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So no answer? Good job.

-Rudey
--Want a bisquit?

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Originally posted by RACooper
I'll take that as a compliment coming from the master of evasive debate ;)

Again it all seems to depend on what reports you look at - is it really France and Russia profiting if the US accounts for more that half the illegally purchased oil? Every western nation basically had someone or corporation in on the take - it's just that lately "some" folks have been using/mainpulating facts to fit or back-up policy (sound familiar?).

The more you look into it the more hyporcritical those outraged the most sound - simply because they are using half-truths to make political attacks on opponents or critics.

Sure Wikipedia has got some good information on it - but that's info subject to contributions and editors... so it has to be approached with caution - but it does have some good links to primary sources:

Subcommittee's website
http://hsgac.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fu...1&Initials=PSI

Washington Post article on Duefler report
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Oct7.html

CorpWatch article (yeah I know but the authors are actually credible - ie. WSJ)
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11569

Article from The Nation (again careful of the bias):
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041206/gordon

In the end I gotta wonder how much of the vitrol coming almost exclusively from the right in the US is genuine outrage at the scandal - and how much is in keeping with the anti-UN policy of the far-right and neo-cons? Regardless it doesn't really seem to make much sense for the right to be pointing fingers at nations that opposed Bush's war - simply because the supporting nation's hands are just as bloody when it comes down to it. But then again why should anything be different now? There are greedy corportations and politicos always willing to make a buck no matter what the human cost - they should all be prosecuted, not just the ones that ideological opponents...

The problem is I don't think were are going to really know for years, after enough time has passed for serious scholarly research into the whole bag of sh*t that the Oil for Food scandal is...