Iraqi People Suffered Under Oil-for-Food Scam

This is appalling...

...The GAO also found that Oil-for-Food let Saddam pocket a grand total of at least $10.1 billion in illegal revenues.

'The U.N., they are telling me that they don't know. I don't buy that,' Al-Talibi said. 'When it comes to the millions of Iraqi money, and they don't know? God forgive them.'

Al-Talibi said, 'God forgive them' because the United Nations was paying itself a 2.2 percent commission on every oil sale. It collected $1.4 billion to ensure that Oil-for-Food was on the up-and-up.
But according to the GAO, U.N. inspectors visually checked only 7 to 10 percent of the shipments into Iraq.

Of course, an audit wasn't needed to see Saddam was getting more powerful from Oil-for-Food.

...in 1999 the United Nations began removing all restrictions on the amount of oil Iraq could sell. By 2000, Saddam was buying fleets of Mercedes Benz automobiles and other luxury goods.

And Kerry still claims we should have gone though the UN. The people who had the ability to completely deny going into Iraq were the same people who were pocketing all this money, while at the same time giving illegal kickbacks to Saddam...

Why does anybody thing these countries with illegal deals would vote to go into Iraq with the likely possibility of these illegal transactions being found out??? Not only would these countries risk getting caught for all they did, they also would loose all the funds coming to them illegally... If nuclear weapons were seen as plain as day in the middle of Iraq using a spy satellite, France would still say there's no reason to go into Iraq...

How does Kerry expect to have EVER won over the UN with conditions like this???