I guess we can add Bill Safire to the short list of reporters willing to to report on the oil for blood scandal; along with Claudia Rosett.

This was the biggest cash cow in the history of the world," says one of the insiders familiar with the $10 billion U.N. oil-for-food scandal. "Everybody — traders, contractors, banks, inspectors — was milking it. It was supposed to buy food with the money from oil that the U.N. allowed Saddam to sell, but less than half went for that. Perfume, limos, a shipment of 1,500 Ping-Pong tables, for God's sake."

Too bad the rest of his slimy paper hasn't jumped on the story. Go there, it's a good read because he approaches it from a more human angle.