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George Galloway on BBC - Rumsfeld's sweeteners

sickly_sweet | 19.06.2004 23:39 | Anti-militarism | World

George Galloway on Radio 4 today tells about Rumsfeld, when not in Government, trying to get contracts from the Iraqi regime for orders of his artificial sweetener.

George Galloway on Radio 4 today tells about Rumsfeld, when not in Government, trying to get contracts from the Iraqi regime for orders of his artificial sweetener. The story involves an amusing image of Rumsfeld touting his wares in a sack.

A google search suggests this was aspartarme:
Rumsfeld
and
Rumsfeld and aspartame

from Loose Ends, Radio 4 20-06-04

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missing links

19.06.2004 23:44

my formatting was astray - here are the links:
rumsfeld from wikipedia (which is down at the mo, so other version):
 http://www.campusprogram.com/reference/en/wikipedia/d/do/donald_rumsfeld.html
rumsfeld's connection to aspartame:
 http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/05/07/aspartame_gate_when_donald_rumsfeld_was_ceo_of_searle.htm

ickly_sweet


Monsanto

20.06.2004 15:06

Great story!

the sweetner is in NutraSweet, the comapny is owned by Monsanto, and some believe it was the cause of Gulf War Syndrome!!

Great links to, did a google myself, the whole story seems fascinating!

how far does it go?

rabbit hole