BREAKING: McCain Transition Chief Lobbied For Saddam Hussein
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Oct 14, 2008 11:45am
Murray Waas has a huge breaking story. This just gets better and better.
William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.
The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.
Timmons' activities occurred in the years following the first Gulf War, when Washington considered Iraq to be a rogue enemy state and a sponsor of terrorism. His dealings on behalf of the deceased Iraqi leader stand in stark contrast to the views his current employer held at the time.
John McCain strongly supported the 1991 military action against Iraq, and as recently as Sunday described Saddam Hussein as a one-time menace to the region who had "stated categorically that he would acquire weapons of mass destruction, and he would use them wherever he could."
Timmons declined to comment for this story
UPDATE: Murray has more on his blog...
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but will anyone listen?
It's impossible to make this kind of stuff up, it's so ridiculous.
They are just McPals.
McWorse is the gift that just keeps on giving!
It does explain why they dropped the Ayers crap. Glass houses and shit.
Oh boy this is gettin gooder and gooder!
"William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime."
No need to worry about that....there won't be any 'transition'.
McCain is going down in flames.
Muthee to the Inaugural Ball?
Here's Palin's "Master" Muthee "Speaking in Tongues" at the Wasilla Church recently where they thought all the cameras had been "banned": (He's baaaaccckkkkk.....)
http://rooftopscreaming.blogspot.com/2008/10/...
I'm sure Mr. Timmons is working closely with Rev. Muthee for the Inaugural Ball. I can just hear the rules now: "No gays/lesbians. No dancing where there is skin touching. All purses will be searched for Birth Control pills (they do, after all, kill human zygotes). All dresses must be below the knees. All women must check their "witchcraft" at the door, or else Rev. Muthee will "show them a way" to get rid of it.
Yes, those meetings with Rev. Muthee and Mr. Timmons must be a riot. Because I'll guarantee you, if there is a McCain/Palin win on November 4th, Rev. Muthee WILL be in on the planning of more than just the Inaugural Ball.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
guilt by association -- nobody's listening -- mccain has obama right where he wants him! palin power '08!
this message was brought to you by g. gordon liddy and the ghost of charles keating
SNL, Letterman, Leno will mourn when these comical fucks are done.
Remember the good old days when all SNL had to make fun of was Clinton's gut (the skit with him jogging all the way to the McDonalds), Monica, and his smoking pot without inhaling? Boy...
As for Leno, I think he'll lament the sh-t canning of the Republican party for more reasons than just the loss of joke fodder. He's a plutocrat who owns 84 cars and 73 motorcycles, worth over a million dollars, pals around with the Gubernator, and has a salary of $17 000 000 per year. It may be a lost cause, but on election day I'm pretty sure he's going to be pulling the lever for the guy who wants to give him another 11% TAX CUT on that 17 million, so that he doesn't have to "live in a cardboard box," like Bill O'Reilly claimed he'd be doing if Obama's tax plan was implemented. (Pulling the lever, I might add, in a section of L.A. where the voting machines are NOT rigged.)
I'd pull levers the rest of my life, if it meant that dipshit has to live in a cardboard box.
Leno is out next year, just like Bush.
You're a psychopath!
With a bald head and a mustache to boot!
Shoot anybody in the head lately?
tick....tick....tick....
BOOM!
McCain's desperation is growing. Now he's employing lobbyists to our #1 enemy: Saddam Hussein. Now let's see his village idiots make reference to Barack Obama's middle name...hahahah! One more slur which isn't going to work ever again.
I miss Saddam. Reminds me of the Clinton years when Saddam was just a sock-puppet character in the South Park movie and Satan's homosexual lover. Oh the memories!!
oboy oboy oboy
LOL. You just can't make this stuff up. But don't worry Palin will find a way to blame Obama.
Cue right-wingers heads exploding in 3...2...1...wait, what am I saying?
Cue right-wingers insisting Bill Ayers is worse than Saddam Hussein (whom they once likened to Adolf Hitler) in 3...2...1...
Heh, no, the obvious response is going to be something about McCain not starting his political career in Saddam's living room, or endorsing his book. (And also that McCain is TWO degrees of separation from Saddam, while Obama is only ONE from Ayers etc.) But it's nice to keep them on defense. It also fits in with the narrative that Republicans would sell the country out for a few bucks.
Say it ain't so John...
Dave
Viet Vet
McCain, jerk spelled backwards
I just saw this at Huffpo as well as Daily KOS and this is spreading like wildfire - probably in an attempt to stop the bleeding from CNN's exposure of the Palins as terrorist secessionists?? Americans can multi-task and recognize two devastating blows to McCain/Palin at once however.....
I hope someone's writing a book about this stuff - you couldn't make it up in your wildest of dreams.
