Dec 17 2005

Oh Glorious Success In Iraq

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4 Responses to “Oh Glorious Success In Iraq”

1. Snapple says:

   December 17, 2005 at 12:42 pm

   I am so proud of my President, and I am proud to be American.

   Pictures are fantastic!

   Obviously, the Iraqis want to vote, and that is the first step.

2. Snapple says:

   December 19, 2005 at 8:27 am

   AJ–

   There are some interesting articles about this Canadian Maurice Strong and his connections to the Oil-For-Food and North Korea.

   I don’t quite get this, but Tongsun Park is involved. He was the guy in “Koreagate” who gave all those congressmen money.

   “Washington is a marvelous city for someone like me,” [Park] told the House ethics committee in April 1978. “Where else could a foreigner, an outsider like myself, do the things I was able to do?”
   [He means buy politicians.]

   Now it seems that Park was a middle-man between
   corrupt UN guys and Saddam, so now the FBI is after him.

   “Park gained his entree into Washington society as a student at Georgetown University, where his classmates included Thomas H. Boggs Jr., son of a former House leader, who went on to become a prominent Democratic Party fundraiser and lobbyist. Boggs’s law firm is representing Park in the oil-for-food case. ”

   Park is South Korean, but Strong worked with the N. Koreans at the UN. I wonder if this S. Korean businessman Park could really be an agent of N. Korea.

   “Park, allegedly an influence peddler for Saddam Hussein, reportedly took cash in a plastic bag to a Jordanian bank where he deposited it before writing “Mr. M. Strong” on a cheque in the amount of $988,885. The money was used by Strong to purchase a stake in Cordex Petroleum Inc., which was run by Strong’s son, Fred.”

   Now look at this: “Canadian members of parliament voted against investigating whether Canada had any role in the UN Oil-for-Food scandal. ”

   Maybe that is because they are all afraid that an investigation would show they are taking oil-for-food money.

   I am thinking that N. Korea and Saddam could have had some joint venture here.

   I wonder if a lot of politicians are taking money from Saddam and N. Korea. But this is complicated so I am only speculating.

   If they were, maybe these politicians were spied on by the National Security Agency. Maybe that is why some politicians are flipping out about “domestic spying.”

   Well, I am speculating too much, probably. Sorry if my thinking seems muddled.

   Here are two articles.

   http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover120905.htm

   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54646-2005Apr14.html

3. Snapple says:

   December 19, 2005 at 8:36 am

   The WP article says “Park exported 1 million tons of Louisiana rice to Korea between 1966 and 1976. ” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54646-2005Apr14.html

   I think that Tariq Azziz used to be in charge of buying rice for Iraq years ago. Something like that. So I wonder about how rice trading might be used to pay for other things.

4. Snapple says:

   December 19, 2005 at 8:48 am

   According to this article http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover120905.htm

   SNIPS
   Conservative Foreign Affairs critic Stockwell Day asked, “Can the Prime Minister assure us that Canadians are not involved in the scandal surrounding the UN’s oil for food program, yes or no?”

   Pettigrew responded: “Mr. Speaker, clearly the answer is no, they are not, We have noted the public statements by Mr. Strong concerning the nature of his dealings with Tongsun Park, in which he indicated that these were connected to his work relating to North Korea on behalf of the Secretary General of the UN.”

   While environmental leaders attending this week’s UN climate conference in Montreal expected to hear from Strong–who is generally accepted as the architect of the Kyoto protocol–they heard from Prime Minister Paul Martin instead.

   Strong is rarely heard from since allegations of his ties to the oil-for-food scandal became public. Martin, who took time out the Canadian election campaign, did what Maurice Strong does best: criticize the United States of America.

   The criticism Martin leveled against the U.S. coincided with the day the draft report of the House International Relations subcommittee [on Oil for Food] became public.
   END SNIP

   Wow! It is starting to dawn on me that our politicians and the Canadian politicians are really on the take from Saddam and perhaps even North Korea..

   They will need political and intelligence operatives to protect themselves and to destroy people who ask questions. I suppose some trained intelligence professionals are corrupted and sell-out to the crooked politicians instead of serving the national interest.

   How scary!