Monday, March 15, 2004

Saddam's Coalition of The Bribed?

The Wall Street Journal wants to know who among American anti-war critics got money from Saddam.

"A year ago John Kerry described the nations that would liberate Iraq as a "coalition of the bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted." It turns out that may be a better description of his own antiwar camp. From Jacques Chirac's and Vladimir Putin's political cronies to Tony Blair's own Labour Party, many of the most vocal opponents of enforcing U.N. resolutions turn out to have been on the take."

We know that a lot of Saddam's money went to Denver businessman Shakir al-Khafaji, who then dispensed it to - whom? Supposedly David Bonior was a recipient. Bonior went to Baghdad with representative Jim McDermott, D-Seattle who also got money from al-Khafaji, to call President Bush a liar on Iraqi soil. John Conyers of Michigan has also benefitted from al-Khafaji's generosity.

Was all this money originally from the hopelessly corrupt UN Oil-For-Food program? Was Saddam assembling his own coalition of the bribed?

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