[valleygal]

Thanks for translating. You said what I had planned to say, anyway.

Buying oil isn't quite the same as supplying equipment that will help them militarily. Except, that sadly, in the end, Saddam kept the Oil for Food money and didn't feed his people.

He chose unwisely.

[DED]

You have it exactly right about Saddam keeping the oil money (he actually put it into his military).
Yet, when faced with 5,000 children each month dying as a result, the media blames the US for the embargo.
Try a search for terms 5000, children, Iraq, month, and dying on Google, and you will get dozens of hits spouting the same liberal line of garbage. Not one points out that the money is there and the deaths are Hussein's responsibility.