This & That, Ceci et Cela

Interesting commentary on the real facilitators of the UN oil-for-food scandal.
Chris Floyd declares in “Global Eye Gut Check“: “All the guff about law, democracy and morality is just cornball for the yokels back home and for the cannon fodder sent off to die in the elite’s commercial and dynastic wars”.

Interesting to learn that although Texas oil baron David Chalmers of Bayoil and his partners were charged in the scandal, three U.S. presidents (the two George Bushes and Bill Clinton) had brokered even bigger backroom oil deals for Saddam.
…Also: When Bush I sent Saddam billions in U.S.-backed “agricultural credits” through BNL, an Italian bank tied up with BCCI (yes, the same bank involved in money laundering, bribery, support of terrorism, arms trafficking, etc before its collapse).  Later, a BCCI subsidiary bailed out one of Bush Junior (Neil Bush)’s many business failures with $25 million in cash. That deal had been brokered by mysterious Arkansas tycoon Jackson Stephens, one of the Bush family’s biggest campaign contributors. Curiously enough, Stephens was also a top moneyman for another leading politician: Bill Clinton. When Clinton took office, he obligingly deep-sixed the continuing probes into BCCI, Iraqgate and Iran-Contra.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

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