...you can't make this stuff up!
McCrazyCain: The gift that keep on giving ... Every Ready style!
there was a lot of international pressure to lift sanctions on iraq. gw BUSH felt that pressure. it's said to be one of the reasons for the hurry( if you will) to get the attack under way in iraq. other countries were trying to get into iraq for business/commerce purposes..........like oil.
I'm loving this shit. Grandpa and his drama mama staff assistant are literally turds floating in the toilet waiting to be flushed November 5th.
But will anyone in the MSM pick up the story?
Its one most all of the blogs right now. I dont see how they can avoid it.....though they'll try like hell.
but we'll be watching.
This is not going to be a good day for McCain or Palin. McCain's ties to Gordon Liddy is breaking; the Palin's ties to a right wing extremist group (AIP) is breaking; The Specard building supply story about the Palin residence is also breaking.....
Bad news for McCain today....really bad news.
I swear I'm an incipient campaign manager ...
I've been fretting that Barack won't respond adequately to McGramps' baseless and ridiculous Ayers smears ...
Ah, but what ammo we have: Liddy, Vogler, Troopergate, Todd's house, McCain's involvement with ACORN ... there's SO much.
And now this.
I have to assume that Obama's advisers have a FULL quiver of barbs to use if needed.
It's time for Barack to destroy McSame once and for all tomorrow ... the minute McSame starts attacking, Barack has to unload. Calmly and cooly, of course.
Is it possible to speak with somebody at Barack's headquarters?
OK, Dave, quit worrying ... ;)
BID
Don't worry- be happy. Don't worry - be happy. Some how Palin/McCain will blame it on the Obama camp. I will be happy when the story breaks that Palin had her home built free by the taxpayers of AK. I wonder what they will think about that. AK you all need to wakeup and smell the roses. You all keep electing crooks. Stop sending them to Washington. We have enough already. Impeach the bitch.
since McCain's campaign is dripping with lobbyists for every dark cause there is. None of the kool-aid drinkers will care about this or any association - Keating 5, Saddam Hussein, G. Gordon Liddy, Alaskan Independence Party, etc. - since McCain has the right color of skin for their tiny little minds. Maybe, just maybe some fence-sitters that still may be out there may finally get over whatever their problem is and move to Obama. Maybe. But I doubt it.
and what's they say about KARMA?
your just not good at this. And when I say not good I mean breathtakingly awful.
i think your going to find retirement a pleasurable experience.
the King of comedic campaigns? Sure seems like it...
Looks like it was Rick Perry, Republican of Texas, who initiated ACORN and guess who we've found in a photo op taking credit for ACORN? You guess it - Johnny McSenile himself. Let's talk about ACORN, the Republican created act. Let's talk about McCain's involvement in it as well...
Senile may be more accurate than we'd be comfortable with. Did you see him rambling around the debate stage? never answering a question he was asked? I wouldn't be surprised if he had a meltdown on stage, like Perot's VP did.
And turned to my husband and said "You hear that sucking sound? That's the mcsame campaign."
He lol'd.
But that was in 1992. Too long ago to affect McCain of today! Why that would be like dragging up an associate that did something bad 30+ years ago and trying to paint Obama as being a terrorist! Not gonna happen...... oh wait
I can't believe that McCain continues to self-destruct with his horrendous decisions seemingly every day. I guess it's true that this man is mentally handicapped. I thought it was just a little touch of senile dementia but I'm ever more convinced that it's mental illness.
After all, it's not like he served on a charitable board with a former '60s radical. Sadaam was a great guy; just ask Don Rumsfeld or the elected Bush.
Seems to me that it bears keeping in mind what happened to Saddam, once he was no longer useful to those said lobbyists or their masters.
Loyalty isn't something you can buy.
This doesn't bode well for William Timmons. I wonder what ties McCain has to all of this?
Surely, we're discovering that McCain is not an honorable man but this almost sounds criminal.
It must be getting pretty damned crowded in that cave in Afghanistan. You know...the place where all the Republican embarrassments end up getting exiled?
Osama bin Laden
Pil Gramm
Carly Fiorina
Rick Davis (who is still releasing tapes to his cells)
and now
William Timmons
Well, well, looks whos palling around with terrorists.
a pal of a pal of a pal
Meh...
He's a Republican, so he'll get a pass on that. The guilt-by-association thing only applies to Democrats and their associations with left wing radicals. Not Republicans and people who are out to make money at the expense of U.S. security.
The standard, false equivalence line is that a Republican association with right wing nuts who blow up abortion clinics would be the same as a Democratic association with left wing radicals who were involved in the anti-Vietnam war movement. Thus, completely sidestepping the fact that, while Republican politicians have managed to avoid any direct contact with those people, they comprise the Republican BASE; and the fact that the kinds of terrorists they DO associate directly with (ie-the kind that would sell out the security of the country in exchange for a buck) are clean cut, and wear business suits that camouflage the extent of their subversiveness.
