Aiding and Abetting the "Enemy"--a Bush Family Tradition
Senator Carl Levin disclosed on Tuesday that the Bush administration "directly abetted Jordan's efforts to build up its strategic reserves with smuggled Iraqi oil in the weeks before the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003."
Of course, we now know (and many of us knew then) that Iraq was NOT our enemy, posing no threat from 8000 miles from either the WMD's it did not have or the conventional weapons it did; nor were they supporting al Qaeda. But that's not what the Bushies said, repeatedly. They thought Iraq was so much an enemy that it justified bombing and invading that country at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. So, on their terms, Iraq was definitely the enemy. And they were definitely aiding and abetting Iraq by allowing them to circumvent the UN sanctions. US soldiers have probably been killed with bullets purchased with that money.
There's a simple word for what the Bushies did: Treason.
It's clear now that the US, both Bush and Clinton administrations, use the UN as a tool to get their way (just like they use the Democrats). They insist on sticking to UN principles and resolutions when it suits them, ignore them when it doesn't, and insult and abuse the UN as an institution as a matter of course. The UN sanctions on Iraq didn't prevent Saddam from selling oil--they only allowed the US to control whom he sold it to.
Amazing how this story of high treason has made front-page news this week, isn't it? I just heard of Levin's disclosures this morning from reading Bob Harris' blog post from Friday.
And remember, Bush's granddad was involved in financing Hitler, and his father was neck-deep in the arming of both sides of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980's (and is probably still involved in all sorts of evil deeds through the Carlyle Group). The Bush's are the most successful crime family in history.
The illicit oil exports took place outside the Iraq oil-for-food program, which the United Nations administered from 1996 to 2003. While allegations of corruption and mismanagement in that program are under investigation by five congressional committees, the Justice Department and a U.N.-appointed panel, the illicit oil exports outside the program have received less scrutiny. According to investigators, Iraq received more revenue from those exports than from the alleged oil-for-food kickbacks.--Washington Post
"The bulk of [Saddam Hussein's] illicit oil sale revenues actually came from the money he received from unregulated sales of Iraqi oil, entirely outside of the oil-for-food program, primarily to Turkey, Jordan and Syria," Levin said at a hearing Tuesday on the U.N. management of Iraqi oil revenue. "We and the rest of the world looked the other way from those sales even though they were prohibited by the U.N. sanctions regime."
Of course, we now know (and many of us knew then) that Iraq was NOT our enemy, posing no threat from 8000 miles from either the WMD's it did not have or the conventional weapons it did; nor were they supporting al Qaeda. But that's not what the Bushies said, repeatedly. They thought Iraq was so much an enemy that it justified bombing and invading that country at the cost of tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. So, on their terms, Iraq was definitely the enemy. And they were definitely aiding and abetting Iraq by allowing them to circumvent the UN sanctions. US soldiers have probably been killed with bullets purchased with that money.
There's a simple word for what the Bushies did: Treason.
It's clear now that the US, both Bush and Clinton administrations, use the UN as a tool to get their way (just like they use the Democrats). They insist on sticking to UN principles and resolutions when it suits them, ignore them when it doesn't, and insult and abuse the UN as an institution as a matter of course. The UN sanctions on Iraq didn't prevent Saddam from selling oil--they only allowed the US to control whom he sold it to.
Amazing how this story of high treason has made front-page news this week, isn't it? I just heard of Levin's disclosures this morning from reading Bob Harris' blog post from Friday.
And remember, Bush's granddad was involved in financing Hitler, and his father was neck-deep in the arming of both sides of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980's (and is probably still involved in all sorts of evil deeds through the Carlyle Group). The Bush's are the most successful crime family in history.
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