You are correct. The Oil for Food Program continued on until after our invasion of Iraq in March 2003. In May 2003, "the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain jointly put forward a draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for the lifting of economic sanctions against Iraq and the phasing out of the oil-for-food program. France and Russia opposed the move, arguing that sanctions should be lifted and oil for food ended only after Iraq has been declared free of weapons of mass destruction by U.N. inspectors and the United Nations has been given a lead role in shaping the future of Iraq." For obvious reasons, the UN, France and Russia wanted to continue the program for as long as they could.
End the Oil-for-Food Program
Responding to your post that was made between your prior and my just prior ...
Thanks for the acknowledgement. In a world where what you thought happeneed would have happened -- that pratical honest plain common sense would have shut down the Oil-for-Food after 9/11, we wouldn't be were we are now, having to jaw-bone down that beast of inanity of a report from the blue ribbon panel.