US furious over denials ( Australian wheat /Saddam bribe scandal)

[WearyOne2]

US furious over denials

"THE chairman of a powerful US Senate committee is demanding Australian ambassador to Washington Dennis Richardson explain the Howard Government's role in the Iraqi wheat affair, saying he is "deeply troubled" by an apparent attempt to cover up the scandal.

Republican senator Norm Coleman, who is chairing the Senate's inquiry into "illegal, under-the-table" payments to Saddam Hussein's regime, also wrote to former Washington ambassador Michael Thawley, criticising him for making "emphatic denials" about AWB's role.
In a letter to Mr Richardson dated January 31, Senator Coleman said he wanted to discuss Mr Thawley's disturbing behaviour during a meeting in Washington in October 2004, where the then ambassador "unequivocally dismissed" claims AWB was involved in making illicit payments to the Saddam government.

Senator Coleman said evidence presented to the Cole inquiry in Sydney suggested that, on the contrary, officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade may have been "aware of and complicit in the payments of the illegal kickbacks". "

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18010940-2,00.html

[marmar]

1. If you can't trust a member of the "Coalition of the Willing" ....

who can you trust? :shrug:

:sarcasm:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. I have this feeling...

That somehow, they will find a way to Blame The French.

[johnfunk]

3. Norm Coleman is a blustering Bozo

Remember how George Galloway made a fool of Coleman during the Minnesota Moron's hearings on the so-called "oil for food" nonsense?

[WearyOne2]

5. it's good..conservatives at each other's throats..it's how they will end

[WearyOne2]

6. it's good..conservatives at each other's throats..it's how they will end

[Don Claybrook]

4. suggested? may have been?

Does this idiot just like to pick on foreigners because he thinks he can get by with it?