{"id":319,"date":"2004-08-13T08:33:02","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T12:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=319"},"modified":"2006-02-07T07:32:55","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T12:32:55","slug":"oil-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/oil-for-money","title":{"rendered":"Oil for Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great piece in the NYTimes<\/a><\/em> today about the scandal of the UN’s Iraqi oil-for-food program<\/a>. Claudia Rosett at the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> has been way<\/em> out in front on this story, so it’s good to see it get front-page treatment from the Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Because, y’know, it shows that a lot of people had a vested and venal interest in not seeing any sorta change in Iraq. Which is to say, they were making boatloads of money by supporting the regime of a brutal dictator (or a “racketeering crime family,” as Hitchens has put it).<\/p>\n

Note: One of the writers of the Times<\/em> story is getting subpoenaed in the probe of the CIA leak<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great piece in the NYTimes today about the scandal of the UN’s Iraqi oil-for-food program. Claudia Rosett at the Wall Street Journal has been way out in front on this story, so it’s good to see it get front-page treatment from the Times. Because, y’know, it shows that a lot of people had a vested … <\/p>\n

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