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The wisest move by the U.N., the U.S., or any other authority with full access to these records, would be to make them fully public — thus recruiting help from observers worldwide, not least the media, in digging through the hazardous waste left by Oil-for-Food.


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Yeah, like that's going to happen when many at the UN had their fat fingers in the cookie jar themselves.

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One was the U.N. decision to allow Saddam to choose his own buyers of oil and suppliers of goods — an arrangement that Annan himself helped set up during negotiations in Baghdad in the mid-1990s, shortly before he was promoted to Secretary-General.

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Somebody should definitely follow the money on that one. I'd be willing to bet that ol' Koffi made millions on that deal.

[Bigg Red]

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