Just when I'd begun examining my colorful indictment of the United Nations, more news of the Oil-for-Food scam poured right in, and its reasons were again clear. Glenn Reynolds is rounding up leads, including a second blogger's bundle of British headlines on the high-profit torment of Iraq's people. This is what the "united" opposition to Iraq's liberation has to offer (emphasis mine):

To the outsider, it is hard to see what could link the former French interior minister, Charles Pasqua, with President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia, the Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovksy and Benon Sevan, the United Nations official in charge of the oil-for-food programme. According to testimony presented to the House of Representatives committee on government reform this week, here is one link for starters: they appear on a list of 270 individuals and entities named in Iraqi oil ministry files as receiving vouchers allowing them to buy millions of barrels of oil.

...Most worrying for the UN is the entry for Panama, a Mr Sevan. The US Congress was told this week that that refers to Benon Sevan, the UN official in charge of the programme.

The phrase "fox guarding the henhouse" has such a potential overapplication to this travesty that we'll need to lock it up in cold storage when the investigation is over. Yes, there was some misleading in the months before we went to war. But not from the White House. Henceforth, whenever the countries and institutions to which these high-ranking officials belong oppose the United States, we ought to ask: How much money do they stand to lose?