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Ep. 67: Saddam Hussein's Demise

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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Saddam Hussein's Oil for Food Program

Saddam would defy the terms of that ceasefire. That then meant that the United States had to support, and through the UN, what's known as these sanctions. And even there we learned after 2003 that Saddam schemed money from that program in a bank in Paris. He would purchase spoiled baby food, spoiled food,. He gave them to his population, and then kind of pocket the results.

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