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Well, there's finally been some real action in the "Oil-for-Food" scandal the right has been screaming about for ages:

April 14, 2005

Texas businessman, as well as a British and a Bulgarian citizen, have been indicted in New York for reportedly paying millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq as part of the United Nations oil-for-food program.

The Texan, David B. Chalmers, a principal of Bay Oil (U.S.A.) Inc., and an associate of the oil trading company, Ludmil Dionissiev, a Bulgarian and permanent American resident, were arrested this morning at their homes in Houston.

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, David N. Kelley, said at a news briefing this morning in Manhattan that he would seek the extradition from England of a third defendant, John Irving, another associate of Bay Oil.

Mr. Kelley said Mr. Chalmers and the other defendants played "a pivotal role" in efforts to fix the price of oil that was traded and sold under the oil-for-food program and "facilitated the payment of illegal surchages" on the oil to the Hussein government.

At last we'll see some retribution against the leftist-Santanic UN-lovers that have been making a mockery of justice--not to mention U.S. security.

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Hey look, www.opensecrets.org has the political donations made by these UN-crony, world-government-loving, traitorous bastards--who are from, uh, Texas:

CHALMERS, DAVID B HOUSTON,TXÊ77024 8/25/1992 $1,000 Texas Republican Congressional Cmte

CHALMERS, DAVID B HOUSTON,TX 77002 CORAL OIL AND GAS INC 6/2/1995 $1,000 Gramm, Phil

CHALMERS, DAVID HOUSTON,TX 77019 BAY OIL USA 6/22/2000 $1,000 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte

CHALMERS, DAVID B AUSTIN,TX 78745 10/3/2002 $300 National Republican Congressional Cmte

DIONISSIEV, LUDMIL HOUSTON,TX 77024 CORAL OIL & GAS 9/29/1995 $1,000 National Republican Senatorial Cmte

DIONISSIEV, LUDMIL HOUSTON,TX 77024 CORAL OIL & GAS 9/23/1996 $800 National Republican Senatorial Cmte

DIONISSIEV, LUDMIL HOUSTON,TX 77024 CORAL OIL & GAS 10/29/1996 $250 National Republican Senatorial Cmte

DIONISSIEV, LUDMIL MR HOUSTON,TX 77024 CORAL OIL & GAS 10/27/1995 $300 National Republican Senatorial Cmte

DIONISSIEV, LUDMIL MR HOUSTON,TX 77024 CORAL OIL & GAS 8/9/1996 $200 National Republican Senatorial Cmte

DIONISSIEV, LUDMIL HOUSTON,TX 77024 CORAL OIL & GAS 9/12/1994 $2,000 National Republican Senatorial Cmte

Um...so that's, uh, $5850 to Republicans and $1000 to Democrats.

My god! They gave $1000 to Democrats! SEE???!!!!??!!!!