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I posted this earlier on DU--but worth posting again

BRIT EXPOSES SEN. COLEMAN AS A FOOL; (John Nichols)




what a GRAND headline!! Yeah Cap Times!!
Nicols email is below -if anyone wants to say a THANK YOU

BRIT EXPOSES SEN. COLEMAN AS A FOOL;


John Nichols. Madison Capital Times. Madison, Wis.:
May 19, 2005. p. 14.A

Document URL:
http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/pqdweb...

Abstract (Document Summary)
The U.S. media, which thrives on official sound bites, was more than willing to lend credence to 's overblown claims about wrongdoing in the U.N. program set up in 1996 to permit Iraq - which was then under strict international sanctions - to buy food, medicine and humanitarian supplies with the revenues from regulated oil sales. Even as Coleman's claims became more and more fantastic, he faced few challenges from the cowering Democrats in Congress.

The Senate investigation that Coleman sought regarding the oil- for-food program has already revealed that the Bush administration failed to crack down on widespread abuse of the program by U.S. energy companies, and that U.S. oil purchases accounted for the majority of the kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein's regime in return for sales of inexpensive oil. Indeed, the report concludes, "The United States (government) was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated U.N. sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained from circumventing U.N. sanctions. On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales."

* The problem for Coleman is that is not a standard- issue American politician - the kind who has nothing to say and says it poorly. He is a veteran of the rough-and-tumble politics of Glasgow and the equally rough-and-tumble politics of the British Parliament. In other words, Galloway comes from places where voters and politicians do not suffer fools. And anyone who has ever followed British politics knows that George Galloway has beaten every political challenge he has faced - even those posed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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Copyright Madison Newspapers, Inc. May 19, 2005

John Nichols is associate editor for The Capital Times.
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Norm Coleman is a fool.

Not an ideological nut case, not a partisan whack, not even a useful idiot - just a plain old-fashioned, drool-on-his-tie fool.

The Minnesota Republican senator, who took Paul Wellstone's seat after waging one of the most disreputable campaigns in American political history, has been trying over the past year to make a name for himself by blowing the controversy surrounding the United Nations oil-for-food program into something more than the chronicle of corporate abuse that it is........