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  • Bad smell overruns U.N.

    11/17/2004 10:42:01 PM PST · by kattracks · 48 replies · 1,298+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | 11/18/04 | Boston Herald editorial staff
    The depth of the corruption of the United Nations' oil for food program is beyond stunning. It's sickening.      Saddam Hussein manipulated the humanitarian program to enrich his regime, fund the Iraqi military and support terrorism. And he did so with the willing participation of the ``world community'' President Bush [related, bio] is being inveighed upon to ``rejoin.''      Congressional hearings this week on the ongoing investigation revealed that Saddam reaped some $21.3 billion, more than double previous estimates, through a sophisticated smuggling and oil-sale kickback scheme involving foreign government officials, corporations and journalists.       ``The humanitarian program was corrupted and exploited...