Know how the Right likes to blast Kofi Annan for mismanagement and corruption in the Oil for Food program?
In fact, the Senate report found that US oil purchases accounted for 52% of the kickbacks paid to the regime in return for sales of cheap oil – more than the rest of the world put together.
“The United States was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated UN sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained from circumventing UN sanctions,” the report said. “On occasion, the United States actually facilitated the illicit oil sales.
(Source:US ‘backed illegal Iraqi oil deals’ by Julian Borger and Jamie Wilson, The Guardian)
The outrage towards those in the US reponsible will be deafening, I’m sure.
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