This comes literally minutes after McCain says he plans to confront Obama on the Ayers issue during Wednesday's debate. I mean, I may actually have to rethink this whole existence of god thing if stuff like this keeps happening.
Great line. Gotta use it when my atheist friends start to chafe.
Wasn't Sadaam Hussein an "unrepentant terrorist"(the 9-11 mastermind for you criminally ignorant fucks) too? With all of the bullshit coming out daily, Obama could call in sick and still win this debate.
yeparoo and you betcha! Say it ain't so Joe but McPappy's losing this election this week right before our very eyes.
By the end of this week, he will be totally disgraced and deemed dishonorable and un-american. And Obama hasn't had to smear him once.
Amazing how karmic payback works, isn't it?
...and worstest person on the face of the Earth?
This association with William Timmons will screw McPappy to the wall. This proves that he has intimate ties to a man who supported Bush's #1 Boogeyman - Saddam Hussein. This is the worst kind of news he could possibly be hit with now after inflaming crowds to terror across this country who came to believe that the real terrorists among us were the very ones up on stage. Now we find he has very close ties to a supporter of Saddam Hussein. Now we also find out that the Palin's are in bed with the anti-government extremist group to seceed from the united states? whoa...it doesn't get much nastier for McCain than this.
I think we'll witness a total breakdown by McPappy at tomorrow's debate. It's all closing in on him this week.
Many of us know the maxim well. Projection's only victim is ourselves.
Once McCain began his projection of terror campaign against, he became the domestic terrorist himself. Now we see why he had to make this attempt at projection: William Timmons, his interim chief.
There's no way McCain get out of this self-inflicted sleaze in one piece. He's is now considered to be a disgraced, unethical, poor-excuse of a man who couldn't find his way out of a paper bag with one way signs on it.
John McCain has become an angry, empty old man right before our very eyes and he is being sucked down the sewer by an unethical, vitriolic running mate. At this point, women in this country do not relate to Sarah Palin. She's become a pathological liar who has stomped her way to the top through corruption and violation of the laws of the state of Alaska....and she continues to lie in our faces about it when every newscaster and newspaper in this country have confirmed her "guilty"??
Phew! This is becoming an avalanche for McCain & Palin - a self-inflicted avalanche of their lies and scum coming home to roost just in time to show americans how totally inept they are to lead us....they can't even keep their own crowds under control at their rallies.
We're somehow supposed to imagine that they would be a steady hand in a storm and protect all of us? Not in my worst of nightmares would this be true.
Doesn't this show how far apart he is from the shrub? And make him look all the more mavericky?
LOLz...
you-know-what #1,054. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Nothing on McCNN yet, Wolfe is talking with Glen Beck. Hope this pig grows some big wings but I doubt it.
so, between this and The Family Bush love for all things Arab, what else do we have to know before we start kicking these people OUT of the House and Senate?
Yippie-kie-YAYYyyy, motherfucker!
Game, Set and Match!!!
I can't wait to hear the Mccain apologists argue that..."well, but Saddam wasn't a terrorist who attacked the U.S. --- like BILL AYERS!"
To which, of course, the question is asked, then why did we attack Saddam?
Once again, McCain has screwed himself firmly into a corner from which he cannot escape.
Nope, can't make this shit up and sell it.... Got a parachute on old man... Looks like you done wrecked your campaign the way you use to wreck government property back in the day..... I'd like to compare your crashing and burning presidential campaign to the Oakland Raiders football team... But the truth is, you make that sorry outfit look pretty damned organized by comparasion.....JD
For anyone who missed the Sarah API story, you can read it here at Salon. It is a long piece so you might want to print it out and read it at your leisure. I promise you after you have read it, you are going to see Palin in a whole different light, a frightening as hell light.
Which article? There's a slew of links on the main page.
"The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government."
So if the other two were guilty, how did Timmons get off?
That's just McCain being McCain.
He's a maverick.
Will Mooselini be talkin' 'bout how her runnin' mate is pallin' around with turrists? I'm guessin' No! *wink*
Smack this bullshit down
Notice how they use present tense. Ayers "IS" an unrepentant "domestic terrorist."
[1] We know how Bush's DOJ treats other "domestic terrorist" suspects. So, how come Ayers isn't incommunicado in a brig somewhere or shackled at Gitmo?
[2] IIRC, other former prime ministers with whom we've done ongoing allied foreign relations business (e.g., Israel, Ireland to cite the obvious two) were clearly ex- "terrorists."
So, McPalin, STFU.
