LATE ADD TO THIS POST; Claudia Rosett appearing on Brit Hume this PM stated that the total Oil for Food take could be as high as $40 billion. It was she who singlehandedly kept the Oil for Terror program front and center while the big media slept, has another broadside today

We need some better explanation of how the U.N., charged with overseeing the $100 billion-plus Oil-for-Food program, allowed Saddam to filch at least $10 billion, peddle influence possibly with the U.N. itself, set up front companies, procure clandestine arms, fund the regime's murderous security services, and so on. It would also be valuable to have some clear idea of how the U.N. proposes to reform its own deeply entrenched patterns of privilege and secrecy, to prevent its future collusion in such abuses,

We all owe a debt of gratitude both to her and the WSJ for keeping on this til the sloths and co-conspiritors in the media finally reported it. These thieves will take over Iraq if Kerry wins.