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Sunday, April 24, 2005Did Canada's PM get rich on Oil For Food while Iraqi children went hungry?It seems like a fair question, given what's coming out.Read Roger Simon here and here (and everywhere else; he's reporting on this alot). Then watch Wretchard connect the dots. Now let's look at some of the powerful people who were either tapped into the Oil For Food financial network or close to those who did. Not all these folks, please note, are direct benefactors. I've put a star with those who just hapen to hang out with the schmoes actually in the network, as opposed to having directly been connected (so far). Understand, then, this isn't a scandal diagram; it's just a look at who hangs out with who in a world where liberating the Iraqi people is an abomination but backroom deals with a dictator to get cheap oil (reducing funds available for starving children) is a-okay: Canadian PM Paul Martin ... Power Corp's Paul Demarais ... Power Director John Rae ... his brother Bob Rae, former Ontario premier* ... TotalFinaElf ... Paribas ... BNP executive council member Amaury-Daniel de Seze ... UN Spec Envoy (and Earth Summit founder) Maurice Strong ... Molten Metal Technologies* ... former VP Al Gore* ... Oil For Food investigator Paul Volcker* ... S Korean businessman Tongsun Park ... businessman Kojo Annan ... his father, UN Gen Sec Kofi Annan* ... Saddam Hussein Nothing new here; all culled from the links above and a few others. But it's interesting to see how Canadian government, French finance and Araab oil all run together into a UN program that fed the wallets of fatcats, not suffering Iraqis. One especially wonders what Al Gore was doing running with these people. Maybe he knew more than we did about the stakes in the battle of the People vs. the Powerful. He just didn't tell us which side he was on. 
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