FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Possible Saddam-Al Qaeda Link Seen in U.N. Oil-for-Food Program

Ok, this one is a little stale but monumentally important. Many bloggers have been on this one for ages. Roger Simon for one, has been digging at this one and it looks like the edges are starting to give. It is now apparent that Kofi Anan and his progeny are deeply involved in the Oil-for-Food scandal and it's apparent that everyone involved was on the take. Anan's son claims he was merely an advisor and the fact that his company recieved no bid contracts and was merely a coincidence. Were it so, the program wouldn't have been shrouded in such secrecy and cloaked in unaccountability. Those involved were only interested in graft and structured the program to allow graft on two fronts. They allowed Saddam to pad the payments for products to provide kickbacks and they controlled the companies that got the contracts. Those who played along, made money, those who did not, were frozen out. The French were the most perfidious of all our "allies" and not only reaped billions in regular goods but were selling weapons to Saddam as late as 2002. http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040908-123000-1796r.htm Combine that with this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/05/wuran05.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/09/05/ixworld.html
Now it is even more clear that the French were primarily interested in protecting their business interests over the fate of millions of Iraqis. While the US is certainly not pure in this respect, we have not actively attempted to undermine an allied nation in the prelude to a war. France can, in no way, be considered an friendly nation. I submit we should initiate immediate and severe sanctions against France starting with goods and even restricting travel. This is a pipe dream of course, but one I would welcome wholeheartedly. My ban on all things French will now continue until they somehow make amends. I cannot imagine what they could do to right themselves in my eyes but it would have to be huge.

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