at least twice in the 2004 Duelfer Report, for oil export contracts M/8/117 and M/10/24. He was one of two Americans on the 270-name Al Mada list.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 3/27/2008 05:21:00 AM
7 Comments:
The "effects of the U.N. sanctions" didn't hurt Saddam, they hurt his people. So these brainiac Democrats ought to have looked at Saddam as the common denominator here, not the bad old U.S. of A. for the sanctions.
Leftists like to show pictures and file footage of children in hospitals not getting the care they needed under Saddam because of the sanctions, but what these bozos neglected to tell is the other half of the story. That Saddam lived with golden toilets while this people lived in sqwaller.
The fact is that if these 3 Democrats really cared about the humanitarian crisis in Iraq they would have looked no further than Saddam, the common denominator. Getting him out was the only solution. It had ot be done sooner or later, and later was a tremendous risk.
But it is good to know we have diplomats in our country like these three and Joe Wilson doing the hard work of looking out for the dictators of the world. I mean, if they don't, who will?
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
The Democrats are just living the above proverb.
Their enemy is the United States, so it is only natural for them to ally themselves with others who share the same views.
Amy,
The left and the Democrats have never cared about such things as "human rights", "freedom", "the environment" or any of the other "issues" that they say they do. They only "care" about it if they can use it as a tool against the United States. They see any "humanitarian crisis" in the same light. Why do you think they have only made the minimum squawkage about Darfur? Because it is all aobut the Chinese oil, not "AmeriKKKan" oil.
Got some reading material for you...
Gerard Van Der Leun has an excellent essay up right now entitled "Radical Roots and the Conquest of the Democratic Party". it pretty much sums up why the Democratic party is the enemy within and should be treated as traitors.
Dennis Prager has a great essay up entitled "Why Do Palestinians Get Much More Attention than Tibetans?" Once you have read it you will understand the hypocrisy of the LLL's and the Democrats.
nahanni, I agree. Democrats use the facade of sincere humanity as a promotional tool for their ideological and social agendas. It's that simple.
I have to wonder how Senator Mccain, member of the worst Congress in the history the United States, as CIC would address his friends across the aisle?
My guess, he'll poo-poo Conservatives for being uptight bigots.
After McCain's speech yesterday I have given up and will write-in a Conservative; I cannot support many candidate who is a memeber of the worst Congress in American history.
The only thing left I can do is support those candidates running for Congress who are Conservative, I will no longer support stuck-up, snotty-nosed country-club Republicans.
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Democrat connections..
Saddam Hussein..
Oil For Food Scandal..
Chavez Oil..
Reyes et al (FARC)..
not to mention Pelosi kisssin' Assad et al butts, while at the same time snubbing Bush, Petreaus & Uribe..
to tell you the truth, i wouldn't be surprised if we found out that the Democrats were behind 9/11..
okay, so the last one is a counter punch, but like i always say, ya never know (especially since Clinton lied & people died on 9/11)..
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oh btw.. Obama's man Rezko is also linked to Saddam, go f&gure..
more here..
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Jim McDermott: "We Don't Mind Being Used" by Saddam Hussein
excerpts:
[All of this was public record -- available to the lawmakers with a Google or Nexis search. But they went anyway.]
[In any case, they knew well that they would be used as propaganda tools before they left. This is how we put it in a piece on the trip back in October 2002:]
[Once again? "We don't mind being used."]
i believe McDermott (speaking for himself)
not only says it all, but puts it in context..
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