Democrats tie BayOil to Iraq's purchase of bombs

[dweller]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/business/3184968

By DAVID IVANOVICH
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Houston's BayOil played a key role in helping Saddam Hussein's government purchase cluster bombs during Iraq's bloody war with Iran, Democrats on a Senate panel contend.

These oil-for-arms deals, Senate investigators say, helped cement a relationship that would later enable the little-known oil trader to emerge as the largest supplier of Iraqi crude to the U.S. market under the United Nation's oil-for-food program.

BayOil's Iraqi oil trades are at the heart of the controversy over the United Nation's handling of the humanitarian program. The Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations is scheduled to hold a hearing today on these issues.

In a report made public Monday night, Democratic investigators on the subcommittee traced BayOil's relationship with Saddam's regime back to the mid-1980s, during the brutal, 8-year Iran-Iraq War. The United States provided support for Iraq during the war because of fears about Iran's growing power in the region.

[meegbear]

1. Why does the Houston Cronicle hate America?

[Ilsa]

2. Too bad the Bushies haven't been tied to this one (yet). eom kick

[tinanator]

4. how could they NOT be?

talking some really long odds here.

[Barrett808]

5. Poppy Bush was instrumental in arming Iraq

See:

Alan Friedman, Spider's Web: How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553096508/qid=1116351272/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-9150038-2443236?v=glance&s=books

[dweller]

3. with the Galloway testimony now heard

perhaps this will be of more interest?

selfinflicted :kick:
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