More On The Coalition Of The Bribed

Again, it turns out that some of our fiercest critics were being enriched by Saddam Hussein.

A longtime ally of French President Jacques Chirac and a leading British critic of the Iraq war received huge contracts to resell Iraqi oil from Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program, Senate investigators have found.
In findings being released today, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs permanent subcommittee on investigations charges that former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and British Member of Parliament George Galloway each received the right to market more than 10 million barrels of cut-rate oil from dictator Saddam's Oil Ministry between 1999 and 2003.

So far, George Bush has been too gentlemanly to make an issue of this. But these and other revelations about Saddam Hussein's allies will be made public before Congress next week.