I found your editorial on the United Nations Oil-for-Food program to be appalling. Yes there were probably failures in the program, and yes Saddam Hussein’s henchmen probably got rich off of the program.
But the link between the Oil-for-Food program and the insurgents is tenuous at best, if not solely in the head of U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.).
How could any of the countries involved in the Oil-for-Food program know that the United States would attack Iraq unprovoked? If we had not gone in on extremely shaky pretexts, our soldiers would not be under fire from insurgents.
When Hyde is finally done looking for reasons why many of our allies, including those on the UN Security Council, refused to participate in a war based on bad intelligence, perhaps he’ll work on figuring out who the war profiteers are in our country. Who is making money now based on our decision to go to war in Iraq?
Here’s an intriguing question: What corporate interests dictated we go to war on a country that wasn’t a threat to us?
