Exposing and ending the corruption of Oil for Food justifies the Iraq action, all by itself IMO.
I don't think so....not when 8 billion out of the 10 billion that Saddam collected came from Jordan and turkey, the 2 countries that the usa backed and turned a blind eye to...
guess we will have to agree to disagree...
The CIA's Iraq Study Group has estimated that the illicit funds entering Iraq despite the sanctions placed against it totaled $10.9 billion, with $8 billion coming from smuggling outside the oil-for-food program. But that larger amount has received less scrutiny, while allegations of mismanagement and corruption in the oil-for-food program are the subject of investigations by the Justice Department, five congressional committees and an independent panel led by Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve Board chairman.
Volcker has promised that this aspect of Hussein's exploitation of U.N. sanctions will be examined in his final report in June, and in Washington it has drawn the particular attention of Sen. Carl M. Levin of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, which is conducting its own inquiry into the program.
In an interview, Levin said he had no quarrel with Annan's comment. "There is no question that the bulk of the illicit oil revenues came from the open sale of Iraqi oil to Jordan and to Turkey, and that that was a way of going around the oil-for-food program," he said. "We were fully aware of the bypass and looked the other way." While he backed the continuing investigation of the U.N.'s management of the oil-for-food program, he said: "We have to look in the mirror here and recognize that the direct sales that we consented to and even facilitated were the major part of the illicit revenue."
U.S. pegged for leaky Iraq oil sanctions | The San Diego Union-Tribune