bmetzler's Journal: Jimmy Carter linked to oil-for-food scam

Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N.

Move America Forward today will call upon Carter to provide a full accounting of his meetings and conversations with Samir Vincent, who yesterday pleaded guilty to participating in numerous illegal activities as part of the U.N. scandal.

"President Carter needs to tell the American people exactly what relationships he had with the individuals involved in the oil-for-food scandal," said Melanie Morgan, co-chairman of Move America Forward, which is running television ads attacking the U.N. on national cable news networks, conducting an online petition drive and soliciting contributions to spread the message of the TV spots.

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[BWJones]

Now that headline is soooooo bogus. Because former President Carter has met with some guy does not mean he is linked to the Oil-for-Food program. Besides, that group whom you referred to, Move America Forward has been known to be.....how shall we say?......a little loose with their accusations and claims.

I mean come on now. That is the same logic that would get the Republicans in hot water for their dealings with the Saudi Royal Family or even Saddam Hussein himself. After all, there are more than one

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[Cyberdyne]

Because former President Carter has met with some guy does not mean he is linked to the Oil-for-Food program.

True, merely meeting one of Hussein's oil-for-food puppets isn't much of a link to the scam - but is that all that happened? He "expressed his sympathies with the Iraqi people and railed against the "stringent" sanctions imposed against Iraq". Whether he was actually in the pay of Hussein or not, can you deny he was doing exactly what Hussein would have wanted him to?

That is the same logic that w

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

True, merely meeting one of Hussein's oil-for-food puppets isn't much of a link to the scam - but is that all that happened? He "expressed his sympathies with the Iraqi people and railed against the "stringent" sanctions imposed against Iraq". Whether he was actually in the pay of Hussein or not, can you deny he was doing exactly what Hussein would have wanted him to?

Wouldn't working to get more goods to the PEOPLE and less pay to HUSSIEN be actually working AGAINST the secret agenda behind the oil-for-fo

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[Cyberdyne]

Wouldn't working to get more goods to the PEOPLE and less pay to HUSSIEN be actually working AGAINST the secret agenda behind the oil-for-food-scam?

If he'd been doing that, yes. The evidence so far all indicates the opposite, however: he was working for/with Hussein rather than his opponents; the contact identified earlier was paid by Hussein via oil-for-"food".

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

If he'd been doing that, yes. The evidence so far all indicates the opposite, however: he was working for/with Hussein rather than his opponents; the contact identified earlier was paid by Hussein via oil-for-"food".

Not all the evidence indicates the opposite- some of Carter's own words indicate that he was working AGAINST Hussein and for his opponents. Just because he choose to meet with somebody who was paid by Hussien is only circumstantial evidence unless you have a tape recording of the meeting- jus

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