Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 11:01 PM The Oil for Food scam isn't a scam really. It's neo conservatives pissed at the UN and trying to undermine its credibility and give justification to the US unilateral invasion. The "scam" is gaining credibility simply because of the echo chamber that exists with our media, not because of actual facts.
This whole situation is really paralleling the WMD thing, there never was solid evidence, it was all assertions, and shady sources, but it got repeated so much people bought into it. The former head of the program talks about the situation here:
http://67.15.90.110/article.pl?sid=04/11/17/1524256 —piesore |
