U.S. Complicity in Oil-For-Food

For all the rightwingers who used questions about the oil-for-food program to undermine Kofi Annan and disparage the U.N., a question:

Where is the outrage about the complicity of the U.S.?  CNN reports, and this won't be the last we've heard.  Not only that, but it was not just some bureaucratic oversight but instead a tool of foreign policy.  That's right, at the same time the Bush Administration was dismissing the U.N. as corrupt and inefficient, they were manipulating the program in order to shore up support among Iraq's neighbors.

Let's bottom line it: The Bush Administration helped finance Saddam Hussein.  Well, isn't that rich.

Addendum: Yes, this occurred under Clinton's watch, too.  We can't be happy about that.  But he wasn't the one guilty of gross hypocrisy on this issue by using it to undermine the authority of the U.N.  Not to mention the whole invasion thing.

Comments

[Patrick]

This actually surfaced in the news several times in the late 90s and early 00s: CNN should check their archives.

There were also a number of American traders who operated in the program.

I guess the answer is IOKIYAR, but I imagine that the right-wing talk jocks will be all over the Clinton admin today for it.