The Next time you hear about Saddam and "Oil for Food" etc.

"Oil for Food", the matter which so many Bush apologists cling to for justifying Bush's incredibly stupid war.

I guess "the War on Fraud" while not much of a war cry, would have some logical validity, where it not starring Halliburton.

Oil for Food is, and always has been, a huge piece of rather inarticulate sophistry -- so naturally it is trotted out repeatedly. Never mind the nearly 9 Billion that up and went *POOF* in Iraq.

And never mind this...

American contractors swindled hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraqi funds, but so far there is no way for Iraq's government to recoup the money, according to US investigators and civil attorneys tracking fraud claims against contractors...

...A US law that allows citizens to recover money from dishonest contractors protects only the US government, not foreign governments.

In addition, an Iraqi law created by the Coalition Provisional Authority days before it ceded sovereignty to Iraq in June 2004 gives American contractors immunity from prosecution in Iraq.

''In effect, it makes Iraq into a 'free-fraud zone,' " said Alan Grayson, a Virginia attorney who is suing the private security firm Custer Battles in a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by former employees. A federal jury last month found the Rhode Island-based company liable for $3 million in fraudulent billings in Iraq...

I guess not enough of that money went into flowers & sweets.