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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Friday, October 01, 2004 ::

Bush's Hands Tied

There's a major diplomatic issue GWB couldn't address in last night's debate: the Oil for Food scandal which nixed France, Russia, Germany and the UN from any meaningful 'coalition' of 'allies' going into Iraq in the first place. So it's easy for Kerry to browbeat the President over the lack of participation by these entities because he knows Bush can't risk alluding to the complicated scam, further damaging relations with Chirac, Schroeder, Putin and Annan while he's trying to put Humpty back together again. This is particularly true as the scandal has received so little media attention--most people are simply unaware that our European 'allies' and the UN had such a profitable conflict of interest with Saddam Hussein's regime.

It's maddening the question of Oil-for-Food never comes up when discussing the 'coalition' situation--if the UN and Europeans had no such conflict, Hussein could have been deposed without any military intervention whatsoever but MSM seems loathe to question Kerry or Bush (much less Chirac and Annan) on this aspect of the war in Iraq.

Update: Looks like the house is zeroing in on Oil for Food. If you have any doubt that Chirac & Co. were scamming the Iraqi people for billions, and that it affected their willingness to depose sugar-daddy Saddam Hussein, your living in fantasy-land. Here's the link [>]

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