[Just mythoughts]

"The scandal has been brewing for years. The first I learned of it was in a New York Times Op-Ed article last April by the journalist Claudia Rosett charging that the U.N.'s secretive oversight of more than $100 billion in Iraqi oil exports and supposed humanitarian imports was "an invitation to kickbacks, political back-scratching and smuggling done under cover of relief operations."




This guy has lost his credibility. He needs to read something else if he wants to stay informed.

That "OIL for FOOD program has been ripping of the people of Iraq for years, and the Clintons and the madwomam Albright knew what was going on.

[Bonaparte]

Now that Saddam is history and the program is no longer in place, the NYT can report on the oil-for-food scam and pretend that it's somehow breaking news. Safire's claim that he only learned of it a year ago is just not believable. He's not a simpleton and he doesn't live in a vault.