Were Republicans tied to the corrupt 'oil for food' program?

[ck4829]

I saw the beginning for a program on Fox News, the man on it said we
should all wonder if we ever trust the UN again for the Oil for Food
Scandal. But, was it just the UN that was involved?

The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16201-2004Oct7.html
(The Article requires you to register, but it is free)
CIA analyst Charles A. Duelfer's report on Iraq's weapons programs
included lists of governments, political parties, companies and
individuals from at least 44 nations who received vouchers to buy
oil -- both legally and otherwise -- from the Iraqi government during
Saddam Hussein's reign.

The names on the politically explosive list are French, Russian,
Chinese, Canadian and Japanese; if Duelfer had had his way, U.S.
companies and individuals would have been included, too.

But he was overruled by CIA lawyers. The report instead lists some
voucher recipients only as "U.S. person" and "U.S. company."

3 Companies have already been revealed to have worked with this
program.
Exxon Mobil
http://www.publicintegrity.org/oil/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=0000131174
ChevronTexaco, the same company that Condoleezza Rice has worked for.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/oil/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=0000150878
and Valero Energy
http://www.publicintegrity.org/oil/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=0000112165

And then there is this:
"Bush administration officials who asked not to be identified
confirmed that US investigators in Iraq have targeted several
American companies and individuals -- none of whom were US government
officials at the time -- for allegedly providing Hussein's government
with goods prohibited by UN sanctions, which were applied against
Iraq after its defeat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/10/08/us_pr
obes_illicit_sales_to_hussein/

That is an interesting way to say it. Why would they say these
individuals weren't US government officials at the time unless they
were US government officials at some other time, either formerly,
after, or even today?

Dick Cheney was not a US government official at the time the 'Oil for
Food' Program was going on.

The United States had concluded that Iraq, Libya, and Iran supported
terrorism and had imposed strict sanctions on them. Yet during
Cheney's tenure at Halliburton the company did business in all three
countries. In the case of Iraq, Halliburton legally evaded U.S.
sanctions by conducting its oil-service business through foreign
subsidiaries that had once been owned by Dresser. With Iran and
Libya, Halliburton used its own subsidiaries. The use of foreign
subsidiaries may have helped the company to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040216fa_fact

[trotsky]

1. How interesting.

If true, that would explain how they were so sure about abuses.

[vetwife]

2. If anything is corrupt...they are tied to it !

[AlCzervik]

3. there is a guy from one of these oil companies

that i think is a bush supporter but i cant remember how to spell his name, it's something like...Oscar wylde.

[leesa]

4. Is there ever a corrupt business they aren't involved in?

[troubleinwinter]

5. Does a bear shit in the woods?