"Phoenix Woman" of Mercury Rising, on the new CNN report: "CNN: Bush Allowed Saddam To Smuggle Oil - As CNN notes, this makes the alleged UN Oil-for-Food Scandal look positively insignificant in comparison."
"For all the rightwingers who used questions about the oil-for-food program to undermine Kofi Annan and disparage the U.N., a question: Where is the outrage about the complicity of the U.S.? CNN reports, and this won't be the last we've heard.... Yes, this occurred under Clinton's watch, too. We can't be happy about that. But he wasn't the one guilty of gross hypocrisy on this issue by using it to undermine the authority of the U.N." Read more...
From CNN: "Documents obtained by CNN reveal the United States knew about, and even condoned, embargo-breaking oil sales by Saddam Hussein's regime, and did so to shore up alliances with Iraq's neighbors."
Zach at Burnt Orange Report comments on the United Nations commission investigating violence in Darfur: "Many prominent politicians and academics have condemned the U.N. commission for its refusal to brand the tragic events in Sudan as constituting genocide. Though I can understand their dismay, I feel that the U.N. commission made a wise, if not popular, decision."
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