[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.

[Judith Anne]

If I, a little old lady in the rural Ozarks of Missouri, knew over a year ago that something was mighty hinky about that scurrilious oil-for-food program, Safire the cosmopolitan MUST have had a clue.

[Just mythoughts]

"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.:


I agree that he is not a simpleton, but obviously he thinks the readers of his words are.