Guess who is REALLY responsible for the Oil for Terror robbery? The good old U.S.A., this according to that kooky Kofi Anan in the Financial Times today. BLACKFIVE an outstanding site, if you haven't been there, has some detail. What I found interesting is that this icon of the Left Establishment would get a free ride if it weren't for the Right Wing Press and the web. Sample slobbering:

"When you read the reports, it looks as if the Saddam regime had nothing to do with it: [that] it was all the UN." But Mr Annan said there was "no way" the UN could have stopped illegal oil smuggling, which accounted for $5.7bn (€4.8bn, £3.2bn) of an estimated $10.1bn in illegal revenues acquired by the Iraq regime.

"We had no mandate to stop oil smuggling," Mr Annan said. "There was a maritime taskforce that was supposed to do that. They were driving the trucks through northern Iraq to Turkey. The US and the British had planes in the air. We were not there. Why is all this being dumped on the UN?"

It's a plot by George Bush and Tony Blair; you are being picked on because you are black; your son is being picked on because he is black; and the UN is a Holy Site. BTW be sure you read the letter from that colonel who escorted a body home that is on Blackfive too. Because Blackfive uses that pain in the ass MoveableType program to publish his site in tiny columns, the best way to read it is to transfer it to your word processor. BLACKFIVE also links to this site which is keeping a day to day record of this oil for food. Take a look, it seems like he's up to speed.