RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events "It's not about oil or Iraq..."

The irony here, of course, is that it may have been about oil...for our so-called allies:

An independent commission will investigate allegations that United Nations staff collected millions of dollars in illegal profits from the program that allowed Iraq to sell some of its oil to pay for food during the years of economic sanctions.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced plans Friday for an independent commission that would go beyond an internal United Nations probe of alleged corruption and mismanagement in the oil-for-food program.

U.S. congressional investigators have also looked into the program, charging this week that Saddam Hussein's government smuggled oil, added surcharges and collected kickbacks to rake in $10.1 billion in violation of the United Nations' oil-for-food program.