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December 01, 2003
Honor Among Thieves
There isn't any. Just ask Saddam.
For two years before the American invasion of Iraq, Mr. Hussein's sons, generals and front companies were engaged in lengthy negotiations with North Korea, according to computer files discovered by international inspectors and the accounts of Bush administration officials.
Saddam even made a $10 million downpayment, for which he got.....nothing.
The trail that investigators have uncovered, partly from reading computer hard drives found in Baghdad and partly from interviews with captured members of Mr. Hussein's inner circle, shows that a month before the American invasion, Iraqi officials traveled to Syria to demand that North Korea refund $1.9 million because it had failed to meet deadlines for delivering its first shipment of goods.
North Korea deflected the request, telling Mr. Hussein's representatives, in the words of one investigator, that "things were too hot" to begin delivering missile technology through Syria.
Don't you just know ol' Kim was LHAO. What's Saddam gonna do, sue him?
Heh.
Posted by Rita at December 1, 2003 07:31 AM
Comments
Couldn't access it without signing up, but
I will take your word for it.
So Kim Men Tah Li Il got one over on Ol Saddam, and we go and take him out so he doesn't have to
pay Saddam back, or his Odious and Queasy sons
either.
heh heh heh heh.
Posted by: Cricket at December 1, 2003 08:07 AM
I wonder if we can get the ten mil back. We did the pompadour a favor, doncha know. I wonder if Bush used that as leverage.
Posted by: LFD at December 1, 2003 10:47 AM
So we found the WMD's. In warehouses in Pyongyang.
Posted by: Steve H. at December 1, 2003 11:53 AM
Eau De & Offay are history, remember Cricket?
LFD, I was wondering along those lines myself.
Apparently so Steve....though I suspect we're fixin' to find a whole bunch more in Syria.
Posted by: Rita at December 2, 2003 08:04 AM