Friday, September 15, 2006
what's your take on this?
A friend of mine just did 3 years for essentially the same story. My take is that it is a victimless crime: he was talking to an fbi agent, not a 15yo girl. Any of you understands how this works ?
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Same thing happened to Scott Ritter, a Saddam apologist and US Administration critic. No doubt, it's all a BushHitler-Cheney-Halliburton conspiracy!
Didn't Sandy "Pants" Berger get in trouble with the FBI for unlawful pants use?
Ritter, who has recently appeared in major newspaper and television news reports warning that a U.S. attack on Iraq could kill thousands of U.S. soldiers and Iraqis
yeh, what a moron.
Pepe hit it on the head, with Ritter the UnMoron; It takes a pedophile in Saddams pay to scry that rain will wet all it falls on.
a pedophile in Saddams pay
there was a time (before Rove) when one wouldn't hit below the belt for political points. Was he really on the payroll ?
Yes, Ritter was in Saddam's pocket. Perhaps not to the same extent as Galloway (who can compete with dear George?) but still, measurably so, as mentioned
for example here (page 2):
Al-Khafaji first came to public notice after revelations that he gave former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter $400,000 to produce a film that criticized the United States for its role in the inspection process. Al-Khafaji, who is listed as a "senior executive producer" of the film, arranged meetings for Ritter with high-level officials in Saddam's government, a feat New York Times magazine writer Barry Bearak found "impressive." Ritter had previously been an outspoken critic of Saddam Hussein, and issued dire warnings about the status of the Iraqi dictator's weapons of mass destruction. His sudden flip--he is now a leading apologist for Saddam's regime--and revelations about Ritter's 2001 arrest for soliciting sex with minors have fueled speculation about the nature of his relationship with al-Khafaji.
And, lest we forget, Saddam's payola scheme was not just a little slide-show. Rather, the largest bribery scheme in the history of the world:
Yes, we mean that literally. Total turnover between 1996 and 2003 was about $97 billion, or $64.2 billion in oil sales and $32.9 billion worth of food and other "humanitarian" goods. Crucially, Saddam was able to manipulate the program largely because U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan--who was given more or less complete discretion to design Oil for Food by the Security Council resolution that created it--allowed him to pick and choose the buyers of his oil and the sellers of the humanitarian goods.
Ritter was a relatively small fish in this big cesspool. He got his 30 dineros for badmouthing his country. But, as JJ tirelessly tells us, this is just "free speech", not "aid and comfort". Whatever, dude.
Was he on the payroll? No more than George Galloway. Galloway got special "oil vouchers". Ritter got an Iraqui "grant of support" for writing a book against US policy on Iraq, in the late 90's. Both were very lucrative.
However I do admit that, by the standards French and UN politicos were accustomed to, it would be comical to think that one could be bought for so little.
However I do admit that, by the standards French and UN politicos were accustomed to, it would be comical to think that one could be bought for so little.
You think Abramoff, Ney, the hammmer-terminix dude and half of the Republican congress took lessons from us ?
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