■"The Man Who Bought The Oil From Iraq: Inquiry Into U.N. Program Puts Focus on Texas Deal Maker," by Simon Romero, New York Times, 19 October 2004, p. C1.
Great article about the "most hated oilman in Texas," Oscar S. Wyatt and how he bought oil on the sly (with bribes to Saddam, of course) throughout the oil-for-food UN program of the 1990s—you know, the one the UN later estimated helped kill 50k kids under the age of 5 each year in Iraq. Old Mr. Wyatt is one of TM Lutas' "implicit villains" to the core. We know more about him than the French and Russian companies who paid the vast bulk of the $200 million plus in bribes over the years, primarily because his company is publicly listed (see how important such rule sets are!).
Wyatt is too rich for words. When confronted with the evidence that Saddam gassed his own people, he replied: "We don't need to go out of our way to interfere in a domestic problem. Have they gassed any Americans?"
No sir, if the abusive husband next door kills one of his own kids, that's strictly his business.
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