{"id":44,"date":"2005-04-14T15:12:35","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T20:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=44"},"modified":"2005-04-14T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T20:23:30","slug":"the-bayoil-indictments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"The Bayoil Indictments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it seems a Texas oilman (hey, isn&#8217;t there one of those in the White House, too?) and two others have been <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2005\/04\/14\/international\/middleeast\/14cnd-food.html?pagewanted=2&#038;ei=5094&#038;en=b044dee6eae6276b&#038;hp&#038;ex=1113537600&#038;partner=homepage\">indicted<\/a> in the corruption scandal surrounding the Iraqi oil-for-food program of the 1990s.  The UN, along with business interests from France and Russia, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/InternationalOrganizations\/bg1748.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">taking a lot of heat<\/a> about the very same affair from anti-internationalist right-wingers in the US.  Maybe this&#8217;ll shut them up for a bit.  Yes, fellas, follow the money and you&#8217;re bound to find some corruption no matter what country you&#8217;re in.<\/p>\n<p>These guys face up to 62 years in prison.  If they&#8217;re convicted, I think they should be made to share a cell with their alleged partner in crime, Saddam Hussein.  With limited shower privileges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it seems a Texas oilman (hey, isn&#8217;t there one of those in the White House, too?) and two others have been indicted in the corruption scandal surrounding the Iraqi oil-for-food program of the 1990s. The UN, along with business interests from France and Russia, has been taking a lot of heat about the very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=44\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bayoil Indictments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-world-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}