WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?: CNN claims to have documents which show not only did the US know about Saddam's misuse of food-for-oil cash, but even
were happy to go along with it:
The unclassified State Department documents sent to congressional committees with oversight of U.S. foreign policy divulge that the United States deemed such sales to be in the "national interest," even though they generated billions of dollars in unmonitored revenue for Saddam's regime.