Condoleeza/Chevron involvement.

[kuzadd]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/08/bus...s/08chevron.php

Chevron seen settling case on Iraq oil

Chevron, the second-largest American oil company, is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known kickbacks were being paid to Saddam Hussein on oil it bought from Iraq as part of a defunct United Nations program, according to investigators.

The admission is part of a settlement being negotiated with United States prosecutors and includes fines totaling $25 million to $30 million, according to the investigators, who declined to be identified because the settlement was not yet public.

The penalty, which is still being negotiated, would be the largest so far in the United States in connection with investigations of companies involved in the oil-for-food scandal.

and at the time who was a board member???

According to the Volcker report, surcharges on Iraqi oil exports were introduced in August 2000 by the Iraqi state oil company, the State Oil Marketing Organization.

At the time, Condoleezza Rice, now secretary of state, was a member of Chevron's board and led its public policy committee, which oversaw areas of potential political concerns for the company.

yet laughingly Condoleeza said this.......

In January 2005, during Senate confirmation hearings to be the nation’s next Secretary of State, Ms. Rice expressed her outrage at revelations that Saddam had used some of the billions he skimmed from the Oil-for-Food program to purchase dual use equipment that could have been used to produce WMD.

“I think it is a scandal what happened with Oil-for-Food” She told the senators. “We’ve got to get to the bottom of what happened here…and those who were responsible, I think, should be held accountable.”

she thinks 'it's a scandal'

yah , sure.( wink, wink)

soooo, wondering, will she be held accountable.

not likely.

further quoting from another article available here

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17734.htm

But Rice’s possible complicity in the Oil-for-Food scandal doesn’t stop there. At the beginning of 2001, she became President Bush’s National Security Advisor. One of her major preoccupations, of course, was Saddam Hussein. As she told the Senate committee in 2005, the United States relied on Oil-for-Food “to keep Saddam Hussein contained and checked. And clearly we weren’t doing that. The sanctions were breaking down. He was playing the international community like a violin.”

Who arguably better knew the music and some of the key players then Condoleezza Rice, fresh from the Chevron board?

One wonders what thoughts crossed her mind when she read—as she must have—reports by U.S. intelligence agencies detailing how sanctions against Iraq were being thwarted by the major oil companies..

Indeed, according to the Volcker Committee, Saddam’s manipulations had been reported to members of the 661 Committee which oversaw the U.N. Sanctions. The most powerful member of that Committee, of course, was the United States.

What did Condoleezza know about all this and when did she know it? It’s doubtful we’ll ever find out from Condi directly. She has an impressive record of either somehow ignoring, forgetting or gliding by when confronted with unpleasant issues.

lies, and more lies.

oh what a tangled web we weave.

so many questions, so many machinations, manipulations, no longer does any of this surprise me.

editted to fix up quotations.

[bush_cheney2004]

lies, and more lies.

oh what a tangled web we weave.

so many questions, so many machinations, manipulations, no longer does any of this surprise me.

You got nothin' on Condi...but check Canada's Arthur Millholland of Oilexco....LOL!

http://www.acepilots.com/unscam/archives/000775.html

[kuzadd]

Hey BC, US oil companies, were right in there also, along with many others, why deny it?

Or do you prefer the self-righteous indignation to the facts?

Just asking?

wrt: Condi: she never knows anything,(lol) not about oil for food, not about 9/11, it's amazing she got so far in life, or not!

[bush_cheney2004]

Hey BC, US oil companies, were right in there also, along with many others, why deny it?

Or do you prefer the self-righteous indignation to the facts?

Just asking?

wrt: Condi: she never knows anything,(lol) not about oil for food, not about 9/11, it's amazing she got so far in life, or not!

Why yes, she has gotten far in life. Plays a mean piano too. But you still got nuthin'!

Have some Pollyanna pie!

[kuzadd]

Hey BC, US oil companies, were right in there also, along with many others, why deny it?

Or do you prefer the self-righteous indignation to the facts?

Just asking?

wrt: Condi: she never knows anything,(lol) not about oil for food, not about 9/11, it's amazing she got so far in life, or not!

Why yes, she has gotten far in life. Plays a mean piano too. But you still got nuthin'!

Have some Pollyanna pie!

oh, did you misunderstand my facetiousness?

I don't need any pollyanna pie, thanks, perhaps for yourself?

Actually espousing an 'innocent' Condoleeza, come on BC, you of all people , should know better then that.

[bush_cheney2004]

oh, did you misunderstand my facetiousness?

I don't need any pollyanna pie, thanks, perhaps for yourself?

Actually espousing an 'innocent' Condoleeza, come on BC, you of all people , should know better then that.

Innocent? Your word, not mine. Try "not guilty". Huge difference.

Did you "impute"?