On February 22, Tongsun Park became "the first person convicted by a jury in the United Nations Oil for Food
scandal," noted CBS "Primary Source" blogger Phil Hirschkorn in a February 24 blog post. Park, who "once acted as a secret backchannel between Saddam Hussein and the United Nations" was sentenced to five years in a federal prison.
But a search of CBS News in Nexis turns up no stories on Park's sentence on February 22, nor anytime since then. Anchor Katie Couric did, however, find time on February 22 to air a minute-and-a-half story by correspondent Kelly Cobiella on the custody hearing held to determine who would get to bury Anna Nicole Smith.
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ABC ranks a lonely third la
March 2, 2007 - 16:39 ET by JDWCouric ranks a lonely third last week in the Nielsens. Hide the facts winner for evening news
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I heard about this on Fox, ot
March 2, 2007 - 18:27 ET by bigtimerI heard about this on Fox, and that was minimal, other than that silence from the media.
One of, if not the biggest scandal in our world history, the UN involvement is so over-shadowed by menial matters in the msm that it has made me sick from the beginning.
Fox is the only one who has done a half-way decent job on the scandal, now it seems as if it is just an every day occurrence, no big deal...when all this ties in to the war, the financing in some part to the terrorists, corruption with the dictators, rape, murder... on and on it goes, and to think we have our tax money going to this organization, and the tight lips from the media is deplorable.
53% of companies involved wit
March 2, 2007 - 20:36 ET by M J B53% of companies involved with the oil for food project are USA companies.
What is your point?
March 2, 2007 - 20:58 ET by 1sttofightWhat is your point?
mjb,Humm, what ! we own Franc
March 2, 2007 - 21:00 ET by upcountrywatermjb,
Humm, what ! we own France now (or then)? I didn't know that !!!
LINKS !! WHERE ARE THOSE STINKING LINKS?
www.thenation.com/doc/2004120
March 2, 2007 - 22:54 ET by M J Bwww.thenation.com/doc/20041206/gordon
www.slate.com/id/2111195/
www.alternet.org/story/27792/
Try again. Did you READ thes
March 2, 2007 - 23:04 ET by gfrrmanTry again. Did you READ these articles at all?
Let's Make Up
March 2, 2007 - 22:14 ET by acumen"53% of companies involved with the oil for food project are USA companies."
Well as long as we are just making stuff up; Yes and all of those companies are attached to the Heinz-Kerry Corporation.
The other 47% are owned by Di
March 2, 2007 - 22:25 ET by Clear thinkerThe other 47% are owned by Disney in Japan.
This is just stupid, so I added to the folley, sorry folks.
The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.
www.globalresearch.ca/article
March 2, 2007 - 23:38 ET by M J Bwww.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD505BHTML
M J B, something is wrong wit
March 2, 2007 - 23:49 ET by gfrrmanM J B, something is wrong with the link..ie: " NOT FOUND"
Google Global research &
March 3, 2007 - 00:48 ET by M J BGoogle Global research & search the archives; I am not computer literate enough to copy the link.
I think you will find that there are few innocent parties regardless of your politics.
When there is money to be made greed knows no boundries.
Even with the corruption & kickbacks oil for food did what it was supposed to do that is feed the Iraqis.
I'm not suggesting that there
March 3, 2007 - 01:27 ET by gfrrmanI'm not suggesting that there are innocent parties, but what you inclined. It wasn't in those articles(57% no matter how it was added up was not US). And you are naive to think that the Iraqi's were fed. Saddam Hussein just built more palaces for himself and his sons and murdered more people so there would be LESS to have to take care of. He gave not a rats rear end for his own people....you need to check out some of the videos...it's just sick!!!
non-reporting scandal
March 2, 2007 - 22:22 ET by acumenI can understand why this would be a total non-story to the mediacrats. After all, this repugnant scandal that France, Russia, China and other "interested parties" were involved in was the primary reason the sanctions against Saddam didn't work and we were compelled to return to Iraq to get rid of the sadistic bum. No, bringing this very relevant story back up just wouldn't serve the mediacrats purposes in '08. What liberal media bias?
Good catch Ken......
The sanctions did work.The re
March 3, 2007 - 01:15 ET by M J BThe sanctions did work.
The reason to invade Iraq was to eliminate WMD. When no weapons were found the cry became to rid Iraq of terrorists. When no terrorists were found the cry became to "free" the Iraqis!
BTW the Pentagon is the source I am using for information.
And the Easter Bunny is Real
March 3, 2007 - 10:29 ET by acumen"The sanctions did work."
Yes, they worked out real well for Tongsun Park, Koffi's son, Saddam and his boys and a host of other rip-off artists. That is, until the coalition had to return to Iraq, get rid of the corruption and found the incriminating documents that showed the UN sanctioned oil-for-food program was a scam.
Why do you hate the Iraqi people so much? Why don't you want them to succeed in having a chance at freedom? If you disagree with these assertions, then why do you keep harping on the past instead of supporting the Iraqi's fight for freedom? Is bashing Bush more important to you than supporting the Iraqis? And the last question and probably most important - why am I wasting my time trying to deprogram your leftist brainwashing?
BTW - More aptly put, the Pentagon is the source for the selective information you are using. If you provided all of the Pentagon information you would disprove your own argument.