Consider this picture (hat tip: David’s Medienkritik). The caption reads “We get to the point”. It’s from an ad for a major German cable news network, N24. Note that the soldier is holding the nozzle of a gas pump in one hand and an automatic weapon in the other.
Now consider this tidbit of information from Paul Volcker’s investigation into the U. N. Oil-for-Food scandal:
According to the U.N.-ordered inquiry led by Paul Volcker, these are the top 10 countries that purchased oil from Iraq (news – web sites) under the oil-for-food program from 1996 until 2003:
- Russia $19.259 billion
- France $4.394 billion
- Switzerland $3.480 billion
- Britain $3.380 billion
- Turkey $3.343 billion
- Italy $2.718 billion
- China $2.625 billion
- Liechtenstein $2.468 billion
- Spain $1.644 billion
- Malaysia $1.485 billion
The United States is listed in 26th place at $482.826 million.
