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2003-12-29 Iraq
Saddam Says He Siphoned Billions
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Posted by Steve 2003-12-29 9:43:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Given the deep pockets, a lot of American lawyers are probably thinking how they could represent someone who can sue Saddam for wrongful death.
Posted by mhw 2003-12-29 9:50:45 AM||   2003-12-29 9:50:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 So, how hard do you need to suck on the hose to siphon billions? And does it taste as bad as gasoline?
Posted by Chuck Simmins  2003-12-29 9:56:41 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org]  2003-12-29 9:56:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The giggle juice must be working...
Posted by Nick  2003-12-29 12:32:00 PM||   2003-12-29 12:32:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 It's the round-the-clock Brittney Spears videos that are doing the job. Could YOU resist?
Posted by Old Patriot  2003-12-29 1:03:04 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm]  2003-12-29 1:03:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Even if we identify all the accounts, I wouldn't get too hopeful that the money will be returned to Iraq. Remember, it's the Swiss holding the $$$. After acknowledging that they held (and profited from) some $12 billion of money looted from the Jews by Hitler, it was decades before any of it started to trickle back. Don't expect much speedier resolution here.
Posted by Rivrdog  2003-12-29 2:47:25 PM||   2003-12-29 2:47:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Jews didn't have ICBMs to persuade the Swiss. :-)
Posted by JFM  2003-12-29 3:07:18 PM||   2003-12-29 3:07:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if his wife(s) own 8 trillion pairs of shoes...
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2003-12-29 3:11:31 PM||   2003-12-29 3:11:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 It is important that we rigorously document and track the money back to where it is stored now. If it goes back to Swiss bank accounts, the Swiss Govt will need some serious public heat. This is the same as the Taliban aiding and abetting Al Q, which is like harboring terrorists. This neutrality stance is more of a crock of s--t, when a nation's banking system is in the middle of the equivalent of money laundering.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-29 4:27:26 PM||   2003-12-29 4:27:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 This suggests another thought.. Saddam was worth $40 billion. Bill Gates is worth $50 billion.

Maybe Billy-boy is giving a little consideration to the thought that, as he's not THAT much richer than Saddam, he might wake up one morning with the 82nd Airborne outside his front door wanting to talk to him about all of the customers he's annoyed these past twenty years?

Now THERE'S a lovely thought. *grin*

Ed.
Posted by Ed Becerra 2003-12-29 7:06:22 PM||   2003-12-29 7:06:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Lacking a sense of humor as I do, it occurred to me that $40 billion is almost half of what Congress signed off on for Iraqi reconstruction. If Sammy hadn't skimmed the cash, and he hadn't pissed at least as much away on arms and ammunition and palaces, Iraq would be the richest country in the area.
Posted by Fred  2003-12-29 9:09:25 PM||   2003-12-29 9:09:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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