#1 Aaaah oui, Paradis perdu! "The former French interior minister received' his little voucher "for 11 million barrels." Is this the same French government which refused to assist in the ouster of the former paymaster in Baghdad? Oui, oui! Maurice Chevalier, singing Thank Heaven for Little Barrels of Oil", La Grande Illusion
Then we have "The Russian foreign ministry received a voucher for 55 million, while Zhirinovsky, a hardline commie, 'got a voucher for 53 million barrels and the Russian Communist Party’s voucher totalled 110 million barrels'. Commies playing the oil markets. Now comrades what would the peasants say about this neo-capitalist swine with the phoney red mask selling out for barrels of crude oil.
I wonder if some of the same player in the shaddy Saddam oil deals have even greater deals with the current (soon to be altered)Iranian government?
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Saddam Hussein made $11 billion in illegal income and eroded the world's toughest economic embargo during his final years as Iraq's leader through shrewd schemes to secretly buy off dozens of countries, top foreign officials and major international figures, said a new report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector released yesterday. The officials allegedly included the former top U.N. official in charge of humanitarian relief, Benon Sevan. Recipients of oil "vouchers" that could be resold for large profits included Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, former Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky and governments, companies and influential individuals in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the report said.