LA Times: “All Players Gained From ‘Oil-for-Food'” Peter Daou February 3, 2005 The Los Angeles Times takes an in-depth look at the Oil-for-Food program: "The 15 members of the U.N. Security Council, including the United States, were at best complacent and at times complicit in Hussein's exploitation of the program, diplomats and U.N. officials say."
Mercury Rising Peter Daou February 3, 2005 "Phoenix Woman" of Mercury Rising, on the new CNN report: "CNN: Bush Allowed Saddam To Smuggle Oil - As CNN notes, this makes the alleged UN Oil-for-Food Scandal look positively insignificant in comparison."
Boffoblog on the CNN report Peter Daou February 3, 2005 "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.... 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." Read more...
CNN Obtains New Documents on Iraq oil Smuggling Peter Daou February 2, 2005 From CNN: "Documents obtained by CNN reveal the United States knew about, and even condoned, embargo-breaking oil sales by Saddam Hussein's regime, and did so to shore up alliances with Iraq's neighbors."
