Iraq - I took Saddam's cash, admits French envoy

Another one bites the dust. Galloway, you're next.

One of France's most distinguished diplomats has confessed to an investigating judge that he accepted oil allocations from Saddam Hussein, it emerged yesterday.

Jean-Bernard Mérimée is thought to be the first senior figure to admit his role in the oil-for-food scandal, a United Nations humanitarian aid scheme hijacked by Saddam to buy influence.

That's an interesting way to put bribery.

So far, the only top figure to have acknowledged that he was offered such oil allocations was Rolf Ekeus, the former head of the UN inspection team that uncovered some of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction in the 1990s. Mr Ekeus, a famously strait-laced Swede, laughed off the offer.

You mean Saddam had WMD's? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked! Of course Both Clintons and all the Democrats are not shocked.

Here's another interesting tid bit buried in the story.

The ambassador said the French authorities had known of his every move.

I'm sure they did.
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