It's no secret that the Iraq sanctions were not popular
with many in the UN. And the Oil for Food program was really an attempt to circumvent US insistance on Iraqi sanctions; even while many in the world thought that only ordinary Iraqi people were suffering in Iraq.....not Saddam.
Hence a CULTURE OF CIRCUMVENTION developed, wherein anything that could be done "under the table" to help "the people" of Iraq was permissible...
This "secret program" of course begged to be exploited by those involved....particularly the "humanitarians" at the UN.....
That is likely what really happen with Oil for Food....not barefaced greed, but rather a wish to end the Iraq sanctions; without the US catching on to the real motives of those involved....