Hiring someone for your presidential transition team who lobbied for a blood thirsty dictator who you continously denounced. Now that is maverick. lol
Why does the Grampy McSame campaign hate America?
Murray Waas, I could kiss you!
Progressive organizations were at the forefront in opposing the sanctions against Iraq for *humanitarian* reasons. The embargo against Iraq was killing Iraqi children. So, Timmons was effectively doing the right thing for the wrong reason, not to mention being paid for it. My whole point is that, regardless of the machinations of sleazy lobbyists and politicians, the *idea* of ending the sanctions was not a bad one per se. In fact, the outcome would have been a desirable one.
That thought crossed my mind at first as well, but read the whole article and it's clear that these guys were not humanitarians but taking large amounts of money from Hussein's government in turn for political favors. Heres a quote:
"But there was a financial incentive in play as well. During the same period, Vincent was hard at work obtaining contracts with Iraq to purchase and resell Iraqi oil allowed under international sanctions; Timmons would have stood to benefit financially from those contracts."
Again, my point is not that Timmons is a good guy or deserves credit. My point is that as progressives, we should not be opposed to lifting the sanctions in that or any similar case.
includes a large pool of people, including lobbyists and past of Saddam.
Compared with George W. Bush. Saddam Hussein was a SAINT!
includes a large pool of people, including lobbyists and pals of Saddam
Got excited
includes a large pool of people, including lobbyists and pals of Saddam
Got excited
A big, thick slice of 45 million? Who can blame they guy...isn't enriching yourself the only thing that matters?
They needed a friend when the Shah was chased from Iran.
I guess Hannity will feature this on his show tonight or has his fat head exploded yet
I just left my office to run an errand, and clicked over to Hannity on the radio. He was ranting about the Obama-Ayers relationship. And, apparently, Hank Williams, Jr. has a new song about McCain and Palin, with a line in the lyrics about how they DON'T have terrorist friends and connections.
Keith abd Rachel NEED to pick this up and headline their show with it, TONIGHT. Simple as that. The likes of CNN won't even touch it, not if McCain Media shills Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash have anything to do with it.
William Timmons sings....
Bei mir sits McCain
I helped Saddam Hussein
Bei mir sits McCain
And now he's screwed
Bei mir sits McCain
He'll never explain
Bei mir sits McCain
Oh yes he's screwed
He could say Ayers, Ayers
Even Obama's middle name
but every vile smear will come back
And bite McCain's campaign
Bei mir sits McCain
The GOP is insane
Bei mir sits McCain
And now he's threw.
trez :)
With all respect, I'm very disappointed in this post, Nicolle, The draconian sanctions regime imposed on Iraq were responsible for deprivation of Iraqi civilians on a massive scale and served to further entrench Saddam's hold on power. UNICEF estimates that some 500,000 children under the age of five died as a result of the sanctions. I wish McCain had spoked up stronger against the sanctions and William Timmons should be applauded for a flash of humanity. He was in good company with Mary Robinson, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and a host of others who favored a more humane approach to dealing with Iraq. To hold up Saddam Hussein as a boogie man and to suggest that Timmons was lobbying FOR Hussein rather than just AGAINST the sanctions is either lazy or dishonest. Please, please, read up on the sanctions. Every single thing I know about you, Nicolle, from your insightful posts makes my believe that if you knew the true nature of the sanctions regime in Iraq you too would have taken a principled stand against them.
Of course, it's EASY to point fingers at McCain's team and say things like "This guy aided Saddam Hussein," and "This guy helped create the current global economic crisis," but what the American people really want to know is: Who is the REAL Barack Obama??
Frankly I don't see how this man's admittedly despicable lobbying connections to Saddam Hussein in any way reflects on his ability to help John McCain's transition into the senior's home where he will shortly be staying. It is a difficult adjustment and McCain will need all the help he can get.
You mean this thread was about McCain's Whitehouse transition team? C'mon. Did he name the captain of his Presidential Starship at the same time?
WHo was it that was pallin' around with terrorists again?
just gets crazier and crazier by the day. Still, we can't rest on our laurels-- we need people to vote Obama/Biden on the 4th. Seriously, Obama could phone in his debate on Wednesday, but I hope he drives a stake into McCain's heart and finishes him off.
the name timmons rings a bell. a cia bell.
If this is real, the story should have legs. Not a word in the common press.
I'd love to believe this is not a hoax.
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The information on the previous thread is lobbying info on net, filed for Timmon;s clients and $$ amounts paid . Some of these firms are particularly interesting-especially Budweiser ,API, Freddie Mac and API,IMHO.
Palin's next attack, to debut Thursday: "Now Obama is allowing himself to be seen onstage this past Wednesday at Hofsta University with someone that is closely linked to Saddam"...
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Help us welcome...
... Johnny McSaddam!
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