Oil for Memories How the U.N. can begin paying its debt to Iraq's people. BY CLAUDIA ROSETT Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:01 a.m. Having helped sustain and humor the tyranny and fraud of Saddam Hussein for years via the massively corrupt Oil-for-Food program, the United Nations has for the past year been seeking a new role for itself in Iraq. Presiding over the legitimation of a new Iraqi government, which seems to be the current grand ambition, is not a good place for the U.N. to start. At the very least, a project of such complexity, requiring the highest possible...