Comments on: Oil-for-Food IS the Smoking Gun http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/ The blog of the mystery writer, screenwriter and CEO of Pajamas Media Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cynic http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21634 Cynic Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:52:50 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21634 If there is one thing I thank GWB for, it is unwittingly (as far as we know) exposing UNSCAM. We did not know to what depths the UN and the "superior classes" of Europe had sunk. After burdening the Jews, for milenia, with all sorts of money related "crimes" we find that the filthy lucre does not discriminate. Seems there is a lesson here for all of us. Hopefully now with Americans knowing what the UN is really about they will not wittingly give up their constitutional rights. If there is one thing I thank GWB for, it is unwittingly (as far as we know) exposing UNSCAM.

We did not know to what depths the UN and the “superior classes” of Europe had sunk.

After burdening the Jews, for milenia, with all sorts of money related “crimes” we find that the filthy lucre does not discriminate.

Seems there is a lesson here for all of us.

Hopefully now with Americans knowing what the UN is really about they will not wittingly give up their constitutional rights.

]]> By: Terrye http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21633 Terrye Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:24:41 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21633 rast: Same here. I would think that this would be big news, but I think people just don't want to deal with it. rast:

Same here. I would think that this would be big news, but I think people just don’t want to deal with it.

]]> By: rastajenk http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21632 rastajenk Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:32:30 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21632 Seems to me Oil-for-Food/Duelfer Report IS the "October Surprise." Why this just simmers under the surface without becoming the knockout punch is beyond me. Well, not really, I understand completely, but still, I just don't get it. Seems to me Oil-for-Food/Duelfer Report IS the “October Surprise.” Why this just simmers under the surface without becoming the knockout punch is beyond me. Well, not really, I understand completely, but still, I just don’t get it.

]]> By: Morgan http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21631 Morgan Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:06:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21631 "If the U.S. were consuming less oil and fewer drugs, this whole thing might be a lot easier." I took jj's comment to be an observation on the importance of the money flow to seedy characters in the Middle East with a touch of irony thrown in for fun, not as an indictment of US oil consumption and drug use specifically. “If the U.S. were consuming less oil and fewer drugs, this whole thing might be a lot easier.”

I took jj’s comment to be an observation on the importance of the money flow to seedy characters in the Middle East with a touch of irony thrown in for fun, not as an indictment of US oil consumption and drug use specifically.

]]> By: Terrye http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21630 Terrye Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:02:43 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21630 I think that the UN lost its way little by little until it became that which it was created to oppose: too much in too few hands. And the NYT and WaPo with their prejudices will be remembered as the media that allowed partisan politcs to get in the way of doing what their socalled journalistic creed says they are supposed to do: tell the truth. I think that the UN lost its way little by little until it became that which it was created to oppose: too much in too few hands.

And the NYT and WaPo with their prejudices will be remembered as the media that allowed partisan politcs to get in the way of doing what their socalled journalistic creed says they are supposed to do: tell the truth.

]]> By: Sandy P http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21629 Sandy P Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:09:48 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21629 Ok, jj - so, how are you going to stop the other big consumers of oil, China and India? And Iran since they need those nuke plants for power for their country. Ok, jj – so, how are you going to stop the other big consumers of oil, China and India?

And Iran since they need those nuke plants for power for their country.

]]> By: richard mcenroe http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21628 richard mcenroe Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:57:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21628 JJ ó I ride a bike and I've never even smoked pot. What's your contribution? Roger ó Here, let me move these goalposts before John Clayton hurts himself... "But... but, Roger.... is there any <i>hard</i> evidence that terrorists ever actually bought any bombs or bullets with that money...?" JJ ó I ride a bike and I’ve never even smoked pot. What’s your contribution?

Roger ó Here, let me move these goalposts before John Clayton hurts himself…

“But… but, Roger…. is there any hard evidence that terrorists ever actually bought any bombs or bullets with that money…?”

]]> By: jj http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21627 jj Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:49:44 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21627 You are so right Roger! It's the money! Think how influential money can be in the U.S. Now imagine these huge amounts blowing around the Middle East. I always said that, in the drug war, the money does much more damage than the drugs. This situation with a porous embargo is entirely analogous. And that is why we are having such a hard time finalizing the victory in Iraq. Money is pouring in from Saudi Arabia and Iran to keep the young men causing trouble. I have read that Sadr is actually holding his militia together with drug money and drugs from Iran. If the U.S. were consuming less oil and fewer drugs, this whole thing might be a lot easier. You are so right Roger! It’s the money! Think how influential money can be in the U.S. Now imagine these huge amounts blowing around the Middle East. I always said that, in the drug war, the money does much more damage than the drugs. This situation with a porous embargo is entirely analogous. And that is why we are having such a hard time finalizing the victory in Iraq. Money is pouring in from Saudi Arabia and Iran to keep the young men causing trouble.

I have read that Sadr is actually holding his militia together with drug money and drugs from Iran. If the U.S. were consuming less oil and fewer drugs, this whole thing might be a lot easier.

]]> By: Hogarth http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21626 Hogarth Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:40:47 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2004/10/15/oil-for-food-is-the-smoking-gun/#comment-21626 <i>When the history of this period is written, the likes of The New York Times, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times will look peculiarly disgraceful for this reason.</i> That, of course, depends on who writes the history. I'm not so confident anymore given the real-time revisionist tendencies of the media and literary classes. When the history of this period is written, the likes of The New York Times, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times will look peculiarly disgraceful for this reason.

That, of course, depends on who writes the history. I’m not so confident anymore given the real-time revisionist tendencies of the media and literary classes.

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