FRANCE AND RUSSIA

IRAQI WAR

Now we know why France and Russia didn't want to go to war with Iraq, the were paying Iraq kickbacks for the oil for food program. They didnt' want it to be known that they were funding Saddam's military.

Even some individual companies here in the US were paying a surcharge to Iraq:

The report is filled with records of transactions kept by Iraqi officials who demanded special surcharges. DaimlerChrysler is listed as paying $7,000 for a $70,000 contract, while Volvo Construction Equipment in Brussels paid $317,000 in extra fees for a $6.4 million contract.

Russia benefited the most with 1/3 of the oil from the "oil for food" program going to Russian companies.