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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Treason
A list has been published of people who were bribed with Iraqi money and oil by the former regime.

From the MEMRI:

Canada: Arthur Millholland, president and CEO of the Calgary-based Oilexco company, received 1 million barrels of oil.

Then, look at this:

Making money first drew Arthur Millholland to Iraq.

He thought getting involved in the Oil For Food program would leave his
company, Oilexco, in good standing when the sanctions ended.

But it didn't take long before he became disillusioned with the program and
an outspoken activist.

The transformation was simple.

``You can't ignore what you see,'' says Millholland, 40, the company's
president, from his office in Calgary. ``It's appalling.''

When he first saw starving children on the streets, he thought that buying
Iraqi crude oil - he pays the United Nations which in turn gives Iraq food
and medicine - would make him feel like he was helping.

It hasn't worked out that way.

``It's a huge problem. The Oil For Food program is just a Band-Aid. It's not
going to fix anything.''

Lifting the sanctions is the only way to make the lives of ordinary Iraqis
better, he believes.


Yep, a real 'activist' there.

Here's another one:

United States: Samir Vincent received 10.5 million barrels. In 2000, Vincent, an Iraqi-born American citizen who has lived in the U.S. since 1958, organized a delegation of Iraqi religious leaders to visit the U.S. and meet with former president Jimmy Carter.

And, then, we find this:

Many people are mobilizing to effect a change in this failed international policy. Iraqi-born U.S. citizen Samir Vincent, who has lived in the United States since 1958, calls action on the embargo a “political dead end.” He and Dr. Joseph Ritchie, also a private citizen, decided to go down a different road—away from politics and politicians, toward the world of religious belief and influence. The two businessmen prevailed upon Dr. Billy Graham to invite the Iraqi religious leaders to visit several sites in the United States—and later, London, England.

Vincent, a Chaldean Catholic, was with the delegation throughout the U.S. visit. Their travels—to Boston, Detroit, Atlanta, Plains (Georgia) and New York City—began inauspiciously with an hour-and-a-half grilling by U.S. immigration officials. Dr. Ritchie placed his private plane at the service of the three Iraqi churchmen.

Later, he remarked that he was most inspired by their interfaith partnership in this quest to end the sanctions. When he is asked if things are moving in a good direction, Dr. Ritchie says, “Anyone of goodwill who listens for an hour to the entire scenario wants to end the embargo, but Americans listen to soundbites. We have to deliver the message in soundbites.”


Samir Vincent should be executed for treason.
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