selling my renegade

[rogersjam]

after reading this news, i am selling my DC product and going ***.

"Some 2,200 companies, including major concerns like DaimlerChrysler, Siemens and Volvo, made illicit payments totaling $1.8 billion to Saddam Hussein's government under the U.N. oil-for food program, a report said on Thursday. "

yahoo.com

 

[eddiev9]

I read the article...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051027/ts_nm/iraq_probe_dc

...happens everywhere. Governments, Armed Forces, Corporations,...around the world in some form...usually until things get out of hand, which seems to be this case.

I don't know...selling your KJ may make a statement, but going with a Japanese import because of this doesn't seem to make a good one.

Just an opinion. O

 

[LibertyCRD]

Yeah, let's see... You are trying to make a patriotic statement, but in order to do it you're going to give your money to a Japanese company?? Hmmm... I'm not following the logic there. :-k

 

[rogersjam]

it was just a joke. i couldn't sell my jeep.

 

[Se7enLC]

after reading this news, i am selling my DC product and going ***.

"Some 2,200 companies, including major concerns like DaimlerChrysler, Siemens and Volvo, made illicit payments totaling $1.8 billion to Saddam Hussein's government under the U.N. oil-for food program, a report said on Thursday. "

yahoo.com

Also from the article:

About the Oil for Food Program:
"The program, which began in December 1996 and ended in 2003, was aimed at easing the impact of U.N. sanctions imposed in 1990 after Baghdad's troops invaded Kuwait. It allowed Iraq to sell oil to pay for food, medicine and other civilian goods."

"It was the mother of all humanitarian programs," Volcker told a news conference, parodying Saddam's threat that countries who opposed him in the 1991
Gulf War would face "the mother of all battles."

Until I hear some evidence that the payments were illegal, it sounds to me like legitimate business. Iraq sells oil to get money to buy food, iraq has oil, needs food, we have food and need oil. Ta-Dah!

About the payment DC Made
"DaimlerChrysler was said to have paid $7,134 in kickbacks on a contract with Iraq and Volvo paid $535,000. Daimler said it had dealt with the charge in its quarterly report and would not comment further. Volvo and Wier had no immediate reaction."

$7000....That's like NOTHING. DC probably throws that much away on paper cups in the waiting rooms at dealerships.

And I agree with the other poster. If you want to pick your car manufacturer based on their business practice, I would suggest staying domestic - foreign countries do not all have labor laws as strict as ours, and I would be very much surprised if their assembly line workers were treated as well as DCs

 

[eddiev9]

it was just a joke. i couldn't sell my jeep.

Man, you totally got me! Kick.gif