対イラク武力行使

についても、知らん顔してる人のために、新情報。８月１３日付けのニューヨークタイムスの記事。
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0913F93F5B0C708DDDA1 0894DC404482

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Since the fall of Mr. Hussein, the oil-for-food program has received far more scrutiny than it ever did during its six years of operation. Congress's Government Accountability Office, formerly the General Accounting Office, has estimated that the Iraqi leader siphoned at least $10 billion from the program by illicitly trading in oil and collecting kickbacks from companies that had United Nations approval to do business with Iraq. Multiple investigations now under way in Washington and Iraq and at the United Nations all center on one straightforward question: How did Mr. Hussein amass so much money while under international sanctions? An examination of the program, the largest in the United Nations' history, suggests an equally straightforward answer: The United Nations let him do it.

６年間のプログラムの間、フセインは食料を近隣諸国に売りさばいて６ビリオンドルを横領したとある。国連のリーダー達はしってて知らんフリをしていた。

"Everybody said it was a terrible shame and against international law, but there was really no enthusiasm to tackle it," said Peter van Walsum, a Dutch diplomat who headed the Iraq sanctions committee in 1999 and 2000, recalling the discussions of illegal oil surcharges. "We never had clear decisions on anything. So we just in effect condoned things."

ニューヨークタイムスはアメリカの新聞だが、ものすごいリベラルで反戦派。それがここまでいうとなるとすごいもんだわ。この記事には書かれてないが、後になってフランスを代表として国連のおえらがたがフセインから賄賂をもらって見て見ぬフリをしていたという事実もある。