As I concluded yesterday, Bush is attempting to starve the Iraqi people into submission by halting UN food aid at the border which Iraqi oil has already paid for. If this isn’t terrorism I don’t know what is. This should prove that the Oil for Food program is simply a way to transfer Iraq’s oil wealth out of the country and that the US government uses the control of food and water as a weapon against the Iraqi people. Meanwhile, the slavish Corpro-American media is ‘staying on target’ and keeping the pro-invasion Pentagon propaganda floodgates open. You are all witnesses to a crimescene unfolding.
From the BBC: Coalition accused over aid to Iraq:
At a news conference in Baghdad, the Iraqi Trade Minister, Muhammad Mahdi Saleh, said Iraq had already paid billions of dollars for these supplies, which were bought under the UN’s oil-for-food programme.
The UN suspended the programme upon which millions of Iraqis depend for food as a US-led war against Baghdad became imminent last week.
Mr Mahdi Saleh said London and Washington had pushed for the programme to be blocked and accused Mr Annan of bowing to their will. …
On Tuesday, the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, announced it had awarded a Seattle-based company the contract to operate the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr.
USAID said the company – Stevedoring Services of America – would be in charge of managing the delivery of humanitarian aid and reconstruction materials to Iraq.
This is the second of eight civilian contracts that USAID expects to award for the reconstruction of Iraq.
The process has been criticised by some because of apparent secrecy and because no non-US companies were invited to tender.
Fucking disgusting.
DISGUSTING.
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
This is the Big Swindle, for sure.