Month: April 2004

Even as Kofi Annan and cronies were pocketing millions in Iraqi oil dollars, TotalFinaElf was doing the same.

And remember, Jean Chretien’s daughter is married to a major shareholder in TotalFinaElf.

Wow, I haven’t posted in over a week. I guess things in Iraq have been too depressing to comment on; visit some of the sites to your left for all you could wish of that situation.

Just had to quote Colby Cosh on Svend Robinson, though:

Lord knows I’ve “snapped” and done some ill-advised things myself, but they don’t happen to include grand larceny. My basic attitude, and I believe the only attitude that is ultimately consonant with decent social order, is that felonies are not hard to avoid. A lot of people are mystified or outraged by this proposition.

While I’ve got to give him credit for owning up — finally, honesty in a politician &mdash his record of supporting tyrants (Castro), terrorists (Arafat) and totalitarianism at home (hate-crimes legislation) is not one with which I’m terribly impressed.

A preliminary report about mass graves in Iraq is out (Hat tip: USS Clueless):

The United Nations, the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) all estimate that Saddam Hussein’s regime murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people. “Human Rights Watch estimates that as many as 290,000 Iraqis have been ‘disappeared’ by the Iraqi government over the past two decades,” said the group in a statement in May. “Many of these ‘disappeared’ are those whose remains are now being unearthed in mass graves all over Iraq.”

If these numbers prove accurate, they represent a crime against humanity surpassed only by the Rwandan genocide of 1994, Pol Pot’s Cambodian killing fields in the 1970s, and the Nazi Holocaust of World War II.

If you opposed the Iraq war, this is what you supported.