| The U.N. Oil-For-Food program in Iraq prevented Hussein from developing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. |
| Representative Henry Waxman [is] demanding that the Governmental Reform Committee investigate the real oil-for-food scandal: what happened to the more than $8 billion unspent from the oil-for-food program that the United States insisted be handed over to the "Iraq Development Fund," overseen by US occupation authority head Paul Bremer. The rest of the Security Council reluctantly agreed to this payment, but only on condition that the fund be monitored by international auditors. The auditors were never allowed to do their work, and it is now suspected that most of that money went to Halliburton on no-bid contracts. Now there are grounds for some resignations.
Source: "The Right's Assault on Kofi Annan" by Ian Williams - The Nation 12/22/04 |
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